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Commander hosting Bible knowledge contest on Halloween for soldiers “who do not wish to honor Satan” [1]

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Date: 2023-10-18  

Hey, soldier. Wanna make sure your fundamentalist Christian zealot of a commander knows you’re not a Satan worshipper? Then be sure to come to his Halloween “New Testament Bible Knowledge Contest” to show off your scriptural skills. Forget about “Trick or Treat.” At your commander’s house it’s gonna be “Timothy or Thessalonians!”

Yes, that’s what the following text, sent out by a very Christian Army commander’s wife to her very Christian husband’s entire unit, might as well have said.

“To those of you who do not wish to honor Satan this coming Halloween my husband and I offer you all a far better alternative. We will be hosting a New Testament Bible Knowledge Contest at our on-post residence from 1800 hours until 2030 hours for all interested Christian families. There will be plenty of food, fun and prizes for all who participate. Bring your Bibles and fellowship. This event is voluntary and there is no compulsion to attend. Please RSVP to me at XXX-XXX-XXXX.”

This particular Christian commander is a repeat offender, as the spouse of one of the soldiers and Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) clients in the commander’s unit reminded us in the email below, writing that just a few years ago he “was making the annual National Prayer breakfast here mandatory by accountability for all unit members” until “MRFF helped us get in his face to stop him.”

Does this God-fearing genius think that having his wife invite his subordinates to his latest religious test and having her tell them it’s “voluntary” makes it any less coercive? That the soldiers under his command, whose careers he holds in his hands, won’t feel any less pressured to show their Halloween-maskless faces at his “New Testament Bible Knowledge Contest” to stay in his good and Godly graces?

As the writer of the below e-mail, writing on behalf of their own family as well as twelve other soldiers in their unit and their families, says of the commander’s wife’s claim that the commander’s Halloween holiness is voluntary, “she and her commander husband can’t just magically make this whole event as ‘voluntary’ when it’s coming from our damn commander!”

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