Wonderful – just bloody wonderful
As if being in Afghanistan isn’t dangerous enough, a group of Evangelical US soldiers are making the situation even worse by promoting their own evangelical agenda.
Soldiers were handing out bibles to this very, very conservative and largely illiterate nation. Just having a Bible in their possession could jeopardise the lives of the poor Afghan that does not understand they are being used in a new cold war between the Taliban and the Christian Right. A number of accusations have flown in the past few years over the hijacking of the military by right wing Christian groups, this is just the latest. Listen carefully to the tape and you will see the soldiers involved know they are violating military policy, and to compound the violation, talk about ways of circumventing them. The US military said the Bibles in question have been destroyed. But a new question comes to mind: how has the US military allowed such open prostylization to occur?
