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More on Afghan Military Missionary Situation

By Ed Brayton

pJason Leopold a href="http://www.pubrecord.org/religion/565-military-entangled-in-extreme-missionary-christian-reality-tv-show.html"has more/a on the situation I reported last week where the military allowed Christian missionaries to be embedded with them, travel with them to meet Afghan villagers and then hand out Bibles to them and proselytize them to convert to Christianity. One of the things I didn't mention was that an active duty military chaplain said in one of the videos that he tries to convert Afghani Muslims himself:/p blockquoteIn one scene, an Army Chaplain named Capt. Brad Hanna of the Oklahoma National Guard, talks about the possibility of a "revival" in Afghanistan and says he frequently speaks to Afghans about converting to Christianity. Hanna was made a full-time support chaplain for the Oklahoma National Guard after he returned from Afghanistan./blockquote a href="http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2008/12/more_on_afghan_military_missio.php"Read the rest of this post.../a | a href="http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2008/12/more_on_afghan_military_missio.php#commentsArea"Read the comments on this post.../aimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/scienceblogs/dispatches/~4/487662020" height="1" width="1"/

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on December 17, 2008 (boomark / email).