{"id":227,"date":"2008-08-21T16:41:36","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T23:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=227"},"modified":"2015-06-27T19:16:55","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T22:16:55","slug":"under-orders-under-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/21\/under-orders-under-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"“Under Orders” Under Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chaplain Bill McCoy, author of Under Orders<\/em>, now finds himself backtracking from the publication of an endorsement by General Petraeus on the cover of his book.\u00a0 According to various press reports<\/a>, he now says the endorsement, as well as that of another General,<\/p>\n

were intended for me personally rather than for the general public<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Under Orders<\/em> was reviewed here<\/a>\u00a0six months ago, and the Chaplain even responded to defend his book at the time.<\/p>\n

In typical fashion, Michael Weinstein has said this, like everything else, will be incorporated into the MRFF’s ongoing lawsuit.\u00a0\u00a0 He is calling for Petraeus’ court martial and dismissal.\u00a0\u00a0Weinstein also said<\/p>\n

General Petraeus has, by his own hand, become a quintessential poster child of this fundamentalist Christian religious predation, via his unadulterated and shocking public endorsement of a book touting both Christian supremacy and exceptionalism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The irony is that McCoy’s book is far from fundamental (as is his endorsing denomination), which was part of the reason his book was negatively reviewed here<\/a>.\u00a0 From the previous review:<\/p>\n

Chaplain McCoy\u2026advocates spirituality above Christianity…and said that “Christ came into the world so that people could be saved from being redundant and meaningless…”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Perhaps the greatest irony is that the MRFF actually said that the book was “pretty good.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chaplain Bill McCoy, author of Under Orders, now finds himself backtracking from the publication of an endorsement by General Petraeus on the cover of his book.\u00a0 According to various press reports, he now says the endorsement, as well as that of another General, were intended for me personally rather than for the general public Under Orders was reviewed here\u00a0six months […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4,2,5218,7,10],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-churchandstate","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","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=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}