Army “God and Country” Recruit Poster

A poster with the phrase “On a mission for both God and country” on display outside a Phoenix recruiting station has been removed. The text on the poster was changed by the local recruiting personnel and was not cleared by command headquarters, so we are told. Many who objected to the poster no doubt would have had no problem with it if it just referred to a mission for country. But even this is wrong. U.S. troops don’t go on missions for the country. They serve an evil government and its foreign policy. What is even worse, of course, is that many Christians who walked by the sign probably thought it was great just the way it was even though nothing could be further from God than the U.S. military.

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