HARASSMENT: Cristophobes harass nation's General Petraeus during wartime!

Petraeus Endorsement of Faith-Based Military Book Draws Fire | Christianpost.com

Some Christian antagonists are more a wearying nuisance than a real threat, but when they're a well-funded, special interest group, they can be a real pain and a financial drain.

"General [David] Petraeus has, by his own hand, become a quintessential poster child of this fundamentalist Christian religious predation, via his unadulterated and shocking public endorsement of a book touting both Christian supremacy and exceptionalism," MRFF [Military Religious Freedom Foundation] founder Michael Weinstein expressed in a statement to Military.com.

What might prompt this rather extreme and virulent castigation of an acknowledged American military hero; a man said to be the source of "the surge" strategy in Iraq, a strategy which has apparently defeated the insurgency?

A faith-based book for military personnel has given opponents of Gen. David Petraeus more fuel for protests though the author claims to have been the one who made the mistake.

[The author was referring to his attempts at securing] "… comments for recommending [his] book."

"I believe there was a basic misunderstanding on my part that the comments were publishable," Army Chaplain (Lt. Col.) William McCoy wrote in an Aug. 19 email to Military.com, the nation’s largest military and veteran membership organization.

The author was referring to endorsements for his book, Under Orders: A Spiritual Handbook for Military Personnel, by Petraeus and Maj. Gen. Mark Hertling, who said the book “should be in every rucksack for those times when soldiers need spiritual energy" and called it “inspirational,” respectively.

The endorsements, McCoy explained, “were intended for me personally rather than for the general public."

Despite the author's claims, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, a watchdog group, is calling for an investigation.

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"MRFF is now officially putting both Army chaplain Lt. Col. Bill McCoy and General Petraeus on notice not to destroy any of the written or electronic records of their communications about this [issue]," added the former Air Force judge advocate general and White House counsel during the Reagan administration.

According to the MRFF, Petraeus’s endorsement of the book was brought to its attention when Weinstein noticed a half-page ad for the 2008 edition of the 3-year-old book in the Air Force Times. Though Weinstein was initially reading the Aug. 11 issue of the publication to probe an interview with Air Force Chief of Chaplains Maj. Gen. Cecil Richardson, the title of McCoy’s book caught his eye and prompted him to find out what the book was about.

“[A]nd this is what we found – a pro-Christian, anti-atheist book heartily endorsed by none other than Gen. David Petraeus, a slap in the face from the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq to the 21 percent of the men and women fighting there who define themselves as atheists or having no religious preference,” wrote Chris Rodda, a freelance writer and researcher for the MRFF, in a recent article.

This post is not about MRFF's right to exist, they do! This post is about an irrational effort to harass an active military leader during wartime for no other reason than that he is a Christian and it fits the MRFF's agenda ... which is apparently the promotion of atheism.

Regardless of what MRFF proclaims, bottom-line it's Petraeus' faith which prompts their attack; it's his willingness to publicly acknowledge his personal relationship with Christ that results in this harassment.

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