Comments on: US Chaplains Confiscate Then Destroy Bibles http://fpcr.org/FaithPressBlog/?p=70 News from Faith Presbyterian Church Reformed Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:13:46 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: dr94bacon http://fpcr.org/FaithPressBlog/?p=70&cpage=1#comment-28 dr94bacon Thu, 21 May 2009 13:45:13 +0000 http://fpcr.org/FaithPressBlog/?p=70#comment-28 Mike, Just as any employer has the right to set dress standards for employees, so too does the US gov't. What no employer has the right to do is deny constitutional rights. It may be that there will subsequently be proof that the soldiers were attempting to do something illegal with those Bibles. But confiscation of personal property is draconian in itself, whether the Bibles were subsequently destroyed or not. Mike,

Just as any employer has the right to set dress standards for employees, so too does the US gov’t. What no employer has the right to do is deny constitutional rights. It may be that there will subsequently be proof that the soldiers were attempting to do something illegal with those Bibles. But confiscation of personal property is draconian in itself, whether the Bibles were subsequently destroyed or not.

]]> By: mike http://fpcr.org/FaithPressBlog/?p=70&cpage=1#comment-27 mike Wed, 20 May 2009 22:39:02 +0000 http://fpcr.org/FaithPressBlog/?p=70#comment-27 Wow, I didn't know troops have the samerights as any u.s. citizen, well they don't. If so they would all have long hair and beards, but anyways. Why do they have to burn the bibles? can't they collect them and take them to a country that could use them? taking the bibles I can se, but destroying them in such a Nazi way speaks oodles. Wow, I didn’t know troops have the samerights as any u.s. citizen, well they don’t. If so they would all have long hair and beards, but anyways. Why do they have to burn the bibles? can’t they collect them and take them to a country that could use them? taking the bibles I can se, but destroying them in such a Nazi way speaks oodles.

]]> By: dr94bacon http://fpcr.org/FaithPressBlog/?p=70&cpage=1#comment-26 dr94bacon Tue, 19 May 2009 15:27:35 +0000 http://fpcr.org/FaithPressBlog/?p=70#comment-26 I think I understand what you are saying. My only response would be that the soldiers do not give up their rights as US citizens to vote, to speak, etc. Why should they be expected to give up their right to freedom to express that religion? If the government of Afghanistan is such that they will not allow the soldiers to express their liberties, then I have to wonder why the US military would support such a regime as not only refuses to be a nursing father to the true church of Jesus Christ, but also insists upon being the nursing father of an ungodly and unrepentant religion. I think I understand what you are saying. My only response would be that the soldiers do not give up their rights as US citizens to vote, to speak, etc. Why should they be expected to give up their right to freedom to express that religion?

If the government of Afghanistan is such that they will not allow the soldiers to express their liberties, then I have to wonder why the US military would support such a regime as not only refuses to be a nursing father to the true church of Jesus Christ, but also insists upon being the nursing father of an ungodly and unrepentant religion.

]]> By: Roodog http://fpcr.org/FaithPressBlog/?p=70&cpage=1#comment-25 Roodog Tue, 19 May 2009 00:50:29 +0000 http://fpcr.org/FaithPressBlog/?p=70#comment-25 The Scriptures need to be distributed by the local churches of these countries.We in American can pay for the Bibles(plus shipping). I have mixed feeelings about our troops being involved with this because they're there put down a violent situation. The Scriptures need to be distributed by the local churches of these countries.We in American can pay for the Bibles(plus shipping). I have mixed feeelings about our troops being involved with this because they’re there put down a violent situation.

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