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Author name: Michael L. Weinstein, Davin Seay

 : With God on Our Side: One Man's War Against an Evangelical Coup in America's Military
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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 320
EAN num: 9780312374839
ISBN number: 0312374836
Label: St. Martin's Griffin
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 288
Printing Date: February 19, 2008
Publishing house: St. Martin's Griffin
Release Date: February 19, 2008
Sale Popularity Level: 223857
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One of the most elite educational institutions in the world, the Air Force Academy has, from its inception, attracted the best and the brightest, producing leaders not only in the military but throughout American society.
     In recent years, however, the Academy has also been producing a cadre of zealous evangelical Christians intent on creating a fundamentalist power base at the highest levels of our country.
     With God on Our Side is shocking exposé of life inside the United States Air Force Academy and the systematic program of indoctrination sanctioned, coordinated, and carried out by fundamentalist Christians within the U.S. military.
     It is also the story of Michael L. Weinstein, a proud Academy graduate and the father of two graduates and a current cadet, who single-handedly brought to light the evangelicals’ utter disregard of the constitutional principle of separation of church and state that is so essential to the nation’s military mission. Weinstein’s war would pit him and his small band of fellow graduates, cadets, and concerned citizens against a program of Christian fundamentalist indoctrination that could transform our fighting men and women into “right-thinking” warriors more befitting a theocracy. In the process, he would come face to face with religious bigotry and at its most extreme and fight an unrelenting battle to save his beloved Academy, the ideals it stood for, and the very future of the country.
     An important book at a critical time in our nation’s history, With God on Our Side is the story of one man’s courageous struggle to thwart a creeping evangelism permeating America’s military and to prevent a taxpayer-funded theocracy in which only the true believers have power.
 
 




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Rated by buyers 3 out of 5 stars - WORTH A LOOK INTO THIS DISTURBING 'THING'
Weinsteins documented how a particular Christian sect with a disturbing "end times" agenda has worked itself into every level of the U.S. military! ...gee GW..thanks!

He talks about flyers at the academy...for 'LAST TEMPTATION' and is sharp enough to note that mels flavor is different...mels is catholic and gothic...while the 'endtimers' is protestant evangelical!!!!Still the academy pushes Mels movie!




Rated by buyers 5 out of 5 stars - Speaking Truth to Power
Superbly written, with tight prose, this is a dynamic page-turner that will grab and hold your attention. At a time when the Administration of President Bush is filled with "yes men", Mikey Weinstein, graduate of the Air Force Academy, former JAG, counselour to President Reagan and attorney for Ross Perot, does not shrink from speaking truth to power. The events and truths he exposes are both deeply troubling and liberating.

"With God on Our Side" reveals the transformation of Mikey Weinstein from a prominent attorney into a world-class civil rights activist - the Founder and President of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation. Within its pages Mikey's heart is exposed, along with his passion, his deep devotion to both his family and his Country. His love and commitment to the United States of America, its Constitution and its citizens are unsurpassed. From the moment he entered the Air Force Academy many years ago until now he has never wavered from honoring his pledge to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America.

Having experienced very first hand the tyrannical legacy of the Bush Administration's legacy of dismantling the Constitutionally-guaranteed wall of separation between Church and State, I know all too well that what Mikey exposes in the prescient volume is but the tip of the iceberg. Like Mikey's own sons, I too have experienced predatory proselyzing and blatant religious discrimination; whereas Mikey and his sons have experienced it at the Air Force Academy, my experience has been within the Department of Veterans Affairs and its medical facilities. Since Mikey founded the Military Religious Freedom Foundation he has advocated not only for active duty and reserve military personnel, but also veterans. His efforts have directly and positively impacted my own life.

There is not a book I would recommend more than Mikey Weinstein's "With God on Our Side." Buy the book, read it, and see for yourself the terrible consequences of the destruction of the First Amendment's guaranteed protection of religious liberty.




Rated by buyers 4 out of 5 stars - Witness to Evangelicals feeding on the Unchurched
A fast paced, quick read, Weinstein's account of the troubles at the Academy raises many disturbing questions. Unfortunately, the military routinely invades privacy and stories of antisemitism are hardly new. Therein lies the problem with anecdotal evidence and the way the issue has been framed here. The separation of church and state, indeed civilian control of the military, has never been all that secure, resting, in part, on vague notions of privacy. Because Weinstein assumes the military is subject to clear, established Supreme Court principles, we are led to believe his is a reaction to an insubordinate, insurgent military. His stance does not allow us to ask whether the Court's principles are sufficient to protect everyone, including agnostics, and if it is a trustworthy agency to resist the attacks of evangelicals, particularly on those lacking religious affiliation.



Rated by buyers 1 out of 5 stars - A Conspiracy Nut
Because a person believes in God and is a member of the Military, therefore, that individual, motivated by their belief in God, conspires to overthrow the government of the United States. Now you know what it's about, save your money for something worthwhile.



Rated by buyers 5 out of 5 stars - Beware of religious fascists
More than two years ago the author of this book started the Military Religious Freedom Foundation as a watchdog to make the military obey the laws of separation of Church and State. His concern started with a specific evil at his alma mater, the Air Force Academy, the chronic harassment and intimidation by evangelicals to pressure Catholics, liberal Christians, Jews, and others to assent to a right wing, primitive faith. Weinstein explains how the military has been taken over by a fundamentalist agenda. What these chaplains are doing is a blatant violation of the famous wall between Church and State.

Various chaplaincy codes flatly prohibit the "proselytizing of any religion, faith or practice."(p. 74) In the command structure of superior and inferior of the military this may put government in the person of an officer in the position of commanding a soldier or cadet to convert or else. This prohibition of evangelizing the fundies reject as curtailing their freedom of religion, claiming that making converts is enjoined as an integral part of their religion. Anything less, they claim, is anti-Christian bigotry, a bias against the majority, and discrimination against their belief. Remember, in most circumstances when fundies speak of Christianity it does not include Roman Catholics and liberal or mainline denominations.

Mikey Weinstein has qualification to take on this struggle few can match. A family tradition of father, son, and grandchildren graduating from the Air Force Academy, law degrees and experience of service in the White House, and a network of political allies. The book is a narrative of events at the Air Force Academy and the military in general which lead Weinstein to found the organization. The book is a quick and easy read. It seems part of a push back on the inroads made by "born again" religious fascists on the administration of the country. In the long run I do think the believers in fascist Christian authority will lose.

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