{"id":1554,"date":"2009-10-23T00:25:24","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T07:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=1554"},"modified":"2009-10-24T18:10:03","modified_gmt":"2009-10-25T01:10:03","slug":"uniforms-and-weapons-in-religious-ceremonies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/23\/uniforms-and-weapons-in-religious-ceremonies\/","title":{"rendered":"Uniforms and Weapons in Religious Ceremonies"},"content":{"rendered":"

The sensitivities of religion, military uniforms, and weapons have frequently made for controversial accusations.\u00a0 A few months ago, al Jazeera used creative cuts in a video of a Chaplain to imply that he was wearing a sidearm<\/a>. (Though he wasn’t, others in the congregation may very well have been.)\u00a0 When Christian basic trainees were photographed with their weapons during religious services, they\u00a0were decried as morally equivalent to Islamic suicide bombers.<\/p>\n

The apparent accusation is that American servicemembers should not be permitted to intermingle their uniforms, weapons, and religion.\u00a0 Notably, that accusation has been applied\u00a0only to\u00a0Christians.\u00a0 Other\u00a0ideological adherents have been photographed in uniform with their weapons without complaint.<\/p>\n

The military requirements, however,\u00a0are far more pragmatic:\u00a0<\/p>\n

During an evening in late May, the Soldiers attending a small service held by a visiting chaplain heard an explosion and felt the small, recreational building shaking. Believing they were under attack, the troops ran out of the service, wielding their weapons and ready to fight.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While the “attack” in this case<\/a> turned out to be a benign\u00a0bomb drop outside the wire, the point is well made.\u00a0 There’s a reason basic trainees are required to carry their weapons everywhere they go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The sensitivities of religion, military uniforms, and weapons have frequently made for controversial accusations.\u00a0 A few months ago, al Jazeera used creative cuts in a video of a Chaplain to imply that he was wearing a sidearm. (Though he wasn’t, others in the congregation may very well have been.)\u00a0 When Christian basic trainees were photographed with their weapons during religious […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[58,64,4,2,11,17,10],"class_list":["post-1554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-regulations","tag-afghanistan","tag-al-jazeera","tag-churchandstate","tag-military","tag-prayer","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554","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=1554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}