Who would Jesus shoot? US military rifle sights inscribed with Bible references.

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The United States Air Force has been citing Christian teachings in its missile officer training sessions by referencing passages from the New Testament, according to recently released documents under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

Reports show the mandatory Nuclear Ethics and Nuclear Warfare session, which takes place during a missile officer’s first week in training, is led by Air Force chaplains and includes a discussion on St. Augustine’s Christian “Just War Theory.” Also included in the PowerPoint presentation is a slide containing a passage from the Book of Revelation that attempts to explain how Jesus Christ, as the “mighty warrior,” believed war to be “just.”

The presentation goes on to say that there are “many examples of believers [who] engaged in wars in [the] Old Testament” in a “righteous way” and notes there is “no pacifistic sentiment in mainstream Jewish history.”

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), an advocacy group that watches for signs of religious bias in the military, said more than thirty Air Force officers, a majority of whom describe themselves as practicing Protestants and Roman Catholics, have contacted their group in hopes of working together to have the Christian-themed teachings removed from the Nuclear Ethics and Nuclear Warfare training session.

The [url=http://www.centerforinquiry.net/news/cfi_condemns_use_of_religious_mater... for Inquiry[/url], which wrote the above, apparently has nothing to say about the morality of war; they seem to object only to the use of religious doctrine to justify it. They'd probably be happy if quotes from Christopher Hitchens were used instead.

The linked material obtained under Freedom of Information is quite interesting. The US military is quite concerned to make sure that their soldiers' moral conscience won't get in the way of using weapons of mass destruction. The important thing is to believe in "the mission". This makes it impossible for anyone to maintain that "supporting the troops" is different from "supporting the mission".

[url=http://www.centerforinquiry.net/opp/blog/air_force_pulls_christian-theme... Force Pulls Christian-Themed Nuclear Ethics Training Session[/url]

The Center for Inquiry is delighted that the indoctrination of Air Force officers as psychotic killers will continue without reference to religious doctrine.

LOL, oh yeah, I'm going to enjoy this thread. The code is utterly meaningless; most US soldiers are clueless about bible verse numbering or whatever you call it and could give a fuck about it. The only people that would care about this stuff are the idiot evangelicals that put the stuff on the sights and the people that want to cry about it because it supports some agenda of theirs. So grab the ball and run with it guys... But be careful, maybe JEEEsus will smite you with a fart induced fire ball from his ass or better yet a 7.62 bullet fired from a magical scoped weapon... Ha Ha Ha

Bec you are nasty in your defence of the indefensible. Attacking people for pointing out the outrageous is hardly talking about an issue from a progressive point of view.  

You may find the Xian influence over the largest and best financed imperial army a joke but I am sure it is not to any of the families of the people being murdered daily by American assholes.  

Bec wrote:

are the idiot evangelicals that put the stuff on the sights and the people that want to cry about it because it supports some agenda of theirs.

So what exactly does what soldiers think or don't think have to do with this thread again?  I thought it was about the intentions of the people doing it.  I don't believe anyone here every said all soldiers believe it.  Just another red herring combined with an insult. 

I'm not sure why anyone finds this surprising.  After all, there are plenty of sites that sell gun oil made with bacon fat.  They've been around for a long time.