{"id":11722,"date":"2011-07-08T03:00:07","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T08:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=11722"},"modified":"2011-07-08T00:32:22","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T05:32:22","slug":"military-chief-faces-criticism-over-role-of-god-in-military-funerals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/08\/military-chief-faces-criticism-over-role-of-god-in-military-funerals\/","title":{"rendered":"Military Chief Faces Criticism over Role of God in Military Funerals"},"content":{"rendered":"

The head of the armed forces is embroiled in a controversy over the proper place of “God” in military funeral rites<\/a> — but its likely not the problem you think.<\/p>\n

The Israeli military is embroiled in a public battle over whether God ought to be mentioned at memorial rites for fallen soldiers…<\/p>\n

The controversy is over whether Yizkor, the Hebrew prayer of remembrance, should begin at military ceremonies with the words “May God remember” or “May the people of Israel remember.”<\/p>\n

Military policy calls for the version mentioning God to be used, but enforcement has been patchy in an apparent nod to the sentiments of the Jewish state’s secular majority.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is a seemingly odd controversy for a nation that is often assumed to be religious in some form.<\/p>\n

Back home in the US, the Department of Veterans’ Affairs in Texas is being accused of censoring “God” and “Jesus”<\/a> from funeral prayers:<\/p>\n

Three organizations — the Veterans of Foreign Wars, The American Legion and the National Memorial Ladies — allege that the cemetery’s director and other government officials have created “religious hostility” at the cemetery and are violating the First Amendment.<\/p>\n

According to court documents filed this week in federal court, the cemetery’s director, Arleen Ocasio, has banned saying “God” at funerals and requires prayers be submitted in advance for government approval, MyFoxHouston.com reports.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Texas has recently seen one case won on the side of religious freedom<\/a>, with a court saying the government cannot be in the business of dictating the content of its citizens’ prayers.<\/p>\n

It would seem the controversy spans oceans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The head of the armed forces is embroiled in a controversy over the proper place of “God” in military funeral rites — but its likely not the problem you think. The Israeli military is embroiled in a public battle over whether God ought to be mentioned at memorial rites for fallen soldiers… The controversy is over whether Yizkor, the Hebrew […]<\/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":[1877,96,4,82,1876,888,39,2,11,17,10,171,1813],"class_list":["post-11722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-arleen-ocasio","tag-christian","tag-churchandstate","tag-constitution","tag-hebrew","tag-israel","tag-jewish","tag-military","tag-prayer","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-veterans-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11722","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=11722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}