Campus Crusade For Christ Seeks US Military "Government Paid Missionaries"

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Campus Crusade For Christ Seeks US Military "Government Paid Missionaries"
By Bruce Wilson Sat Nov 10, 2007 at 12:43:12 PM EST


New MRFF Report: "Government Paid Missionaries"

As a newly released Military Religious Freedom Foundation report describes, an extensive and well funded effort has targeted the US military for religious (read: ideological) conversion. Meet the leader of one of the organizations in the forefront of that effort:

Discipleship For US Troops
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Above: In YouTube videos above, posted by Military Ministry, ministry director retired Major General Bob Dees outlines Military Ministry's strategic objectives #1 and #6 and describes his ministry's presence on major US military basic training facilities. According to DoD regulations, the presence of Campus Crusade for Christ ministry's and employees on US military bases requires at least the initial approval of base commanders.

Black Helicopters vs ICBMs

Lately, principally through the pioneering efforts of journalist Jeremy Scahill, Blackwater International and Blackwater USA have received much needed American and world public scrutiny, and that is appropriate. Blackwater represents a menace to American constitutional democracy. Private armies and democracy do not mix.

But, it's crucial to recognize that Blackwater is, for all of its menace, a minor threat compared to ongoing efforts to recruit the leadership, and the rank and file, of the US military to a politicized form of fundamentalist Christianity. That effort has been underway for several decades now but it has dramatically sped up during the two presidential terms of George W. Bush.

This post concerns an organization that is in the forefront of those efforts as well as the beliefs of that organization's founder.

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