{"id":39099,"date":"2016-11-30T00:25:56","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T03:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=39099"},"modified":"2016-11-30T03:26:50","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T06:26:50","slug":"frc-marines-right-to-recognize-spiritual-fitness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/30\/frc-marines-right-to-recognize-spiritual-fitness\/","title":{"rendered":"FRC: Marines Right to Recognize Spiritual Fitness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Family Research Council <a href=\"http:\/\/frcblog.com\/2016\/11\/marine-corps-spiritual-fitness-necessary-component-effective-military-service\/\">recently commended<\/a> the US Marine Corps for announcing an increased emphasis on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2016\/11\/02\/us-marines-emphasize-spiritual-fitness\/\">spiritual fitness<\/a>&#8221; (previously discussed).<\/p>\n<p>The FRC&#8217;s Travis Weber made this astute observation [emphasis added]:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As we continue to face <strong>instances of religion being scrubbed from the military<\/strong>, whether through the removal of Bibles from public displays in military facilities, or the censorship of religious references by commanders, the Marine Corps\u2019 action reminds us of the <strong>potentially detrimental effects of the elimination of the spiritual aspect of military service<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It is undeniable that <strong>the spiritual component of our human nature plays an important role in the business of warfare<\/strong>. It must be addressed, and <strong>we neglect it at our own peril<\/strong>. For these reasons and more, the Marine Corps\u2019 announcement recognizing its importance is welcome indeed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Weber is right: There is a substantial <!--more-->detriment to scrubbing spirituality from the US military. Stigmatizing faith and religious expression in the US military negatively impacts military readiness and ultimately plays into the tragic outcomes of <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2016\/10\/11\/professor-calls-for-military-chaplains-to-confront-moral-injury\/\">moral injury<\/a> &#8212; including the epidemic of veteran suicides.<\/p>\n<p>If there&#8217;s a part of the social culture that should be emphasized due to its impact on the military mission, it is spiritual resilience, as that affects <em>every<\/em> US service member.<\/p>\n<p>If the US military is willing to turn policy on its head for <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2016\/11\/08\/groups-urge-congress-to-reinstate-transgender-ban\/\">0.3% of its population<\/a>, surely it will support the needs of 100%, right?<\/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>The Family Research Council recently commended the US Marine Corps for announcing an increased emphasis on &#8220;spiritual fitness&#8221; (previously discussed). The FRC&#8217;s Travis Weber made this astute observation [emphasis added]: As we continue to face instances of religion being scrubbed from the military, whether through the removal of Bibles from public displays in military facilities, or the censorship of religious [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1146,240,149,2,10,171,1267,4887],"class_list":["post-39099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-family-research-council","tag-frc","tag-marines","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-spiritual-fitness","tag-travis-weber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39099","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=39099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}