{"id":27678,"date":"2013-12-26T03:19:01","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T06:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=27678"},"modified":"2016-11-26T00:05:13","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T03:05:13","slug":"former-rep-allen-west-on-mikey-weinstein-nativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/26\/former-rep-allen-west-on-mikey-weinstein-nativity\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Rep Allen West on Mikey Weinstein, Nativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Allen West, former Congressman and retired US Army LtCol, wrote that <a href=\"http:\/\/allenbwest.com\/2013\/12\/video-military-buckles-nativity-scene-gitmo\/#IGMrSsiH2240TBZw.99\">the military &#8220;buckle[d]&#8221; to Michael &#8220;Mikey&#8221; Weinstein<\/a> when it removed the Nativities from the Guantanamo chow halls.\u00a0 West would have responded in a way many in the military probably would have [emphasis added]:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The US military in which I served would have told someone like Weinstein to simply go \u201cpound sand&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I want to make sure you know exactly how dangerous this Mr. Weinstein truly is. He has referred to <strong>individuals who profess their faith as committing acts of sedition<\/strong>. He has taken it upon himself to <strong>attack any religious symbols or references in the US military<\/strong> \u2014 and recently had the words \u201cunder God\u201d removed from the US Air Force Academy honor oath \u2013 from where he graduated, by the way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Weinstein <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/28\/usafa-says-so-help-me-god-is-optional\/\">didn&#8217;t have the phrase<\/a> &#8220;so help me God&#8221; (not &#8220;under God&#8221;) <em>removed<\/em>, but that conversation is misunderstood by almost everyone who talks about it, including Weinstein&#8217;s own supporters.<\/p>\n<p>LtCol West becomes one of the few to see <!--more-->what Weinstein&#8217;s actions indicate he&#8217;s really up to, and raise the flag, again, about why the US military listens to him at all:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Weinstein&#8217;s] actual objective is the elimination of America\u2019s Judeo-Christian faith heritage and its connection to military service.<\/p>\n<p>What is ultimately disturbing is that the Obama administration\u2019s Department of Defense has provided this <strong>vile, delusional individual access to the Pentagon<\/strong> and allowed him to infiltrate its decision-making process.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When a man who claims to <em>defend<\/em> religious freedom cites the forced removal of a Nativity scene as one of his proud accomplishments, he likely either has mental issues or he&#8217;s being intentionally devious.<\/p>\n<p>Which do <em>you<\/em> figure?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizpacreview.com\/2013\/12\/22\/former-colonel-allen-west-replies-to-pentagons-sudden-anti-christian-stance-89856\">BizPac Review<\/a>.<\/span><\/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>Allen West, former Congressman and retired US Army LtCol, wrote that the military &#8220;buckle[d]&#8221; to Michael &#8220;Mikey&#8221; Weinstein when it removed the Nativities from the Guantanamo chow halls.\u00a0 West would have responded in a way many in the military probably would have [emphasis added]: The US military in which I served would have told someone like Weinstein to simply go [&#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":[2613,88,2567,85,2,5218,7,1235,10,171],"class_list":["post-27678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-allen-west","tag-army","tag-guantanamo","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-nativity","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27678","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=27678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}