{"id":23473,"date":"2013-06-25T00:38:54","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T03:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=23473"},"modified":"2016-11-26T01:24:05","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T04:24:05","slug":"air-force-removes-video-because-it-references-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/25\/air-force-removes-video-because-it-references-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force Removes Video Because it References God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A1thcpV1YzA\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/radio.foxnews.com\/toddstarnes\/top-stories\/air-force-removes-video-that-mentions-god.html\">noted at FoxNews<\/a>, the Air Force censored a video called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/A1thcpV1YzA\">God Created a First Sergeant<\/a>,&#8221; which was based on the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/AMpZ0TGjbWE\">God Made a Farmer<\/a>&#8221; Super Bowl commercial.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cProliferation of religion is not allowed in the Air Force or military,\u201d wrote the chief of the Air Force News Service Division in an email obtained by Fox News. \u201cHow would an Agnostic, Atheist or Muslim <!--more-->serving in the military take this video?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe choice of \u2018On the Eighth day\u2019 verbiage to begin this video is highly suggestive from the book of Genesis in the Bible and has Christian overtones,\u201d he wrote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The quoted chief is entitled to his opinion, but he\u00a0appears to be factually challenged.\u00a0 The creation verbiage is shared by all three Abrahamic religions; it is not a &#8220;Christian overtone.&#8221;\u00a0 Even so, the riff on the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/So_God_Made_a_Farmer\">1978 Paul Harvey speech<\/a>\u00a0neither endorses nor favors a particular religion or belief, nor does it disrespect others.\u00a0 The text itself isn&#8217;t even <em>religious<\/em>, beyond the repetition of the phrase &#8220;God created&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Air Force&#8217;s official statement said it was pulled to review whether it was religiously neutral.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe Air Force removed the \u2018God Created a First Sergeant\u2019 video from the official <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jointbasemdl.af.mil\/\">Joint Base McGuire Dix<\/a> YouTube site to evaluate whether it is consistent with official Air Force guidance, to include whether it meets official guidance governing religious neutrality in the Air Force as prescribed in Air Force Instruction 1-1, Air Force Culture,\u201d spokesperson Ann Stefanek said in a statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is not the first time AFI 1-1 has been cited to restrict something that might be perceived as remotely religious.\u00a0 Interestingly, some have forgotten that AFI 1-1 also says Airmen should &#8220;confidently practice [their] beliefs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The poem in the video was a positive, uplifting encouragement and endorsement of US Air Force First Sergeants, written by a chaplain.\u00a0 Can there really be something wrong with that?<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As noted at FoxNews, the Air Force censored a video called &#8220;God Created a First Sergeant,&#8221; which was based on the &#8220;God Made a Farmer&#8221; Super Bowl commercial. \u201cProliferation of religion is not allowed in the Air Force or military,\u201d wrote the chief of the Air Force News Service Division in an email obtained by Fox News. \u201cHow would an [&#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":[],"class_list":["post-23473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23473","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=23473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}