{"id":1159,"date":"2009-09-14T00:30:37","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T04:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=1159"},"modified":"2013-09-24T21:09:51","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T00:09:51","slug":"chaplain-should-search-the-bible-not-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/14\/chaplain-should-search-the-bible-not-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaplain Should Search the Bible, not Google"},"content":{"rendered":"

An interesting letter to the editor was written to the Stars and Stripes<\/a><\/em> by a Staff Sergeant in Afghanistan:<\/p>\n

“Run both sides of gay issue”\u00a0was shocking for me as a Christian who reads and follows the Bible.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

As a chaplain, the writer should know that you don\u2019t use Google for answers pertaining to homosexuality. That topic is covered in the Bible in black and white so that there is no confusion. The Google search engine is simply a worldly creation separated from the word of God. To suggest that it\u2019s OK to search the world (Google) for your answers is setting a bad example.<\/p>\n

The Bible is, and has always been, enough information to be successful in life. It has been around before Google and will remain after Google has disappeared.<\/p>\n

Please print this so that all God\u2019s followers know that we\u2019re still out here.<\/p>\n

Staff Sgt. Matthew Shoemaker
\nAfghanistan<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As the letter<\/a> notes, he was responding to a “letter to the editor” from a Chaplain<\/a>, who had previously cited a homosexual magazine to raise doubts about\u00a0the “healthiness” of the homosexual lifestyle.\u00a0 Regrettably, the Staff Sergeant appears to have misunderstood the Chaplain’s point, or at least the means he used to make it.<\/p>\n

Still, it is interesting to note the boldness with which the Staff Sergeant proclaims the profitability of the Bible.\u00a0His call to let “all God’s followers know that we’re still out here” also reveals an apparent belief that while followers of God may be dismissed by many, they are still quite present and engaged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An interesting letter to the editor was written to the Stars and Stripes by a Staff Sergeant in Afghanistan: “Run both sides of gay issue”\u00a0was shocking for me as a Christian who reads and follows the Bible.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[58,23,4,2,17,10],"class_list":["post-1159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-living","tag-afghanistan","tag-bible","tag-churchandstate","tag-military","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159","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=1159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}