{"id":4681,"date":"2010-04-14T00:25:40","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T08:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=4681"},"modified":"2010-04-13T21:48:05","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T05:48:05","slug":"buddhist-services-at-camp-leatherneck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/14\/buddhist-services-at-camp-leatherneck\/","title":{"rendered":"Buddhist Services at Camp Leatherneck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Navy&#8217;s only Buddhist Chaplain is currently deployed to Afghanistan.\u00a0 She recently posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/buddhistmilitarysangha.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/happy-hanamatsuri.html\">short blog celebrating\u00a0Buddha&#8217;s birth<\/a> and noting the attendance of local Marines at the service.<\/p>\n<p>As noted here often, the US military protects religious freedom of its servicemembers, even when that religious freedom may be contrary or offensive to locals or America&#8217;s adversaries.\u00a0 While some often connect such offense with Christianity, it was just a few years ago that the Taliban ordered the destruction of &#8220;false idol&#8221; statues of Buddha in Afghanistan&#8211;which had stood for\u00a01,500 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Navy&#8217;s only Buddhist Chaplain is currently deployed to Afghanistan.\u00a0 She recently posted a short blog celebrating\u00a0Buddha&#8217;s birth and noting the attendance of local Marines at the service. As noted here often, the US military protects religious freedom of its servicemembers, even when that religious freedom may be contrary or offensive to locals or America&#8217;s adversaries.\u00a0 While some often [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[58,37,5284,2,17,10],"class_list":["post-4681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-afghanistan","tag-buddhism","tag-chaplain","tag-military","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4681","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=4681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}