Is Army Symbol Religious?




The emblem says "Pro deo et humanitate" or "For God and humanity." 

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation asked the Army this week to change the emblem of Evans Army Community Hospital at Fort Carson, outside Colorado Springs.  Lt. Col. Steve Wollman said the emblem had been approved by the Army Institute of Heraldry and has been in use since 1969.

Wollman said references to doctors serving God and humanity date to the time of Hippocrates, a pre-Christianity Greek physician.   The cross, which has a pointed base, is both an emblem of mercy and a symbol dating to the Middle Ages, when pilgrims carried a cross with a spiked base to mark the site of a camp.

Mikey Weinstein, president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, said that's a reference to the Crusades and could embolden U.S. enemies who want to portray the war on terror as a Christian war on Islam.

"This continues to add more fodder to the argument that we are Crusaders," Weinstein said. "It's exactly what fundamentalist Muslims want."

The religious watchdog group says a cross and motto on the emblem of an Army hospital in Colorado violates the constitutional requirement for separation of church and state and should be removed.  Mr. Weinstein and his group need to read and comprehend the Constitution.  The Constitution says freedom of religion and not freedom from religion.

This is the same group who persuaded the Army to withdraw an invitation to evangelist Franklin Graham to speak at the Pentagon on May 6, the National Day of Prayer.

Representative Jack Kingston, (R-GA), asked the House Armed Services Committee this week to hold hearings on what he called "a growing movement in the military to censor certain biblical teachings."

This anonymous quote sums it up:

I cannot believe that people have come so far in their hatred for Christianity that they need to have every cross removed just so less than 1/100th of the population can stop feeling guilty for their sins. I feel sad for each and every human being who feels the need to join these ridiculous pursuits. I will pray for each and every one of you.

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