From the Family Research Council:
The greatest threat to national security isn't global terrorism or Iran's nuclear program. No, according to one organization, one of America's biggest threats is the Word of God. That's what Mikey Weinstein is telling the U.S. military as part of his push to ban Bibles from base exchanges. And not just any Bibles--but military-themed editions. Fox News's Todd Starnes broke the story, which started when the Military Freedom from Religion Foundation complained that LifeWay publishers was selling Army-, Navy-, Air Force-, and Marine-specific Bibles to troops.
Apparently, it's irrelevant that the Bibles were sold at no cost to the government, and service members voluntarily purchased them. At no point were military members coerced or encouraged to buy the books. Yet Weinstein insists that their mere presence in base shelves constitutes a religious endorsement by the Department of Defense. "If their logos are being placed on a particular version of Christianity... when we are engaged in a war with fundamentalist Muslims--it's a security threat."
When Starnes called LifeWay, a spokesman said the government contacted them last year and said they were no longer authorized to use the branches' insignias. The Pentagon was quick to call it a "trademark issue" that had nothing to do with religion. I'll bet. Just like the Walter Reed Bible ban had nothing to do with the Bibles.
This is all part of the progression that started exactly 50 years ago in schools--when society started purging God from the classroom. Just consider how far we've fallen. Months before the start of World War II, President Franklin Roosevelt actually wrote the prologue to the Gideon Bibles given to the Armed Forces, encouraging them to draw courage from its contents. "As Commander-in-Chief, I take pleasure in commending the reading of the Bible to all who serve in the armed forces of the United States. Throughout the centuries, men of many faiths and diverse origins have found in the Sacred Book words of wisdom, counsel, and inspiration. It is a fountain of strength, and now, as always, an aid in attaining the highest aspirations of the human soul."
Now, the march of humanism is at our military's doorstep. And once it falls, the rest of America is vulnerable. When Jesus instructed us to pray in our closet (Matthew 6:6), who knew it might be all we'd have left?
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