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Is the U.S. military chaplain a political commissar in the West? Are they real soldiers? Sasha Q&A Episode 42
Many people say that the military chaplain is the political commissar of the US military, but in fact, these are two different things.
Pastors are clergy, not propagandists.
They are psychological counseling, more like psychologists.
In times of war, the priests of the U.S. Army were at least equipped to the battalion level, but generally did not operate as such.
The U.S. military is generally based on army divisions, equipped with a priest section, and some chaplains under the army.
These priests would move from battalion to battalion, and the Navy and Air Force would be similar.
Air Force chaplains are directly assigned to bases, while the Navy is more stationed on large warships, such as aircraft carriers.
Many people don't understand why they should be equipped with military chaplains.
As long as you've been to the United States, you know what's going on.
Judy Foster starred in a film called "Time-Lapse Contact", which has a shot.
Using information from aliens, they built a shuttle machine for a space wormhole, which was piloted by volunteers.
Judy Foster is the most powerful candidate.
However, during the selection committee interview, one of the commissioners was Judy Foster's boyfriend.
He didn't want his girlfriend to take the risk, so he asked a question: Do you believe in God?
Judy, an atheist, answered: I believe in science.
Because of this sentence, Judy lost the election and lost to an elderly astronaut.
Why?
The old astronaut, though less capable, was a devout Christian.
Why is that?
The mainstream society in the United States is the Christian society, and ninety percent of the people in the country believe in or have believed in God.
Then they are unlikely to choose an atheist in search of a possible Creator.
In today's American society, 2 percent of ordinary people believe in Islam, 1.5 percent believe in Judaism, 0.5 percent believe in Buddhism and Hinduism, and 0.1 percent believe in other religious denominations. Another 8% are atheists, do not believe in any religion, and are mostly tech workers or Kochi groups.
Otherwise, they are basically all Christians.
The soldiers who join the U.S. military will not be scientists, and their proportion of Christians is higher, reaching 95%.
And americans, from birth, live inseparable from Christianity.
Children are baptized at birth, and children follow their parents to church.
Growing up, many people choose Christian weddings.
On deathbed, a pastor is needed for final repentance.
After death, Christian funerals are also presided over by pastors.
Even if you don't believe in Christianity, but you are in a Christian community, you cannot abandon it completely.
Even on the dollar, there are the words "We believe in God."
In the American national anthem, there is a passage that reads, "Build a nation, protect your homeland, and thank God for his power." We must win, justice belongs to us, "we trust in God." "This is a phrase that will never be forgotten."
In the oath of the US military, there is also a sentence of "God bless"
Therefore, it is impossible for the U.S. military not to have a priest, which is an important part of American life.
The role of pastors in the military is no different from that in the community.
They chatted with the soldiers, psychological counseling and comforted them according to religious principles.
Before the outbreak of war, most officers and soldiers would be very nervous, and some even could not withstand the pressure to commit suicide or kill people.
The priest's counsel can reduce their nervousness and irritability.
After the war broke out, the priest would regularly take the soldiers to pray, comfort the wounded, preside over funerals, write letters to the relatives of the fallen soldiers, and so on.
Pastors generally don't get into the line of fire because there's no need for that.
Like the personnel of the field hospital, they were mostly in second-line positions.
Only in a few cases, such as when the army is facing the enemy for a long time, can the priest enter the trenches of the front line.
Doctors and nurses wear pistols to prevent being slaughtered by the enemy, while priests are unarmed.
Because priests are generally not in danger, no one will kill them.
The Bible believes that killing a pastor leads to going straight to hell and being expelled from the church.
The history of American military chaplains is very long, appearing as early as the time of the Revolutionary War.
In 1777, the reverend John Rossbruch was shot and killed by a stray bullet, the first priest to die in his army.
There were more than 8,000 priests in the U.S. military in World War II, and there are as many as 3,000 today.
Strictly speaking, they were not soldiers, but special clergy.
According to the Geneva Conventions, priests are not treated as prisoners of war after being captured and can continue their clergy in prisoner-of-war camps.
Of course, almost all Christian countries have military priests, such as Russia.
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