Please look at this young man's post, with pictures, of a "Men's Night Out" which was actually a recruiting effort at a fundamentalist church. I'm not sure what to say. I don't write diaries often at all but I wanted to let everyone know about this. Take a look.
Recruiting in church
via Rigorous Intuition, which calls it 'sad' and 'disturbing' and I have to say it creeped me out.
More after the jump.
At this point Captain Sturecker preached to us in full dress uniform about his early faith was based in fear of going to hell, but now he doesn't need to fear death, and about his experiences in the black hawk afair. In particular he prayed after his first drive back to base (If you`ve seen the movie, he was the humvee driver with the injured man on strecher in the back. He was also the guy that said, "The difference in between heroes and cowards isn`t the fear it`s what they do with it"), and after that even though the vehicle was shot to hell, he had no casualties. He even watched an RPG barely miss its' mark and deflect off his hood. Every word of this might be true, but it was also part of a "The lord will protect you in the military" themed sermon. I have never had both respect and disgust for a single individual with such volume in my life.
I'll be open to hear what anyone thinks of this.