Chris Hedges: America's Holy Warriors
Tue Jan 02, 2007 at 04:49:21 AM PDT
Chris Hedges: America's Holy Warriors
The drive by the Christian right to take control of military chaplaincies, which now sees radical Christians holding roughly 50 percent of chaplaincy appointments in the armed services and service academies, is part of a much larger effort to politicize the military and law enforcement. This effort signals the final and perhaps most deadly stage in the long campaign by the radical Christian right to dismantle America's open society and build a theocratic state. A successful politicization of the military would signal the end of our democracy.
Abu Ghraib: Hell House of the Religious Right II
Sun Nov 05, 2006 at 11:16:24 AM PDT
Christianity Today: 5 Reasons Torture Is Always Wrong
Sat Feb 11, 2006 at 03:43:00 PM PDT
FYI
5 Reasons Torture Is Always Wrong
And why there should be no exceptions.
...So I do not write to demonize those who believe that protecting our nation's security requires the use of interrogation techniques that could be classified as borderline torture. Nor do I want to get into a technical and detailed argument about particular interrogation techniques to determine if they are torture. What I want to focus on is the idea that, given the war on terror, the gloves should be taken off. Simply put, should our government have the option--even if used only rarely and in extreme circumstances--of torturing prisoners?
I believe Christians should say no, on the following five grounds....
NY Times: Wayward Christian Soldiers
Sat Jan 21, 2006 at 12:45:30 PM PDT
Wayward Christian Soldiers
IN the past several years, American evangelicals, and I am one of them, have amassed greater political power than at any time in our history. But at what cost to our witness and the integrity of our message?
This Sermon Brought To You By Narnia
Tue Dec 20, 2005 at 08:43:14 AM PDT
Abu Ghraib: Hell House of the Religious Right
Fri Nov 25, 2005 at 02:34:26 PM PDT
Abu Ghraib is an ongoing Hell House of the Religious Right. Hell Houses are a technique used by conservative Christian churches in North America to proselytize by demonstrating what awaits those who do not submit to salvation. According to these conservative Christians, when your savior sheds blood and dies for you, he owns you (you are "bought with a price"), and torment is not a result of specific sins on your part, but is due to your failure to actively submit to salvation (there is no neutral ground, as
both Bush and Jesus say, you are either for us or against us):
DEADLY INTERROGATION: Can the C.I.A. legally kill a prisoner?
Mon Nov 07, 2005 at 12:52:00 PM PDT
...The house belongs to Mark Swanner, a forty-six-year-old C.I.A. officer who has performed interrogations and polygraph tests for the agency, which has employed him at least since the nineteen-nineties. (He is not a covert operative.) Two years ago, at Abu Ghraib prison, outside Baghdad, an Iraqi prisoner in Swanner's custody, Manadel al-Jamadi, died during an interrogation. His head had been covered with a plastic bag, and he was shackled in a crucifixion-like pose that inhibited his ability to breathe; according to forensic pathologists who have examined the case, he asphyxiated....
