Krusaders for Khrist…This is THEIR Holy War, Not America’s

In the spirit of the New Year and my goal to make a clear message available…I am no longer going to use the confusing small ‘c’ to spell ‘c’hristian when I am referring to heretical Christian Dominionists. Too many were getting snagged up on whether I am anti-Christian because of the overt subtleness of that distinction.

So I am now going to consistently use a clearer spelling – “Khristian”. And if this continues to cause confusion? Well, those folks will just have to move along. I make it abundantly obvious in repeated phraseology that I am NOT anti-Christian. So let me re-phrase this more clearly…I AM anti-Khristian!

Using this new term…here is an article about a Krusader for Khrist, one Colonel Donald P. Higgins of the United States Air Force.

With permission from Mikey Weinstein at the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, I am re-posting this in its entirety. I must say that it always give me encouragement when I see others writing on Christian Dominionism and its inherent dangers.I especially appreciate when I see articles like this that point out how ridiculously obvious they are…yet so many continue to protest their very existence. Notice the rank of this officer…

Defenders of Christ and War

It’s takes a sense of entitlement to kill someone, more so to self-consciously prepare to kill someone. Some serving in the U.S. military seeing themselves on a holy mission from a Christian God are up to the task, a little too enthusiastically for Americans who want their country officially secular and substantively humanistic.

Concerns about a growing dominionist Christian movement seeking to control the U.S. military academies and foreign policy persist as America continues its two or three wars in what many fundamentalist American Christians consider a holy battle against Islam.

I’m hoping one episode from last year pertaining to military-dominionist Christians gets cleared up.

Last year, I wrote a piece, The Crusades, Still Killing for Christ, about the the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) and its founder and president, Mikey Weinstein working for a military free of religious coercion. The piece attracted the attention and comments of one gentleman named “Donnie” who proceeded to badmouth the MRFF and Weinstein.

The funny thing is, this anonymous Donnie bears a striking resemblance in tone and language to one Col Donald P. Higgins, “the key, on-scene, Inspector General investigator for the Department of Defense/United States Air Force in the 2005 investigation” of Weinstein’s charges of religions coercion and proselytizing at the United States Air Force Academy.

Higgins appears a nut who, after investigating anti-Semitism and proselytizing at the United States Air Force Academy actually sent e-mails to Weinstein last year composed of fabricated news articles mocking Weinstein, prompting a Sept. 2, 2009 response letter by Weinstein to U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. [See Fake, Col Higgins-authored Washington TimesArticle, and Fake, Col Higgins-authored New York Times Article.]

Same guy making comments to the The Crusades, Still Killing for Christ piece?

I did a trace on the Internet Provider (IP) address and this Donnie was commenting from an IP address at the University of Arkansas Community College at Morrilton, 1.7 miles from Col Donald Higgins’ home in rural Arkansas near Pine Bluff.

I asked Weinstein about the comments and said, ““If this is [Col.] Higgins, he is one crazy case. I can’t believe the IG’s office would assign Higgins as an investigator looking into proselytizing and religious coercion. Is this the same guy?”

Weinstein didn’t know for sure and Higgins refused to return phone calls.

Donnie responded to a query asking if his name is Higgins with this comment (reading in part):

That is certainly not my name, Leon. Are you a lawyer? Are you going to sue me to shut me up? That seems to be the favored MRFF tactic whenever someone uses facts to disagree with Weinstein or his mouthpieces like you–at least that’s the way I read his vicious propaganda.

Thinking this matter might get cleared up some time this year.

- via mal contends

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