{"id":46161,"date":"2021-04-04T20:46:05","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T23:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=46161"},"modified":"2021-04-05T19:50:48","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T22:50:48","slug":"us-troops-celebrate-easter-in-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/04\/us-troops-celebrate-easter-in-the-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"US Troops Celebrate Easter in the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US troops celebrated the resurrection of the Jesus Christ around the world, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/image\/6583773\/hilltop-ready-easter-service\">in the Middle East<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46162\" src=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/jordaneaster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"880\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/jordaneaster.jpg 880w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/jordaneaster-300x95.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/jordaneaster-768x244.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px\" \/><em>U.S. Army Soldiers deployed to the Middle East in support of Operation Spartan Shield greet the Easter morning sunrise on a hilltop in Jordan less than 60 miles from where many Christians recognize as the resurrection site for Jesus of Nazareth, April 4, 2021. (Photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Suzanne Ringle, Task Force Spartan Public Affairs)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A few years ago, Chris Rodda claimed <!--more-->things like this <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2010\/03\/31\/mrff-opposes-troops-religious-freedom-at-easter\/\">&#8220;convince the Muslims we&#8217;re on a crusade&#8221;<\/a>, as if &#8220;the Muslims&#8221; is a thing. Since Rodda and Michael &#8220;Mikey&#8221; Weinstein believe offense is more important than rights, they think liberty should be restricted to avoid hurt feelings at all cost.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see, her complaints haven&#8217;t had amounted to much, and military religious freedom remains &#8212; as it should.<\/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>US troops celebrated the resurrection of the Jesus Christ around the world, including in the Middle East: U.S. Army Soldiers deployed to the Middle East in support of Operation Spartan Shield greet the Easter morning sunrise on a hilltop in Jordan less than 60 miles from where many Christians recognize as the resurrection site for Jesus of Nazareth, April 4, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[38,5284,175,96,4,350,52,44,39,85,2,5218,7,17,10],"class_list":["post-46161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-chapel","tag-chaplain","tag-chris-rodda","tag-christian","tag-churchandstate","tag-easter","tag-iraq","tag-islam","tag-jewish","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46161","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=46161"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46168,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46161\/revisions\/46168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}