{"id":26385,"date":"2013-10-29T01:23:06","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T04:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=26385"},"modified":"2016-11-26T00:31:06","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T03:31:06","slug":"time-blog-misquotes-christianfighterpilot-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/29\/time-blog-misquotes-christianfighterpilot-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Blog Misquotes ChristianFighterPilot.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Thompson at Time Magazine&#8217;s &#8220;Swampland&#8221; blog has made an occasional\u00a0habit of bagging on the Air Force or US military.\u00a0 Yesterday, he recapped the USAFA &#8220;so help me God&#8221; Cadet Honor Oath issue in a somewhat <a href=\"http:\/\/swampland.time.com\/author\/mt53\/\">sarcastically tinged blog<\/a> noting<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>the Colorado Springs, Colo., academy has decided to make the \u201cso help me God\u201d coda to its cadet oath optional after a complaint from the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (not surprisingly, the <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/28\/usafa-says-so-help-me-god-is-optional\/\">Christian Fighter Pilot<\/a> group denounced what it calls a \u201cdramatic change\u201d on its website).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It would seem Thompson has become the latest &#8220;journalist&#8221; to fall victim to <!--more-->quoting something he didn&#8217;t actually <em>read<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>After pointing out that this website did not &#8220;denounce&#8221; the decision (in fact, quite the opposite) and that the &#8220;dramatic change&#8221; comment was clearly facetious, Thompson deleted the reference.<\/p>\n<p>Given that Thompson clearly didn&#8217;t read the article, one wonders how he came to the conclusion that it was\u00a0&#8220;not surprising[].&#8221;\u00a0 It&#8217;s almost as if he has preconceived notions about Christians in the military.<\/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>Mark Thompson at Time Magazine&#8217;s &#8220;Swampland&#8221; blog has made an occasional\u00a0habit of bagging on the Air Force or US military.\u00a0 Yesterday, he recapped the USAFA &#8220;so help me God&#8221; Cadet Honor Oath issue in a somewhat sarcastically tinged blog noting the Colorado Springs, Colo., academy has decided to make the \u201cso help me God\u201d coda to its cadet oath optional [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[4347,4372,85,5218,7,4357,4373,4374,65],"class_list":["post-26385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-honor-oath","tag-mark-thompson","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-so-help-me-god","tag-swampland","tag-time","tag-usafa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26385","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=26385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}