{"id":1720,"date":"2009-05-05T15:50:52","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T02:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/?p=1720"},"modified":"2009-05-05T16:03:35","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T03:03:35","slug":"corrupt-chrisitanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/archives\/1720","title":{"rendered":"Christianity corrupted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2009\/5\/4\/headlines#5\">Democracy Now!<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nUS Soldiers Accused of Proselytizing in Afghanistan<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera has revealed US soldiers are being encouraged to spread the message of their Christian faith among Afghanistan\u2019s predominantly Muslim population. Soldiers have been filmed with Bibles printed in Afghanistan\u2019s main Pashto and Dari languages. In one recorded sermon, Lieutenant-Colonel Gary Hensley, the chief of the US military chaplains in Afghanistan, is seen telling soldiers that as followers of Jesus Christ, they all have a responsibility \u201cto be witnesses for him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lieutenant-Colonel Gary Hensley: \u201cThe special forces guys, they hunt men, basically. We do the same things as Christians: we hunt people for Jesus. We do. We hunt them down, get the hound of heaven after them, so we get them into kingdom. Right? That\u2019s what we do. That\u2019s our business.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Democracy Now!: US Soldiers Accused of Proselytizing in Afghanistan Al Jazeera has revealed US soldiers are being encouraged to spread the message of their Christian faith among Afghanistan\u2019s predominantly Muslim population. Soldiers have been filmed with Bibles printed in Afghanistan\u2019s main Pashto and Dari languages. In one recorded sermon, Lieutenant-Colonel Gary Hensley, the chief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1720"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1726,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions\/1726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}