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MRFF stops mandatory military training titled "Leadership Lessons of the Lord Jesus Christ" [1]

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Date: 2023-03-03

On behalf of 112 junior enlisted military personnel and the senior NCO who was speaking for them, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) has stopped yet another fundamentalist Christian officer from attempting to convert their subordinates via mandatory military training.

This time, it was mandatory training titled "Leadership Lessons of the Lord Jesus Christ.”

When confronted by the senior NCO, who happens to be Jewish, (although the 112 junior enlisted come from all religious persuasions, including Christianity, as well as non-religious), the “Officer in Charge” (OIC) who came up with this clearly proselytizing training ludicrously claimed that it was not religious, but would "only focus on Jesus the military leader.” Jesus the military leader? What Bible is this guy reading?

The OIC further said that he chose Jesus as the subject for this mandatory military training “because Jesus is respected as a model of Godly leadership by all worldwide even if you’re not yet a Christian”

NOT YET a Christian? Apparently, this proselytizing officer expects those service members who are NOT YET Christian to BECOME Christian. But that’s not surprising considering that this OIC belongs to Cadence International, one of the large fundamentalist Christian parachurch organizations found on every military base, an organization that has declared that “The Military is Our Mission Field” and that “the U.S. military community has proven to be one of the largest, most responsive sub-cultures today.” Cadence is “dedicated to reaching the military communities of the United States and of the world with the Good News of Jesus Christ,” and the OIC, with his "Leadership Lessons of the Lord Jesus Christ,” was presumably trying to do his bit to fulfill Cadence’s convert-the-military mission.

The senior NCO’s conversation with the OIC ended with the OIC telling them, “if you or the other objectors didn’t like it you can complain to my chain of command.”

But it wouldn’t be the NCO who would go to this obstinate OIC’s chain of command to stop his malfeasant mandatory Jesus training. It would be MRFF founder and president Mikey Weinstein.

The NCO, after getting nowhere with the OIC, went to one of their base’s MRFF representatives. MRFF has volunteer representatives on nearly every military installation, many of them active military themselves.

Mikey contacted the OIC’s chain of command, and the next thing the MRFF representative heard from the senior NCO was that the mandatory "Leadership Lessons of the Lord Jesus Christ" training had been canceled by the OIC’s commander. Mission accomplished for those 112 junior enlisted personnel and their senior NCO!

Here’s the whole story as related in an email from the MRFF representative who the senior NCO went to:

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