{"id":45693,"date":"2021-03-18T09:20:21","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T12:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=45693"},"modified":"2021-04-01T09:05:10","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T12:05:10","slug":"former-navy-admiral-house-chaplain-criticizes-politicians-unity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/18\/former-navy-admiral-house-chaplain-criticizes-politicians-unity\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Navy Admiral, House Chaplain Criticizes Politicians\u2019 Unity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45772\" src=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/kibben.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"880\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/kibben.jpg 880w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/kibben-300x95.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/kibben-768x244.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px\" \/>Former <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2018\/07\/31\/radm-brent-scott-newest-navy-chief-of-chaplains\/\">Chief of Navy Chaplains<\/a> (RAdm) Margaret Kibben was <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2021\/01\/22\/military-religious-freedom-in-a-new-era\/\">appointed<\/a> by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to be the House Chaplain in January. Last week, her opening \u201cprayer\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/religionnews.com\/2021\/03\/10\/house-chaplain-criticizes-lawmakers-in-prayer-for-failing-to-unite-around-pandemic-relief\/\">criticized the House members<\/a> for failing to \u201cunite\u201d around the $1.9T COVID \u201crelief\u201d bill.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAlmighty God, as these lawmakers take their sides on this factional bill before them, we pray your mercy,\u201d she said. \u201cForgive them, all of them. For when called upon to respond to a once-in-a-century pandemic that has rocked our country, upended its economy and widened the chasm of partisan opinion, they have missed the opportunity to step above the fray and unite to attend to this national crisis\u2026<\/p>\n<p>In failing to address the acrimony and divisions which have prevailed in this room, the servants you have called to lead this country have contributed to the spread of an even more insidious contagion of bitterness and spite.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The liberally-minded Kibben, who <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2015\/12\/17\/navy-chief-of-chaplains-on-humanist-jason-heap-chaplain-wes-modder\/\">declined to support her own chaplain\u2019s support<\/a> for religious liberty in the Navy, seemed to prefer movement over principle. Clearly, she didn&#8217;t intend <!--more-->to advocate prayerfully that Congress unite around voting the bill down, so she was presumably praying against Republicans who opposed the bill. Ironically, in so doing Chaplain Kibben criticized the very democratic process enshrined in the US Constitution she had sworn to uphold and defend.<\/p>\n<p>One thing Kibben failed to consider: If, during a crisis, the entire crowd moves in one direction \u2013 in \u201cunity\u201d \u2013 that\u2019s rarely an example wisdom. Instead, it reflects panic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Chief of Navy Chaplains (RAdm) Margaret Kibben was appointed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to be the House Chaplain in January. Last week, her opening \u201cprayer\u201d criticized the House members for failing to \u201cunite\u201d around the $1.9T COVID \u201crelief\u201d bill. \u201cAlmighty God, as these lawmakers take their sides on this factional bill before them, we pray your mercy,\u201d she [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[5284,96,78,1911,505,2,36,17,10,171],"class_list":["post-45693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-chaplain","tag-christian","tag-congress","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-margaret-kibben","tag-military","tag-navy","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45693","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=45693"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45773,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45693\/revisions\/45773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}