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Zorra

(27,670 posts)
8. Bwahaa! We should take up a collection for economy flights, and send Betrayus and his corporate pals
Fri Sep 26, 2014, 12:42 PM
Sep 2014

on a crusade to wherever they want so they can put their $50,000 shagreen leather boots on the ground, and engage "the infidel" on a mission to kill for Jesus!


Hey General Petraeus, How's That 'Spiritual Fitness' Stuff Working For You?

I hate hypocrites. And the first word that came to mind when I heard about David Petraeus's extramarital affair was "hypocrite."

One of the big issues we've been dealing with for several years at the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) is the military's push to make our troops "spiritually fit." There's the mandatory Army-wide "Spiritual Fitness" test, spiritual fitness concerts, spiritual fitness centers, and lots of other spiritual fitness events and programs to keep our military "spiritual." But while the military insists that "spiritual fitness" does not mean religion, it does. All of this spiritual fitness stuff, which the military spares no expense on, is just a cover to push religion, and particularly evangelical Christianity. The spiritual fitness concerts always have evangelical Christian performers and most of the Army's Strong Bonds events are really just evangelical Christian retreats.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-rodda/hey-general-petraeus-hows_b_2122699.html

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