A US Army recruiting post in Phoenix, Arizona, removed a sign with “On a mission for God and country” tag line after a media inquiry.

The poster, which features a Special Forces patch along with Ranger, Airborne and Special Forces tabs, includes “a stock image” the command makes available for local recruiters, spokesman Brian Lepley said in an email, “but the text was changed by the local recruiting personnel” and not cleared by command headquarters.

That’s really about it. The poster could have said “For Mom and Apple Pie” and also would have been removed if the customized official sign had not gone through the proper approval process.

According to Michael “Mikey” Weinstein, though, the US Army was caught in an open attempt to recruit Christians to violently take over the country. Seriously.  In response to the poster, Weinstein says:

[T]here exists a brutal, sectarian, Christian fundamentalist reign exercised within the United States Armed Forces, constituting a de facto Dominionist fifth column. In fact, it’s often so brazen that it’s not even very “fifth columny” anymore.

Since the reason for the sign on the sidewalk was to get Christians to take over the world, Weinstein understandably wants retribution:

Whoever, in any way, shape or form, allowed that poster to be designed, prepared and displayed, those individuals should be aggressively investigated and very visibly punished.

Weinstein wrote a 1,500 word screed that defies sanity. Nothing is unconstitutional about that recruiting poster. For that matter, nothing is even “sectarian” about it, despite Weinstein’s vivid imagination and machinations to the contrary.

Interestingly, Weinstein claimed credit for ending this sidewalk-based threat to national security (saying he “caused [its] removal”), but the Army Times said the sign came down after their inquiry, a day after Weinstein publicized his gentle monologue. It would seem Weinstein may have lost some direct influence with some Army channels.

To the point, many people join the US military to serve both their God and their country — and it isn’t just chaplains who do so. Just one day before Weinstein’s acerbic diatribe, the Christian Examiner published an article entitled “God and country – and baptism – are  a part of Christians’ military service,” noting the faith of American troops.  It is probably an apt tagline for a recruiting poster, though the sign itself may not have been properly approved.

Mikey Weinstein isn’t on a mission to enforce poster regulations in Army recruiting stations, though. Mikey Weinstein is on a mission against Christians in the US military.

Consider: Mikey Weinstein honestly believes the Army poster was part of an attempt by Christians to take over the world — all part of a “war” he thinks US Christians want to wage to bring on a second Holocaust.

Despite the weak grasp on reality, it is a conspiracy theory that brought in more than $700,000 in “charitable donations” to Weinstein in 2013.

Sane or not, it seems to pay well.

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