{"id":19821,"date":"2012-10-09T01:45:26","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T04:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=19821"},"modified":"2015-06-27T19:12:58","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T22:12:58","slug":"airmans-bible-controversy-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/09\/airmans-bible-controversy-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Airman&#8217;s Bible Controversy Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/images\/holman3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"467\" height=\"322\" \/>One of these Bibles has been declared a &#8220;national security threat.&#8221;\u00a0 Can you guess which one?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The controversy over <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/18\/michael-weinstein-targets-evangelicals-in-fishing-for-bibles-part-2\/\">Michael Weinstein&#8217;s assertion<\/a> that a Bible was a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/radio.foxnews.com\/toddstarnes\/top-stories\/group-calls-military-bibles-threat-to-national-security.html\">national security threat<\/a>&#8221; doesn&#8217;t seem to have abated even with their dwindling supply.\u00a0 From the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/2012\/10\/air-force-airmans-bible-controversy-100812w\/\">Air Force Times<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Air Force Sergeants Association CEO John \u201cDoc\u201d McCauslin said the Defense Department allows each service\u2019s insignia to be <!--more-->emblazoned on everything from trailer hitches to water bottles, and he questions what he sees as a restriction specifically for the Bible and, by extension, Christians&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Further,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Capt. Mark Hunsinger, chaplain with the 11th Wing at Joint Base Andrews, Md., urged congregants in an email to make their voices heard \u201cconcerning the religious liberty issues \u2026 removal of bibles from military treatment facilities and discontinuing selling bibles in the [base exchange] with DoD insignia on it\u201d by contacting members of Congress.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Congress <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/25\/congress-chides-dod-on-response-to-frivolous-complaints\/\">already weighed in<\/a> as well.\u00a0 The topic of the Holman Bible has been <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/18\/michael-weinstein-targets-evangelicals-in-fishing-for-bibles-part-2\/\">discussed at length<\/a>.\u00a0 It resulted in an interesting look at yet another example of the MRFF &#8212; as voiced by Michael Weinstein and Chris Rodda &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/10\/chris-rodda-shows-mrff-opposition-to-wrong-kind-of-christians\/\">targeting the specific religious beliefs<\/a> of military members.\u00a0 So much for &#8220;religious freedom.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of these Bibles has been declared a &#8220;national security threat.&#8221;\u00a0 Can you guess which one? 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