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In reply to the discussion: 'Unprecedented public attack': Widespread shock as Trump blasts the Pentagon -- from the White House [View all]Tommymac
(7,334 posts)68. Don't forget the reported large minority of Dominist's in the higher ranks especially the Air Force.
https://www.newsweek.com/christian-fundamentalists-us-armed-forces-national-security-threat-613428
Trump Effect Inspires Radical Christians in Military
BY NINA BURLEIGH ON 5/22/17 AT 1:15 PM EDT
Trump Effect Inspires Radical Christians in Military
BY NINA BURLEIGH ON 5/22/17 AT 1:15 PM EDT
Fundamentalist views are decidedly in the minority in the general population, but they have adherents in some of the U.S. military's most powerful positions, especially in and around Washington, D.C., and in Colorado Springs, home of the U.S. Air Force Academy and the nation's nuclear command center.
The U.S. military has long been seeded with radical Christian fundamentalistssometimes called Christian Dominionists or Christian Reconstructionistswho believe a "Warrior Jesus" has their backs while they fight against Islam. They believe they are establishing a "Kingdom of God" on earth, starting with the United States, and are predictably anti-LGBT and unfriendly to females among their ranks.
The U.S. military has long been seeded with radical Christian fundamentalistssometimes called Christian Dominionists or Christian Reconstructionistswho believe a "Warrior Jesus" has their backs while they fight against Islam. They believe they are establishing a "Kingdom of God" on earth, starting with the United States, and are predictably anti-LGBT and unfriendly to females among their ranks.
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'Unprecedented public attack': Widespread shock as Trump blasts the Pentagon -- from the White House [View all]
Lunabell
Sep 2020
OP
needlessly waging wars? Military doesn't start wars, politicians do. Rumpie is so stupid.
KS Toronado
Sep 2020
#56
A pre-emptive strike by Trump so as to hold any future revelations of Trumps unfitness
OAITW r.2.0
Sep 2020
#15
This tells me that some of the people who gave the Atlantic the story about Trump calling KIA vets..
Botany
Sep 2020
#6
BTW Trump going on and on about the MIC (military industrial complex) is pure bull shit
Botany
Sep 2020
#78
Don't forget the reported large minority of Dominist's in the higher ranks especially the Air Force.
Tommymac
Sep 2020
#68
I ALWAYS listen closely to Gen. Clark when he's on tv. So clear thinking, good at communication.
Karadeniz
Sep 2020
#76
yeah trashing BLM and kids in cages social security misogyny etc no you won't fool us
mucifer
Sep 2020
#49
"One cold-hearted globalist betrayal after another, that's what it was," the president says in talki
riversedge
Sep 2020
#38
Defense Sec Esper's previous job: VP for govt relations at defense contractor Raytheon
muriel_volestrangler
Sep 2020
#39
He doesn't give a shit about the wall. That is nothing but a diversion, a shiny object to focus on
not_the_one
Sep 2020
#75