{"id":295,"date":"2009-03-13T21:08:08","date_gmt":"2009-03-14T01:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=295"},"modified":"2015-06-27T19:16:52","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T22:16:52","slug":"michael-weinstein-on-military-college-ministries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/13\/michael-weinstein-on-military-college-ministries\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Weinstein on Military & College Ministries"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Stanford Progressive<\/em>, a “left-leaning” student paper which boasts a circulation of “members of the Stanford community,…student residences and…community centers,” recently interviewed Michael Weinstein of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation.\u00a0 The interview, laced with profanity and transcription errors, is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To the question, “what are the Officer’s Christian Fellowship and Campus Crusade?”, Weinstein opined:<\/p>\n

They are blights on America and a disgusting example of extremist prejudice and bigotry in this country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the interview Weinstein clearly discriminates between “evangelical” Christians and “dominionist” Christians.\u00a0 He says they both have “religious philosophies” that he “[hates],” and they both<\/p>\n

have unbridled desire to proselytize and convert people…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

However,\u00a0dominionists do not<\/p>\n

submit to the constraints of the US Constitution as to time place and manner in which they can proselytize…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Notably, however, it is Weinstein<\/em> that chooses which Christians are “evangelical” and which are “dominionist.”\u00a0 To date, no mainstream ministry that the MRFF has publicly criticized explicitly professes a “dominionist” theology.\u00a0 Instead, he<\/em> ascribes that philosophy to them, at his discretion.\u00a0 In so doing, he gains\u00a0a freedom to attack a faith group.\u00a0 Weinstein’s vitriol has not only been repeated in the press, but supported by it.\u00a0 Conversely, were statements equivalent to\u00a0“Christians are usurping the Constitution to install a theocracy” made about Jews or Muslims, the public response would be far different.<\/p>\n

Given his intolerance for military Christian ministries, his concluding thoughts are particularly ironic:<\/p>\n

I love this country, but what’s going to kill us is tolerance. Tolerance for intolerance…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Also noted at ADF<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Stanford Progressive, a “left-leaning” student paper which boasts a circulation of “members of the Stanford community,…student residences and…community centers,” recently interviewed Michael Weinstein of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation.\u00a0 The interview, laced with profanity and transcription errors, is available here. To the question, “what are the Officer’s Christian Fellowship and Campus Crusade?”, Weinstein opined: They are blights on America […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[69,4,82,85,2,5218,7,81,10],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-academies","tag-campus-crusade","tag-churchandstate","tag-constitution","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-ocf","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","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=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}