{"id":6558,"date":"2010-07-30T00:39:16","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T06:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=6558"},"modified":"2011-03-23T22:52:09","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T03:52:09","slug":"religion-and-the-military-in-pictures-free-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/30\/religion-and-the-military-in-pictures-free-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"Religion and the Military in Pictures: Free Exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The third installment of pictures documenting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/photogallery\/photogalleryindex.htm\">religion and its place in the US military<\/a> begins with photographs of free exercise.\u00a0 The first set includes photographs of the US military&#8217;s efforts to support expressions of the Jewish faith.<\/p>\n<p>These pictures continue to demonstrate that the US military goes out of its way to support the free exercise of its troops, even when that free exercise might raise eyebrows among conspiracy theorists when it is associated with the US government or the US military.\u00a0 Celebrations of holy days, the wearing of religious artifacts in uniform, religious celebrations while armed and in uniform, even something as simple as a <em>bar mitzvah<\/em> in Iraq are shown among the photographs.<\/p>\n<p>Men and women of faith can be in \u2013 and express their faith within \u2014 the US military.\u00a0 These pictures and those to come \u2013 all of which are publicly available \u2013 show that faith has a fitting and integral role in many lives in the military.<\/p>\n<p>These <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/photogallery\/photogalleryindex.htm\">photo galleries<\/a> are now part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/resources.htm\">Resources<\/a> page of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/\">ChristianFighterPilot.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third installment of pictures documenting religion and its place in the US military begins with photographs of free exercise.\u00a0 The first set includes photographs of the US military&#8217;s efforts to support expressions of the Jewish faith. These pictures continue to demonstrate that the US military goes out of its way to support the free exercise of its troops, even [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[5284,4,1424,18,2,477,11,17,10,40],"class_list":["post-6558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-chaplain","tag-churchandstate","tag-conspiracy","tag-free-exercise","tag-military","tag-photograph","tag-prayer","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-tradition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6558","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=6558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}