Published on Wednesday, August 22, 2007 by the Los Angeles Times Not So Fast, Christian Soldiers
Maybe what the war in Iraq needs is not more troops but more religion. At least that’s the message the Department of Defense seems to be sending. Last week, after an investigation spurred by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, the Pentagon abruptly announced that it would not be delivering “freedom packages” to our soldiers in Iraq, as it had originally intended. ...they held Bibles, proselytizing material in English and Arabic and the apocalyptic computer game “Left Behind: Eternal Forces” (derived from the series of post-Rapture novels), in which “soldiers for Christ” hunt down enemies who look suspiciously like U. N. peacekeepers. Full article at [includes image of CD cover]: http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/22/3331/ Published on Thursday, August 16, 2007 by ABC News DOD Stops Plan to Send Christian Video Game to Troops in Iraq by Anna Schecter Plans by a Christian group to send an evangelical video game to U.S. troops in Iraq were abruptly halted yesterday by the Department of Defense after ABC News inquired about the program. Full article at [includes still image from "Left Behind: Eternal Forces]: http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/16/3215/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.isoc-ny.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
