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Disbelief! US Army To Host Atheist Rock Concert

A concert event organized by atheist, agnostic and other non-theist soldiers has been cleared by the Army to take place next spring at Fort Bragg, concert organizers and a spokesman for the post said Monday. Organizers planned to hold the Rock Beyond Belief event this year, but they canceled after saying Bragg leadership was not providing the same support it gave to an evangelical Christian concert last fall. Supporters hailed the Army’s decision.

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A concert event organized by atheist, agnostic and other non-theist soldiers has been cleared by the Army to take place next spring at Fort Bragg, concert organizers and a spokesman for the post said Monday.

Organizers planned to hold the Rock Beyond Belief event this year, but they canceled after saying Bragg leadership was not providing the same support it gave to an evangelical Christian concert last fall.

Supporters hailed the Army’s decision.

“You know those goosebumps you get when your favorite song hits that sweet spot? I got those,” said Sgt. Justin Griffith, main organizer of the event and the military director of American Atheists, in an email. “I was overcome with joy and a sense of vindication.”

The plan is to hold the event on March 31 at the main parade field at Fort Bragg, where the Christian-themed Rock the Fort concert was held. Famed atheist Richard Dawkins is scheduled to appear, along with musicians, speakers and other entertainment.

“This just might be the turning point in our struggle for acceptance,” Griffith said. “I mean it. I get letters daily from service members asking for advice on how to `do something like what’s going on at Fort Bragg’.”

Final approval for the event came last week, Bragg spokesman Ben Abel said. The festival will get the same treatment from Bragg that other groups receive, he said.

“Our logistical support will be the same as what we did for Rock the Fort,” he said, meaning Bragg will provide the venue, security and basic utilities. “That’s what we provide for any private organization.”

The event had its origin in the Rock the Fort concert last fall, which was organized by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. Groups like Americans United for the Separation of Church and State opposed the event, saying it was an unconstitutional use of military resources aimed at winning converts to Christianity. Military leaders at the time said any private event, regardless of religious orientation, would receive the same level of support, and Griffith, stationed at Bragg, decided to take them up on that.

 

The initial Rock Beyond Belief concert was scheduled to happen in April, but Griffith called it off after saying Bragg leadership wasn’t offering the same support it had given to the Christian event, which Bragg leaders denied. There were disagreements over the venue, the potential size of the crowd and promotional materials, but especially on the subject of funding.

 

This time around, organizers of the secular festival raised $50,000 for the event, which will pay for speakers and entertainers and other expenses.

 

“There is no going back in to the `atheist closet,'” wrote Griffith, who has also organized a local chapter of Military Atheists and Secular Humanists for like-minded soldiers and veterans. “We’re going to be supported on post for the first time.”

 

Bragg, home to the U.S. Army Airborne and Special Forces, is one of the military’s largest bases. It has about 58,000 uniformed military personnel and roughly 13,000 civilian workers. The surrounding community, like much of North Carolina, is home to countless churches, including some with dedicated military ministries and pastors who participated in the Rock the Fort event.

 

But the Army’s decision to allow Rock Beyond Belief shouldn’t be seen as threatening to religious belief, said Mikey Weinstein, president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, which had promised to file a lawsuit if the concert wasn’t allowed to go ahead.

 

“It’s not a victory for atheism or agnosticism over any type of religion, it’s a victory for the Constitution,” he said.

 

Weinstein, who is scheduled to speak at the event, said that while he’s happy with the Army’s decision, his group is waiting to make sure the concert happens as planned before celebrating.

 

“I’m going to believe it when I see it,” he said. “We’ve been down this path before. It reminds me of Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown at the last minute.” source – AP

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SHOWTIME! US Central Command On Friday Says That F-16 Fighter Jets Have Arrived In The Middle East From Germany Ahead Of Impending Israeli strike On Iran.

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US Central Command announced on Friday that F-16 fighter jets have arrived in the Middle East from Germany ahead of an impending Israeli strike on Iran.

For the past few weeks, the entire Middle East region has been on edge, waiting for Israel to answer Iran back for, not one, but two military strikes against them. It looks like the moment of decision has arrived, borne witness to by the arrival of a squadron of F-16 fighter jets in the Middle East, courtesy of the United States. I think we can safely say that it’s about to go down.

Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.” Proverbs 20:18 (KJB)

It has been exciting to see Israel come roaring to life and taking the fight to their enemies instead of simply responding, but know this. Without taking out the nuclear weapons capabilities of Iran, beating Hamas and Hezbollah doesn’t amount to a hill of beans. Hamas is funded by Iran and so is Hezbollah, so that means the funding of terrorism will only stop when Iran is neutered. Iran has to go. Now.

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US F-16s arrive in Middle East as Israel prepares for Iran strike

FROM AL-MONITOR: “US Air Force F-16s from the 480th Fighter Squadron based at Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany arrive in the US Central Command area of responsibility,” CENTCOM wrote on X Friday. CENTCOM did not specify the exact Middle East base or bases the F-16s had reached. The nearest base to Israel is the Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan’s Azraq that has served as a main hub for US air force operations in the region.

Earlier this month, a squadron of US F-15s arrived at an undisclosed base, joining F-16s, advanced stealth F-22 Raptors and a number of US Navy ships already in the region. The reinforcements have arrived as Israel prepares for its promised retaliatory attack in response to Iran’s Oct. 1 ballistic missile attack on Israel, which came after the Israeli military’s killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Abbas Nilforoushan.

Israel’s plans were thrown off balance over the past week by a Hezbollah drone strike on Netanyahu’s private residence in Caesarea on Oct. 19 as well as a Pentagon leak that revealed alleged Israeli military preparations to attack Iran. The United States hopes, that despite the turbulence, Israel will keep its word on an informal agreement between the two nations in which Washington promised to reward Israel for not striking Iranian nuclear and oil facilities.

Meanwhile, the Pentagon said on Thursday that the US State Department has approved a potential $440 million sale of TOW missiles to Saudi Arabia.

“The proposed sale will improve the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s capability to meet current and future threats by enhancing the strength of its homeland defense,” the Pentagon’s statement read.

The Pentagon added that the sale “will support the foreign policy goals and national security objectives of the United States by improving the security of a partner country that is a force for political stability and economic progress in the Gulf Region.” READ MORE

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White House Says That Iran Is Preparing An Imminent Ballistic Missile Attack On Israel As Revenge For Destroying Hezbollah And Entering Lebanon

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The White House on Tuesday said the US believes Iran is preparing an imminent ballistic missile attack against Israel.

Everyone feels that something really big is in the verge of breaking out either politically, economically or biblically. The air is crackling with end times anticipation, and you can feel the electricity surging all around you, something is coming. Today, the White House announced that an imminent ballistic missile attack by Iran on Israel is about to be launched, and the Pentagon is drastically increasing the number of Air Force F-15E, F-16 and A-10 warplanes it has deployed in the Middle East region. Right now might be a really good time to be ‘prayed up’ with the Lord.

“Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you.” Habakkuk 1:5 (KJB)

The Pentagon is also keeping the Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier battle group in the region which would give the U.S. a substantial naval force with the arrival of the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier strike group midweek. Those deployments provide the U.S. with one carrier near the Red Sea and another in the Mediterranean. A Marine Amphibious Ready Group, which consists of some 2,200 Marines and sailors, is also in the Mediterranean, and defense officials say they are prepared to deploy still more forces if needed. Yes sir, something really big is surely coming.

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White House believes Iran is preparing imminent ballistic missile attack against Israel

FROM CNN NEWS: “The United States has indications that Iran is preparing to imminently launch a ballistic missile attack against Israel. We are actively supporting defensive preparations to defend Israel against this attack. A direct military attack from Iran against Israel will carry severe consequences for Iran,” a senior White House official said in a statement.

Tensions between Israel and Iran have ratcheted up significantly in recent weeks as Israel has stepped up its efforts against Hezbollah in Lebanon, an Iran-backed militant group. Israel on Monday launched a ground operation in southern Lebanon targeting Hezbollah. READ MORE

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Iran Is About To Find Out Just How Committed They Really Are To The ‘Axis Of Resistance’ With Their Militia Proxies That Regularly Attack Israel And The US

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Weeks after Israel invaded Gaza in response to Hamas’s deadly attack on Oct. 7, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei convened a meeting of militia leaders across an alliance Tehran calls ‘the axis of resistance.’

Iran has been attacking Israel and the United States for many years now, not directly but through their Muslim terrorist proxies like the Houthis in Yemen, Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas and the PIJ in Gaza and the West Bank just to name a few. Tehran supplies the military training through thier IRGC, as well as the rockets and missiles. In their excitement to do evil, they went just a tad overboard and killed 3 US soldiers. Uh-oh, the piper is about to come calling.

“The ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings of Media and Persia.” Daniel 8:20 (KJB)

If Trump or any other Republican was in the White House, the response to Iran would likely have happened already but Biden will do something substantial, he wants very much to look strong in an election year. That said, he just might go a little too far and trigger WWIII. That’s the memo.

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Iran’s ‘Axis of Resistance’ Faces Moment of Truth After Attacks on Israel, U.S. Base

FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: The attack, which Khamenei had publicly praised as an “epic victory,” marked a crescendo of four decades of Iranian efforts to train and arm a network of nonstate militant groups as a way to threaten its enemies and extend its influence in the Middle East.

But behind closed doors, the Iranian leader told senior Hamas representatives, along with Lebanese, Iraqi, Yemeni and other Palestinian militia leaders, that Tehran had no intention of directly entering the conflict and widening the war, according to two high-ranking officials from Hamas and two from Hezbollah. Side battles, he told the delegates, risked distracting the world from Israel’s devastating incursions in Gaza. The message: Hamas was on its own.

Now the axis faces a moment of truth. As Iran’s allies stoke even more fires across the region—from attacks on shipping in the Red Sea to Sunday’s drone strike that killed three U.S. troops in Jordan—they are pushing their benefactor closer to the brink of a direct conflict with Washington that it has long sought to avoid.

Iranian military and financial power forms the backbone of the alliance, but Tehran doesn’t exert full command and control over it. Not every member shares Iran’s Shiite ideology, and all the groups have domestic agendas that sometimes conflict with Tehran’s. Some operate in geographically isolated areas, making it tricky for Iran to provide weapons, advisers and training. That includes Hamas, which is a Sunni movement, or the Houthis in Yemen, whose attacks on shipping have upended global trade flows and triggered U.S. and U.K. counterstrikes.

U.S. officials blamed Sunday’s drone strike on an Iran-backed group, and the White House on Monday said it believed the perpetrators were supported by Kataib Hezbollah, an Iranian militia ally based in Iraq, with forces in Syria. President Biden said he was weighing how to retaliate. Iran rejected any involvement.

For Tehran, the power of the axis lies in the plausible deniability that comes from each member’s operational and territorial autonomy. Iran gets to distance itself from the militias even as they serve Iran’s strategic interests, countering U.S. and Israeli power in the region. READ MORE

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