{"id":36467,"date":"2016-09-16T19:30:04","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T22:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=36467"},"modified":"2016-09-23T01:41:10","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T04:41:10","slug":"military-religious-freedom-tolerance-and-self-contradiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/16\/military-religious-freedom-tolerance-and-self-contradiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Military Religious Freedom, Tolerance, and Self-Contradiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>self-con\u00b7tra\u00b7dic\u00b7tion<\/strong><br \/>\nnoun: inconsistency between aspects or parts of a whole.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c<strong>Tolerance isn\u2019t just a virtue for us; it\u2019s a practical necessity,&#8221; <\/strong>[Secretary of\u00a0Defense Ash Carter] <a href=\"http:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2016\/09\/16\/for-muslims-at-the-pentagon-a-tough-election-year\/\">told [Foreign Policy]<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile:\u00a0 &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwfdailynews.com\/news\/20160916\/updated-eglin-removes-bible-from-clinic-following-retirees-complaint\">Eglin removes Bible from clinic following retiree&#8217;s complaint<\/a>.&#8221;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-36470\" src=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/eglinbible.jpg\" alt=\"eglinbible\" width=\"276\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/eglinbible.jpg 540w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/eglinbible-169x300.jpg 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tolerance? The Bible &#8212; which was surrounded <!--more-->by other reading material on a waiting room table &#8212; was removed because a retiree was offended that he could <strong>see<\/strong> it.<\/p>\n<p>What about the offense of those who like to <strong>read<\/strong> it?<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Retiree&#8217;s photo via Northwest Florida Daily News, credited to MRFF.<\/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>self-con\u00b7tra\u00b7dic\u00b7tion noun: inconsistency between aspects or parts of a whole. \u201cTolerance isn\u2019t just a virtue for us; it\u2019s a practical necessity,&#8221; [Secretary of\u00a0Defense Ash Carter] told [Foreign Policy]. Meanwhile:\u00a0 &#8220;Eglin removes Bible from clinic following retiree&#8217;s complaint.&#8221; Tolerance? 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