Ethics

Military Proselytizing Worse Than Media Says

By Ed Brayton

Those reports the other day about Marines handing out coins with Bible verses on them was just the tip of the iceberg. Jason Leopold provides the evidence that this is a much larger, coordinated campaign being orchestrated by religious right groups affiliated with the military. Look what they're saying to religious newsletters and websites:

A recent article published on the website of Mission Network News reported that Bible Pathway Ministries, a fundamentalist Christian organization, has provided thousands of a special military edition of its Daily Devotional Bible study book to members of the 101st Airborne Division of Fort Campbell, Kentucky, currently stationed in Iraq, the project "came into being when a chaplain in Iraq (who has since finished his tour) requested some books from Bible Pathway Ministries (BPM)."

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on June 02, 2008 (boomark / email).