{"id":235,"date":"2008-09-18T12:31:44","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T19:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=235"},"modified":"2009-11-21T21:34:27","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T05:34:27","slug":"gen-richardson-on-combat-chaplains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/18\/gen-richardson-on-combat-chaplains\/","title":{"rendered":"Gen. Richardson on &#8220;Combat Chaplains&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting Air Force <a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123115570\">release<\/a> on Maj. Gen. Cecil Richardson, Air Force chief of chaplains, notes his recent presentation on &#8220;combat Chaplains.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He notes that<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>military chaplains are working hard in deployed environments to help ensure servicemembers have their <em>constitutional right to worship God in their own way<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In response to a question of\u00a0whether Chaplains are &#8220;anti-war&#8221;:\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Chaplain Richardson said chaplains, like all military members, are anti-war, just like all firefighters are anti-fire and all police are anti-crime.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But in a fallen world, sometimes fire happens, and thank God for the wonderful firemen,&#8221; Chaplain Richardson said. &#8220;Sometimes crime happens, and we need the police. Sometimes you have a war and need people to stand up and defend our country against those who would do harm to innocent people.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting Air Force release on Maj. Gen. Cecil Richardson, Air Force chief of chaplains, notes his recent presentation on &#8220;combat Chaplains.&#8221; He notes that military chaplains are working hard in deployed environments to help ensure servicemembers have their constitutional right to worship God in their own way In response to a question of\u00a0whether Chaplains are &#8220;anti-war&#8221;:\u00a0 Chaplain Richardson said [&#8230;]<\/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":[2,10],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-military","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","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=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}