{"id":330,"date":"2009-05-20T03:00:52","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T07:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=330"},"modified":"2009-11-21T21:31:55","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T05:31:55","slug":"biblical-quotes-on-top-secret-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/20\/biblical-quotes-on-top-secret-documents\/","title":{"rendered":"Biblical Quotes on Top Secret Documents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Much ado has been made of the GQ <a href=\"http:\/\/men.style.com\/gq\/features\/landing?&#038;id=content_9217\">article<\/a> which includes a <a href=\"http:\/\/men.style.com\/gq\/features\/topsecret\">slide show<\/a> of government Top Secret briefing coversheets.\u00a0 The pages contain pictures of the military and Biblical quotes. (Ironically, the topic was a short lead-in to a completely different subject, which has been largely ignored.)<\/p>\n<p>While interesting, the issue is a non-story.\u00a0 <!--more-->The coversheets were a very limited distribution briefing (a Top Secret brief for a few individuals, not public distribution).\u00a0 They were produced over a short period in 2003 by an officer who has since retired.\u00a0 Supposedly,\u00a0those who would have <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2009\/05\/19\/rumsfeld-aide-blasts-report-on-religious-iraq-slides\/\">briefed and received<\/a> the slides wouldn&#8217;t have even found the quotes\u00a0acceptable, so its unclear who <em>did<\/em> ultimately receive the briefings.<\/p>\n<p>The mere presence of the religious quotes, which allegedly replaced inappropriate humor, has been predictably <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/elections\/2009\/05\/19\/pentagon-briefings-longer-quote-bible\/\">called<\/a> a sign of &#8220;Christian nationalism,&#8221; a &#8220;violation of the separation of church and state,&#8221; and an attempt to frame the global conflict as a &#8220;holy war.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Of the Bible verses themselves, one blogger tellingly\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/dispatches\/2009\/05\/christian_nationalism_at_the_p.php\">opined<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It all sounds remarkably similar to what the Muslim terrorists who brought down the World Trade Center were no doubt telling themselves before takeoff, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much ado has been made of the GQ article which includes a slide show of government Top Secret briefing coversheets.\u00a0 The pages contain pictures of the military and Biblical quotes. (Ironically, the topic was a short lead-in to a completely different subject, which has been largely ignored.) While interesting, the issue is a non-story.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[61,4,2,63,45,10,62],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-bush","tag-churchandstate","tag-military","tag-pentagon","tag-politics","tag-religion","tag-rumsfeld"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","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=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}