I have been remiss in my posts recently. Busy trying to enjoy the last of summer. I just read this article and found it fascinating and disturbing and was anxious to post it to this blog. I'll respond to your last post later.
I find this story disturbing - and perhaps infuriating is not too strong a word. Through his faith this chaplain needlessly endangers the life of the soldier assigned to protect him. The Chaplain takes foolish and unnecessary risks - exposing himself to enemy fire when he could take cover - because he believes his god will protect him. But by doing so he recklessly risks the life of the soldier assigned to protect him. Another example of faith doing more harm than good. This Chaplain is a dangerous fool - he may get RP Specialist Chute killed because of his faith. Clearly god doesn't protect all his followers since lots of devote Christian US soldiers have come home dead.
This Chaplain doesn't deserve RP Specialist Chute's protection. The Chaplain has a moral obligation to not endanger soldiers lives in reckless unnecessary ways.
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