America’s Holy Warriors

[Bobbo539]

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The members of the armed forces are supposed to stay out of politics and religious affairs. Their oath of loyalty is to the constitution and not to a single person, even if that person is Jesus Christ. They swear to obey the orders of their officers and their commander-in-chief but their duty is to support and defend the constitution of the United States.

The armed forces and law enforcemens agencies of the U.S. are currently being infiltrated by religious fanatics with an agenda that is not democratic but, rather, theocratic. This is what the article reports. It's a development that should worry everyone who truly believes in a secular, liberal democracy. Especially people like yourself who have served their country in defence of those values.

Mickey Brausch

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I disagree respectfully. The institution of democracy is to govern based on a consensus of the people within its country. The consensus is comprised of economic, moral, and culturual rules, laws, and regulations. It doesn't matter where people within that country get their morality. They can get it from god, the bible, their parents, Nitzche, Charles Darwin, Marx, the reefer, patterns in the clouds, etc.

The military is exactally the same way, it is not run on Christian traditions, rather it is comrpised of a high number of Christians becuase of, again, the consensus within this country that I outlined above.

It is fundamentally not a theocracy if people can vote out the govening powers (which also control the military) when the people choose to do so.

[Bobbo539]

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If the majority is religious, and the state turns out as a theocracy, wouldn't that be good according to democratic ideals?

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Depends on how you define a democracy and how you think it ought to function. If you believe only 51% of people should be concerned at any one time, then your facetious statement holds.

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you lack a fundamental understanding of how the US government works