“Hunt People for Jesus”

Snipped from Al Jazeera via HuffingtonPost.com.

I don’t have time to write in length about this atrocity, but then again, I don’t think I need to. If you are unsure of the problem presented in this video, then you need to read part of the first amendment starting with the separation of church and State. The issue here is the United States of American “shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion … ” So, what are official government issue servicemen representing the USA proselytizing the Afghani Muslims?

Here is a small portion of the article:

A U.S. church raised money to send Bibles, printed in the Pashtu and Dari languages, to American soldiers stationed in Afghanistan, a report on Al Jazeera documented Sunday night.

It is against military rules to proselytize — a regulation one of the soldiers filmed by the network readily acknowledged. “You cannot proselytize, but you can give gifts,” says the soldier. It is a crime in Afghanistan to attempt to convert anyone from Islam to any other religion. “I also want to praise God because my church collected some money to get Bibles for Afghanistan. They came and sent the money out.” The footage is said to be roughly a year old.
The Al Jazeera report also shows a military preacher urging army parishioners to “hunt people for Jesus.”

UPDATE: It seems as though the bibles have been confiscated, but I am sure the desire to convert those damn heathens still burns bright in the minds of our religious right.

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