{"id":30693,"date":"2015-01-06T00:15:24","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T03:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=30693"},"modified":"2016-11-25T00:46:57","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T03:46:57","slug":"senior-leader-christianity-has-no-place-in-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/06\/senior-leader-christianity-has-no-place-in-army\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Leader: Christianity has no Place in Army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/christianity-no-place-british-army-4743011\">article at the UK Mirror<\/a> quotes a strikingly strong-worded British officer claiming there is no place for Christianity in the military:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lieutenant Colonel Laurence Quinn said commanders should no longer send priests to the front line and the forces should have non-religious advisors&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The British Army chaplaincy program is different from the US system, with all 150 or so chaplains being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.army.mod.uk\/chaplains\/23352.aspx\">exclusively of the Christian faith<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, LtCol Quinn <!--more-->was apparently one of those stereotypical &#8220;atheists in foxholes&#8221; &#8212; that is, one who seemed to retreat from his atheism in the face of war:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Even Lt Col Quinn admits he has tried talking to god when under pressure &#8211; especially when he fought in Iraq. In an interview published in Soldier Magazine he said: \u201cI served on Operation Telic in 2006 and it was a tough tour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI found myself praying. It was bizarre, and I wondered why I had done that.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\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>An article at the UK Mirror quotes a strikingly strong-worded British officer claiming there is no place for Christianity in the military: Lieutenant Colonel Laurence Quinn said commanders should no longer send priests to the front line and the forces should have non-religious advisors&#8230; The British Army chaplaincy program is different from the US system, with all 150 or so [&#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":[88,20,2154,5284,96,4997,2,10,171],"class_list":["post-30693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-army","tag-atheism","tag-british","tag-chaplain","tag-christian","tag-laurence-quinn","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30693","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=30693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}