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donsu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-13-05 01:12 PM
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the stain on our Air Force Academy

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/11/AR2005111101650.html

Group Trains Air Force Cadets to Proselytize

A private missionary group has assigned a pair of full-time Christian ministers to the U.S. Air Force Academy, where they are training cadets to evangelize among their peers, according to a confidential letter to supporters.

The letter makes clear that the organized evangelization effort has continued this year despite an outcry over alleged proselytizing at the academy that has prompted a Pentagon investigation, congressional hearings, a civil lawsuit and new Air Force guidelines on religion.

"Praise God that we have been allowed access by the Academy into the cadet areas to minister among the cadets. We have recently been given an unused classroom to meet with cadets at any time during the day," the husband-and-wife team of Darren and Gina Lindblom said in the Oct. 11 letter to their donors.

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"The only group that gets 24/7 unrestricted access to cadets is this fundamentalist, born-again Christian group," Weinstein charged.
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like the insane woman on Trading Spouses thinking of herself as a god warrior; these people think and say:

"we are vitally aware we are in the front lines of a spiritual battle."

just like the criminal bushgang; let the religiously insane get a toe in your door, you got trouble.

the Air Force Academy has trouble.
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glitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-13-05 01:18 PM
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1. You have to have to make them nuts, or they won't participate in Shock 'n
Awe.

They've had trouble for years, finally the symptoms are manifesting overtly. That's a good thing, it's their only chance for a cure.
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-13-05 01:21 PM
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2. Hmm clearly against USDOD regulations
not that Rummy will take action... but am just saying
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