Army Chaplain Punished For...Mentioning The Bible

by JASmius



Christophobic persecution continues to escalate - and leave it to an Army Ranger to administer some pushback:

[Army Chaplain Captain Joe] Lawhorn conducted the mandatory training session on depression and suicide prevention November 20th at the University of North Georgia.

During the class, he explained how he followed the example of Israel’s King David to overcome his own depression while an Army Ranger. He also distributed a handout to soldiers that included references to the Bible and provided referrals for local counseling that included secular and non-secular options.

No proselytizing.  No "Bible-thumping".  Just a training session on depression and suicide prevention in which Captain Lawhorn shared how his faith helped him overcome his own one-time depression, and local counseling referrals that did not exclude Christian options.  It barely even qualifies as "religious expression" because the context was a secular one.

But remember the One Atheist Commandment: "Thou shalt not mention the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, God's Word, or anything that could be remotely be conceivably interpreted as Christian publicly, privately, or in the very depths of your own thoughts."

And so.....:

After the session, a member of the audience complained to an atheist group called the Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers.

"Free thinkers" except for Christianity, which must be expunged.

And, predictably in the Age of The One....:

A week later, on Thanksgiving, Lawhorn received a “letter of concern” from Colonel David Fivecoat, commander of the Airborne and Ranger Training Brigade at Fort Benning, Georgia.

Fivecoat’s letter alleges that Lawhorn “advocated for … Christianity and used Christian scripture and solutions” and, therefore, violated Army regulations.

Sharing his own personal faith-related experience is not "advocation for Christianity".  But let's say that Captain Lawhorn had shared and preached the Gospel to his audience - so what?  He's a chaplain, for heaven's sake.  If the Obarmy doesn't want Christian counseling options made available to soldiers - which would constitute religious discrimination, by the by - then don't assign Christian chaplains to conduct mandatory training sessions on depression and suicide prevention.  Send some godless "social worker" contractor who can offer them no hope and a whole lot of psychobabble and gobbledygook that will depress them still further and doubtless encourage them to convert to homosexuality.  Yeah, that'll really improve military morale.

Care to take any bets on whether Colonel Fivecoat will be sending any "letters of concern" to Muslim chaplains who inject Sharia into their "mandatory training sessions on depression and suicide prevention"?  Or their mandatory training sessions on suicide bombing?