{"id":2866,"date":"2009-12-31T14:12:03","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T22:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=2866"},"modified":"2011-03-23T22:53:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T03:53:00","slug":"happy-new-year-2010-top-stories-for-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/31\/happy-new-year-2010-top-stories-for-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year, 2010: Top Stories for 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

A variety of websites that track issues of religion in the public sphere have listed their “top ten” stories for 2009.\u00a0 Though each uses their own criteria, the resulting lists generally matched the recent trend (as noted last year<\/a>) in which issues of religion and the military have largely disappeared from the “big stories” over the years.<\/p>\n

US News<\/em>\u00a0mentioned nothing about the military in their list<\/a>, nor did the Religion Clause<\/a>.\u00a0 BJC Online included a mention<\/a> about Sikhs and the military at #8 and accusations of military evangelism in “US Foreign Affairs” at #4.\u00a0 Of these, the Religion News Writers were the only ones to mention US Army Maj Hasan’s Fort Hood massacre <\/a>(#3).<\/p>\n

While ongoing events in the world will likely keep religion near the forefront of current affairs discussions, “controversies” over the interaction between religion and the military do not appear to be the “headlines” that some might think they are.\u00a0 The year 2009 may have borne that out.\u00a0 Some of the “biggest” stories on the military and religion were actually non-events, including accusations of Bible distribution in Afghanistan<\/a> or the plethora of complaints that Chaplains acted\u00a0illegally or unConstitutionally.<\/p>\n

There will always\u00a0be controversies and\u00a0media attention.\u00a0 Still,\u00a0the belief\u00a0that some accusations of impropriety are\u00a0“tempests in a teapot” may be correct.\u00a0 Perhaps, too, claims of surreptitious military takeovers by religions seeking\u00a0world domination really are the fringe conspiracy theories they often seem to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A variety of websites that track issues of religion in the public sphere have listed their “top ten” stories for 2009.\u00a0 Though each uses their own criteria, the resulting lists generally matched the recent trend (as noted last year) in which issues of religion and the military have largely disappeared from the “big stories” over the years. US News\u00a0mentioned nothing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[58,88,23,4,1424,70,19,44,2,10],"class_list":["post-2866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-afghanistan","tag-army","tag-bible","tag-churchandstate","tag-conspiracy","tag-evangelism","tag-government","tag-islam","tag-military","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866","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=2866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}