{"id":17940,"date":"2012-05-30T01:22:49","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T04:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=17940"},"modified":"2015-06-27T19:13:16","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T22:13:16","slug":"here-i-am-lord-the-bible-as-literature-and-the-us-air-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/30\/here-i-am-lord-the-bible-as-literature-and-the-us-air-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Here I am, Lord: The Bible as Literature and the US Air Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A US Army article previously described an effort to help the Afghans by &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/01\/swords-and-plowshares-the-bible-as-literature-and-the-us-army\/\">turning swords into plowshares<\/a>,&#8221; a potentially inadvertent reference to Isaiah 2:4.\u00a0 While the text of the Bible is not as well-known as it may have once been, it is interesting to see where the American culture makes (even unknowing) Biblical references.<\/p>\n<p>The US Air Force leadership did it recently, too, in their annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123302580\">Memorial Day message<\/a>.\u00a0 Secretary of the Air Force Michael Donley and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen Norton Schwartz wrote:\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As we remember our fallen, captured, or missing service men and women, we also express our deep gratitude to those who are currently defending our Nation&#8230;The men and women who answered the call by saying, &#8220;Send me,&#8221; truly exemplify Service before Self.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That appears to be an allusion to Isaiah 6:8:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, &#8220;Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?&#8221; And I said, &#8220;Here am I. Send me!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The President&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/28\/honor-their-memory-this-memorial-day-2012\/\">proclamation for Memorial Day<\/a> had a similar, though more subtle, reference.<\/p>\n<p>The Word of God contains truth and light &#8212; and also some good ideas for motivational messages, even if the authors sometimes don&#8217;t remember where they heard that story&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US Army article previously described an effort to help the Afghans by &#8220;turning swords into plowshares,&#8221; a potentially inadvertent reference to Isaiah 2:4.\u00a0 While the text of the Bible is not as well-known as it may have once been, it is interesting to see where the American culture makes (even unknowing) Biblical references. The US Air Force leadership did [&#8230;]<\/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":[58,134,894,88,23,96,3297,1058,85,2,5218,7,497,2832,230],"class_list":["post-17940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-afghanistan","tag-air-force","tag-al-qaeda","tag-army","tag-bible","tag-christian","tag-isa","tag-michael-donley","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-norton-schwartz","tag-swords-into-plowshares","tag-taliban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17940","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=17940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}