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As a man with a passion for the Lord and a deep respect for our men in uniform, I'm curious to know how service in the military or law enforcement has affected your views of God and religion. Has it been difficult to keep the faith? Did service help you find it? Share you stories. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is here for you. https://www.lds.org/callings/military-relations?lang=eng
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I have ministered to many of our men coming home and although many do not share my faith exactly (I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints) I have found that many have come away needing healing and companionship. Sometimes a good congregation can provide that. Thank you and God Bless.
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May 27, 2014 22:17
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May 27, 2014 22:24
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God, Country, Corps. Errah?
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May 27, 2014 22:50
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Oh nice, BYOB is leaking.
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May 27, 2014 23:26
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allahu ackbar
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May 27, 2014 23:45
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http://youtu.be/UGGVy4RkUs0
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May 27, 2014 23:53
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xWji92N8RM
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May 28, 2014 00:17
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There was an atheist and freethinkers club on my ship's first cruise, but the dude that fronted it (the media DIVO) was an insufferable dick dawkins douchebag so I didn't go back. welp thats my god and country story, cya
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May 28, 2014 00:29
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May 28, 2014 00:30
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My old CO was basically a god of war and was the atheist lay leader. It was cool.
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May 28, 2014 00:59
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idgi are they trying to troll, im confused. help me to understand their ways, god.
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May 28, 2014 02:07
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i worship odin allfather and zeus thunderer
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May 28, 2014 02:34
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:i worship odin allfather and zeus thunderer You and your "old gods" are adorable. Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
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May 28, 2014 02:50
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Cash rules everything around me.
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May 28, 2014 13:22
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May 28, 2014 13:29
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friend of the family DEATH TURBO posted:allahu ackbar
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May 28, 2014 13:59
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hail satan
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May 28, 2014 14:05
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heil hitler
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May 28, 2014 14:07
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op, if I accept jesus or whatever and pray for an asteroid strike will it happen? if i dont wake up tmrw because the earth has been shattered into oblivion, that would own so hard
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May 28, 2014 14:13
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FIDEL CASHFLOW posted:if i dont wake up tmrw because the earth has been shattered into oblivion, that would own so hard
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May 28, 2014 14:44
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god is dead and so can you op
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May 28, 2014 17:12
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I go into an autistic fit of rage at the mention of religion and always refused to bow my head when the chaplain asked us to > : )
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May 28, 2014 17:59
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Every day I wake up I thank the one and true god Curtis LeMay for dead nips and a noble attempt of eradicating anime before it ever existed
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May 28, 2014 18:18
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Bolow posted:Every day I wake up I thank the one and true god Curtis LeMay for dead nips and a noble attempt of eradicating anime before it ever existed Sherman is god you human being, LeMay was just one of his acolytes. Booblord Zagats posted:I call God by his one true name.
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May 28, 2014 18:33
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i agree with everything in this thread 
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May 29, 2014 00:23
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Does anybody actually go to the churches on base?? Poor chaplains probably just take a nap in there on Saturdays.
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May 29, 2014 01:02
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powerful weedlock posted:Does anybody actually go to the churches on base?? Poor chaplains probably just take a nap in there on Saturdays. The one on Iwakuni had like 4 dozen people going to Sunday services I think. I only knew 1 dude who went there and he was a dried up well short of being Buffalo loving Bill.
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May 29, 2014 01:06
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powerful weedlock posted:Does anybody actually go to the churches on base?? Poor chaplains probably just take a nap in there on Saturdays.
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May 29, 2014 01:31
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shyduck posted:Only during basic, because they would announce sports scores and I could chill for a bit Well, yeah. Everyone goes during basic.
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May 29, 2014 02:09
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I knew three Mormon dudes. One kept on the straight and narrow(and was a clerk), another got pretty foul-mouthed, and the other one became foul-mouthed, dipped, and drank a lot
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May 29, 2014 05:40
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powerful weedlock posted:Does anybody actually go to the churches on base?? Poor chaplains probably just take a nap in there on Saturdays. I was only ever at one USAF base with a rabbi, and I took full advantage of that and got real close with our tiny base Jewish family. Even went full on orthodox for a while (that's like Sunni Kikedom) and was really keeping the faith. Then I retired. Sooooo.. No. Those chapels tend to be awfully goddamned empty. Probably why we lost the wars.
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May 29, 2014 06:04
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The chapel at Nellis seemed pretty full the one time I drove by on a Saturday evening (I'm assuming it was Saturday night Mass, the exception-clause Mass for Catholics who observant enough to go every week but not observant enough to wake their asses up on Sunday). Of course Nellis is like ground zero for retirees who can't let go, so them voluntarily going to church on base shouldn't really be surprising.
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May 29, 2014 06:12
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Slim Pickens posted:I knew three Mormon dudes. One kept on the straight and narrow(and was a clerk), another got pretty foul-mouthed, and the other one became foul-mouthed, dipped, and drank a lot When I was in Afghanistan, we had a Mormon dude who started out straight and narrow and unironically used the term "Toby" while oblivious to its meaning. Before getting sent home for a medical condition, he poo poo his pants because he didn't make it to a wadi where he'd be out of sight. He came back from the wadi without his pants or sacred undergarments, and with his combat shirt pulled down like a short dress held in place with his tan belt. The strongest insult he used was to call someone a "dirty sow"... then one day he said "gently caress" in the TOC and everyone went quiet. Somehow was handed E5 after being sent home. He was a HUMINT dork. e: That fucker also managed to suck somebody's dick to get PRK right before we deployed, and I was never able to get it before or after. loving medics. loving Mormons. Naked Bear fucked around with this message at 06:18 on May 29, 2014 |
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May 29, 2014 06:14
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powerful weedlock posted:Well, yeah. Everyone goes during basic. The Mormons at Great Lakes RTC always had a smorgasbord of home made baked goods every Sunday. Plenty of atheists in foxholes these days, but if you're one in basic you're just screwing yourself.
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May 29, 2014 09:17
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Had like 6 of them in my small company of 50 people. All of them drank, none of them smoked though. One particular guy is in Leavenworth now or wherever the gently caress they put him.
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May 29, 2014 16:30
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May 29, 2014 17:36
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Ordrakon posted:As a man with a passion for the Lord and a deep respect for our men in uniform, I'm curious to know how service in the military or law enforcement has affected your views of God and religion. Has it been difficult to keep the faith? Did service help you find it? Share you stories. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is here for you. https://www.lds.org/callings/military-relations?lang=eng First a little background about me. I was raised in a Catholic family and went through the whole religious education thing in school and was confirmed by the local Bishop, etc. etc. Somewhere around 3rd or 4th grade I started to have serious doubts about the factual truth of the Bible, specifically the Old Testament's version of how the Earth was created and how life came to be. During basic training I attended Catholic mass but that was mostly just a way to get out of the barracks for a couple of hours on a Sunday morning. At my duty station in Germany I pretty much didn't do anything religious because I was too busy working and having fun living in Europe as a single 20-something. When I was deployed to Kuwait and Iraq in 2003 I had a few words with God during the invasion, especially during the sand storm that rendered us effectively blind for 24 hours. Later on during the first few months of the occupation of Iraq I got to see firsthand the effects of religious zealotry. I guess that I should point out my job in the Army was a 19D Armored Reconnaissance Specialist. The TL:DR on that job is that we shot guns and drove trucks (Humvees). The net result is that from 2003 I am an agnostic. I don't know for sure if there is a God or not and what form or forms he might manifest himself in. What I do know is that religious extremism of all stripes (Christian, Muslim, etc.) is a divisive and dangerous force.
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Arishtat posted:First a little background about me. I was raised in a Catholic family and went through the whole religious education thing in school and was confirmed by the local Bishop, etc. etc. Somewhere around 3rd or 4th grade I started to have serious doubts about the factual truth of the Bible, specifically the Old Testament's version of how the Earth was created and how life came to be. cool
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Arishtat posted:First a little background about me. I was raised in a Catholic family and went through the whole religious education thing in school and was confirmed by the local Bishop, etc. etc. Somewhere around 3rd or 4th grade I started to have serious doubts about the factual truth of the Bible, specifically the Old Testament's version of how the Earth was created and how life came to be. 
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