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The Left's War On Christians Title: High military court will hear case of Marine punished for displaying Bible verse The highest U.S. military court will hear the case of a Marine who was punished for refusing to remove a Bible verse from her workstation. In May, 2013 then-Lance Cpl. Monifa Sterling kept a Bible verse on her computer in three places. The verses read "No weapon formed against me shall prosper," a modification of the Isaiah 54:17, according to the Catholic News Agency. Ms. Sterling's staff sergeant demanded she remove the verse, but Ms. Sterling refused, saying she had the right to express her religious freedom. The next day Ms. Sterling arrived to find the verses had been ripped down from her station. She put them up again. The cycle repeated until Ms. Sterling was court-martialed on Feb. 1, 2014. She was convicted of disrespecting a superior commissioned officer, failing to go to an appointed place of duty, and disobeying a lawful order on four separate occasions, The Daily Caller reported. Earlier this year, the U.S. Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals also sided against Ms. Sterling, saying significant damage could be caused by forcing military employees to be exposed to a religious quotation, CNA reported. Poster Comment: How such a situation got to the point of CM and appeals is amazing. Was there not just ONE leader in the Marine's chain of command who could have handled this situation better?Subscribe to *Religious History and Issues* Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 4. If the United States military wants to prosecute and punish a woman for firmly maintaining her right to make a simply statement about God at her desk, Americans who join now, or who serve, should understand that they are under the command of an organization that hates God. And they should not be surprised when God allows them to be slaughtered on the battlefield, because they are not his friends or his allies, and they are carrying around guns killing people. If you are killing people and it is not in defense of life and truth, you are a murderer damned to Hell. All armed men in all armed forces which forces are opposed to God, as the military is in this case, are simply thugs who cannot expect God's protection in battle, but who can expect to roast in the Lake of Fire at final judgment for being killers without sanctuary. That's the way it is. The US military has declared war on God. Therefore it is evil, and God will not protect it on the battlefield. And the men who fight and kill without following the rules of God, and who hate God, have nothing to look forward to but damnation and hell, because they are evil by definition. Too bad for them. My advice nowadays: don't sign up to serve the United States in any capacity that involves carrying a gun, because the evil that your nation has become will be imputed to you because you protect and defend it. It would be best if the Christians in the military made it very clear, en masse, that their allegiance to God and love for God is always superior to any oath they took to support and defend the Constitution, if for not other reason than that an oath before God is meaningless unless one acknowledges that the one before whom the oath is made - God - has the power to enforce the oath. If the Constitution cannot protect itself but requires men to swear before God that they will do it, then the fact there is an oath at all is an open admission of the inferiority of the Constitution before God - for God is invoked to try to keep the defenders of the Constitution on the line defending it. If the Constitutional order has degenerated to the point that God cannot even be referred to, except in an oath, then the oath is vitiated of any meaning, other than whatever meaning that men without God can extract by imposing human punishment upon those who don't remain true to a promise made to men. The Constitution and the nation are nothing before God, and every American soldier, sailor, airman and Marine would do very well to realize that, if forced to choose between God and the Constitution, the fact of being forced to make that choice means that the Constitution has become a tool of Satan, and should be rejected in favor of God. This is obvious. But every lover and fearer of God in ranks should make that tacit admission to himself or herself now, in the face of these proceedings: if forced to choose between God on the one hand, and Constitution and nation on the other, the Constitution and the nation die. Without a moment's hesitation. For the fact of being forced to make the choice - that fact itself - means that the Constitution has been rendered a dishrag of the Devil.
#4. To: Vicomte13 (#2) (Edited) Does "give to Caesar's what is Caesar's and to God what is God's" apply to this? And Paul said the Emperor's power is given to him by God - so Paul was supposed to be under the influence of the Holy Spirit too
Replies to Comment # 4. Does "give to Caesar's what is Caesar's and to God what is God's" apply to this? Sure "Give unto Caesar" applies. The view that "God will protect me from mine enemies" is not Caesar's to approve or deny. It's God's. What Paul said is true, but it applies universally to all leaders and to whomever wins the battle. Which means that Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot and the Ayatollah, also, had their power given to them by God. The Almighty has his own purposes. If, with the power granted by God, and even with victories given by God to the evil - such as the Nazi victory over free people in various places, or the Japanese victory over the American fleet at Pearl Harbor, or the success of the terrorist strike in Paris - what those leaders and victors granted their power and victories by God is itself evil, then those leaders and victors must be fought. God never promised us that we get to die in bed. Sometimes he places evil in command and grants it victory specifically to force those who are with him to fight and endure hardship, loss and even death for him. God demanded that Abraham kill Isaac, after all, and though God prevented Abraham from doing so at the last minute, when God ordered the Israelites into battle, he did not spare all of the Israelite lives in the battle. Such is the way of it: we must not overvalue these physical bodies of ours, because God doesn't place much value on them. It's the spirit that resides in them that counts. And sometimes God forces men into the situation where they have to sacrifice their bodies, and lose their lives and limbs fighting evil men to whom God has given the leadership and the victory. Perhaps in such cases it is specifically to cause those spirits that are martyred fighting the evil that God has appointed to run its course to have a greater crown than they otherwise would have, as they move out of bullet-torn flesh into the afterlife. The Almighty has his own purposes. Hitler was also appointed by God to rule Germany, and God granted Hitler many victories over free people and over the Jews of the Warsaw ghetto. God gave him the imperium, and then God forced those who were his people, free people, to make the choice to submit to the evil which God had appointed to chastise them, or to take up arms and fight that evil, because of the evil it did. And in fighting the evil, God gave full weight to the enemy weapons also. Nazi bullets tore through the heads of saints with the same deadly force that the bullets of those fighting the Nazis killed Nazis. We cannot help but all be under the influence of God's Holy Spirit, to whatever purpose God intends. Pharaoh didn't harden his OWN heart to not let the Hebrews go, rather, when Pharaoh was ready to let the Hebrews go, time and again it was God himself who hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that the Egyptians would not let the Hebrews go, and then, then, gave the opening for God to slaughter more Egyptians with disease, hail, etc. God uses human rulers and victories and death also to teach people what he wants of them. If people all obeyed God, there would be no killing, and no need for rulers either. But we don't, and so God makes examples and assigns punishment and justice. The evil rises? If men do not bestir themselves to put it down, then God may very well grant the evil the thrones of great empires, such as Germany and the Soviet Union, and grant the evil great victories so that, with terror and slaughter, the neutral and the good are forced to bestir themselves more than they want to. The American Civil War is a classic example of God hardening hearts and granting victories to one side, then to the other, to prolong the savagery and cause the suffering to more deeply soak into all levels of society - so that America could experience across the board the suffering of the bondsman. God's justice is a fierce and terrible thing, and he doesn't play games.
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