{"id":10110,"date":"2011-03-11T03:00:22","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T08:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=10110"},"modified":"2015-06-27T19:15:26","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T22:15:26","slug":"can-atheist-rock-beyond-belief-meet-army-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/11\/can-atheist-rock-beyond-belief-meet-army-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Atheist Rock Beyond Belief meet Army Restrictions?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The truth of the US Army’s equitable treatment of “Rock Beyond Belief” has already been\u00a0addressed<\/a>.\u00a0 Oddly, though, many people don’t know that RBB may not be able to meet the restrictions imposed upon it by the Army even if it does<\/em> find the funding it needs to proceed.<\/p>\n

What restrictions are those?\u00a0 Well, the same ones put on the Christian “Rock the Fort,” of course:\u00a0 Content<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Unnoticed by many has been the fact Fort Bragg restricted the content <\/em>at “Rock the Fort.”\u00a0 As noted in the After Action Report:<\/p>\n

The bands and speakers stayed within the parameters that we gave them as directed by LTG Helmick, “in other words keep it low key…share encouraging music and a gospel message with no statements that are critical of other religions<\/em>.” (emphasis added)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Shockingly,\u00a0no one\u00a0complained\u00a0about the US military restricting the religious speech at what religious freedom critic\u00a0Michael Weinstein described as a “Christian orgy.”<\/a><\/p>\n

As previously noted, “Rock Beyond Belief” invited Michael Weinstein and Richard Dawkins to speak, two men who make their livings<\/em> being “critical of other religions.”\u00a0 Invited musical guests also have a history of similar criticism.\u00a0 Does anyone really expect they could fill a stage for 8 hours with people whose lives revolve around attacking religion and meet such a stringent requirement?<\/p>\n

The “shock” expressed above is, of course, facetious.\u00a0 Michael Weinstein tries to convince unsuspecting people that Christians are trying to take over the government, saying Christians will stop at nothing to assert their “supremacy,” trampling on other religions along the way.<\/p>\n

The truth<\/em> is Christians often walk on eggshells — and follow rules and restrictions some might be surprised to learn about, as above — because they value their own<\/em> religious freedom and respect<\/em> that of others’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The truth of the US Army’s equitable treatment of “Rock Beyond Belief” has already been\u00a0addressed.\u00a0 Oddly, though, many people don’t know that RBB may not be able to meet the restrictions imposed upon it by the Army even if it does find the funding it needs to proceed. What restrictions are those?\u00a0 Well, the same ones put on the Christian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[88,20,5284,96,4,82,85,2,5218,7,17,10,171,1126],"class_list":["post-10110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-army","tag-atheism","tag-chaplain","tag-christian","tag-churchandstate","tag-constitution","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-rock-beyond-belief"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}