{"id":8538,"date":"2010-12-30T00:55:44","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T05:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=8538"},"modified":"2010-12-27T03:20:52","modified_gmt":"2010-12-27T08:20:52","slug":"conscientious-objector-describes-faith-and-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/30\/conscientious-objector-describes-faith-and-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Conscientious Objector Describes Faith and War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most media stories on military conscientious objection revolve around those who are in trouble for missing movement or suing over their denial.\u00a0 (Approved CO applications hover around 50%.)\u00a0 On Slate, Kathryn Schulz interviews a young man named Josh Stieber who was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/blogs\/thewrongstuff\/archive\/2010\/12\/16\/my-country-right-or-wrong-conscientious-objector-josh-stieber-on-being-wrong-about-the-military.aspx\">recently discharged as a CO<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>His logic is sometimes strained and much is based on personal perception rather than fact, but that is often the case in situations like this.\u00a0 Ultimately, too, it is difficult to tell <!--more-->if he truly disagrees with <em>all<\/em> war, as CO status requires, because his emphasis was on the <em>way<\/em> that the <em>war in Iraq<\/em> was waged.\u00a0 Still, the final questions seem to lean in that direction.<\/p>\n<p>His story is worth the read, even as an insight into the spiritual struggles in general faced in military training and combat.\u00a0 Interestingly, Stieber notes he was resigned to going to prison until he was reminded of the option of conscientious objection.<\/p>\n<p>In a somewhat ironic twist, Stieber came to the &#8216;moral&#8217; conclusion of the immorality of war after knowingly purchasing a pirated movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most media stories on military conscientious objection revolve around those who are in trouble for missing movement or suing over their denial.\u00a0 (Approved CO applications hover around 50%.)\u00a0 On Slate, Kathryn Schulz interviews a young man named Josh Stieber who was recently discharged as a CO. His logic is sometimes strained and much is based on personal perception rather than [&#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":[4,46,1242,1241,2,10],"class_list":["post-8538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-churchandstate","tag-conscientious-objector","tag-josh-stieber","tag-kathryn-schulz","tag-military","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8538","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=8538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}