Religious Freedom Group Complains About Bible on POW/MIA Table at Japan Based DFAC
The anti-religion group MRFF has found another cause to attack the military with:
A religious freedom and diversity group is demanding that a naval air station in Japan remove a Bible from a POW-MIA table on base.
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation sent a letter Friday to Naval Air Facility Atsugi’s commander, Capt. John Montagnet, after receiving 15 complaints about the table from personnel at the installation, group founder Michael Weinstein told Stars and Stripes in a phone call Monday. (…..)
Over the past five years, the MRFF’s petitions resulted in the removal of Bibles from POW-MIA tables at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio; four Veterans’ Administration offices in Pennsylvania, Texas and Ohio; and an allergy clinic at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla.
Stars & Stripes
You can read more at the link, but if someone wants their religion represented on the table I am sure no one would have a problem with another book added to the table. I wonder if this group’s ultimate goal is to go after military chaplains and try to get them removed?
Anyway if any is wondering why the MRFF’s founder Michael Weinstein is so adamant about attacking the military all you have to do is follow the money.
I find it interesting that he makes it crystal clear he is Jewish. The last time I looked at a Bible, both the Old & New Testaments are included. I’m going to assume he wants a Quran placed as well. If only a Quran were there I would be unlikely to notice, it’s symbolic not religious. I guess this sees himself as a hammer in a world of nails.
“…but if someone wants their religion represented on the table I am sure no one would have a problem with another book added to the table.”
Can I have MY religious text added to the table without problem?
Do you want to rethink that position?
Doc, no, the guy wants only atheism represented. Dude makes a show of Jewishness; but he hates all religions.
CH, as long as your religious book is a Bible (KJV, ESV, BASB, or NIV), I’m sure it will be fine. Best not to irritate the folks who set up those tables. Most of them “saw the elephant” (i.e., served in combat) and lost close friends they want to memorialize.
@CH, like the vast majority of people I don’t get triggered if I see a Bible, Koran, or Torah lying around. If someone wants to put a Satanic book on the table than they are just trolling.
Heh.
I would never troll with Satan.
It’s not what St. George Floyd would have wanted.