If this was funny I’d say, at least they didn’t quote General Boykin, but it isn’t funny.

I get angry, frustrated, then sorrowful, and I wish people would speak up. Like Big Daddy, I’m not holding my breath.

You are correct Mark, the United Bible Societies that teamed up to provide for their countries troops are none denominational. And they provide them for free, I see no evidence of a defense contract.

The American Bible Society provided the US military with camo covers - 3 hundred thousand in the 1991 Gulf War, I couldn’t find if they added extras, they will provide custom volume  orders. I’d be curious to know what extras are added for the military.

Ethics Daily: http://www.ethicsdaily.com/article_detail.cfm?AID=8986

Last night, I was sitting in on a Organizational Theory lecture where the professor was contrasting the corporate cultures of Mary Kay Cosmetics and the US Military. When one of his slides listed Patton as one of the heros after a previous slide had mentioned the golden-rule ethic of Mary Kay, I piped up with a Patton quote “Your job is not to die for your country, but to get the other blankety-blank to die for his.” Of course, I bowlderized the quote some, but that’s do unto others before they do unto you.

There’s also a difference beween the Lifeway Soldiers bible and the Canadian Forces edition; the Lifeway one is published by a particular denomination and is free to carry it’s denominational quirks and ideological spin. The CF edition seems to be designed for all Christians in the military and thus needs to leave the extra material. Somewhat apples and oranges, although the Lifeway orange err more than a bit a bit on the jingoistic.

This is indeed alarming. And alarming is being nice.

I hope a few Southern Baptists will see the theological flaws in Lifeway’s new military Bible. Though, I’m not holding my breath!