I’m halfway through the book. I recognize that it’s told from a Michael Moore perspective but it’s actually having the opposite affect on me. Private military contractors are something that I’ve been ignorant of but accept the need for them. It’s giving me a greater respect for those people that do this work and the need for these types. If you haven’t seen the book, check it out.
I looked at that one, but when I read the blurb on the back about Eric Prince’s “ties to the radical Christian right”, that told me pretty much all I needed to know about the perspective. I decided to get “Licensed to Kill” instead. I still want to read the BW book, but I’ll just borrow it, or get it at the used book store.
The Lefties on the liberal blogs I sometimes post on have delusions of a miltarized Christian army converting everyone at gunpoint and generally being uncultured while they’re doing it. Maybe they will at least learn something about guns when they read it.
I just finished watching “Shadow Company” it’s a documentary that shows the good, bad, and the ugly part of “Private Military Companies”
Didn’t JC say," Go into all the world and MAKE disciples?" 
How we “make” them is up to us, heh?
Christian army? As if… Most I have met wouldn’t touch a gun…
As for the book, does it accurately document the rise of Blackwater? I have always viewed the rise of that training and outfitting company a HUGE SUCCESS and would like to see the steps leading up to the huge organization they are now… A true American success story… but TIMING and VISION had more to do with it than anything else, I suspect…
Rmpl
Agree. Most Christians are pacifists in that they believe that God will protect them from all Evil. God expects you to defend his holy temple (your body) and the lives of your loved ones.
Muslims have legions of people ready to kill anyone that stands in their way of world domination. Liberals don’t seem concerned by this. They are however concerned about a small group of men that are Christian and pro gun. :rolleyes:
C4
Shadow Company has some good interviews and some RTFO ones – poorly setup and a lot of inaccuracies.
Part of the problem with our (corporate and individual) image, is despite we protect US DOS, DOD, USAID, NGO’s etc - is that many companies, clients, and our contracts forbid us talking to the press – so we can be slandered in public and are not able to defend ourselves.
*and now for some Eurobashing
The worst part is we take in the neck from a lot of countries that don’t even have a stake in the GWOT, well they do as Western Christian nations but have chosen to abdicate that responsibility, and criticise those that have accepted the responsibility.
In the beginning a lot of clowns got into the industry, a lot of these where more or less pushed out, but there are still a few rotten apples that give us all a bad rep. Others that like to play thenselves up, and badmouth teammates or others later on in books etc.
But…but…but…a bunch of fundamentalist Christians with guns are going to take over and make a theocracy just like the fundamentalist Christians with guns did in 1776-1789, right???
I mean, if it hadn’t been for all the Hillary Clinton/ACLU types in Philadelphia during the Constitutional Convention we would have ended up with a theocracy!
…and they accuse Christian conservatives of historical revisionism.
I thought the same thing after the first chapter. I ended up reading the entire book. It took me awhile because I could only take so much BS at one time.
In the first 3 chapters, the author outlines Prince’s support for Christian beliefs and that he’s in fact Roman Catholic. How he believes in the importance of family and being a good father. Also how we need to be outspoken and protect our Christian beliefs or we will find that, as he puts it, “Muslim, will be the only game in town”. His definition of multiculturalism is very accurate: “…to affirm every other culture but our own.” Being a Canadian, born in the Philippines, I have watched how our country has continued to do this and it sickens me. Reading the book, I understand the need to go down certain paths that others with less commitment would heed to travel. One thing that I found interesting is the training that was provided to law enforcement shortly after the Columbine massacre. It’s changed the way law enforcement attacks that problem. Our society appears apologetic when we embrace those things that fight the evils in the world. It goes back to the “sheep, the wolves and the sheepdog” concept. We need more sheepdogs in this world!
Liberals who don’t like private military organizations should try actually reading the US Constitution rather than let the ACLU spoon feed it to them. Congress can authorize their use.
“Agree. Most Christians are pacifists in that they believe that God will protect them from all Evil.”
Far too broad a brush there…my experience is almost exactly the opposite.
Most of the Christians I know are not (far from it) pacifists
How exactly did the crusades happen???
Good and bad people in the world…both religious and secular…
At least the religious ones that are “bad” feel bad about it:D
But nobody who understands our God and history believes they will be “protected”
I live in Boulder County…where most people believe in Pacifism and not God
Splain That
Wow, Boulder, as in Colorado… We’re practically neighbor! I’ll bet most folks in Boulder don’t get that Congress can authorize the use of mercs too. As in Article 1, Section 8, Clause 11: To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
Don’t know, we have a lot of Christian friends in VA and in Ohio (at our old and new church) and they are generally not into firearms and kind of look down at them.
C4
I was thinking the exactly the same thing. It definitely illustrates that they don’t have a grip on reality.
I am frequently disappointed by the number of my fellow Catholics who are anti-gun rights, almost universally out of ignorance. When I point out that the late Pope JPII reminded us (in his 1995 Encyclical) that it’s not only our right but our duty to defend ourselves and others, it’s usually met with a blank stare or rolling eyes.
I think, NickB is from the Boulder area also.
I grew up in Boulder county and still visit friends up there all the time.
Rhino,
You are not alone brother. Fortunately, my former College Chaplain/Priest grasps this concept as well and often shares this opinion within the circle of former parishioners and students that he has mentored spiritually. He is a brilliant Theologian with a PHD in Theology from McGill University Sigma Cum Laude. Since 9/11 his well researched perspective on the Crusades, Spain’s Reconquista and subsequent “Inquisition”, as well as the “Religion of Peace” and their relation to the GWOT is a refreshing balance to the PC driven revisionist history that currently passes for education.
Keep the faith.
S/F
I’m posting/working from a cafe in the new 29th Street Mall in Boulder right now. 
Sounds like my kind of guy!
I’m hesitant to even broach the subject with my parish priest (he’s only been here less than two years). It could either be a huge relief, or it could open a can of worms … and the worms would be everywhere!
I know JP II was allegedly against the war in Iraq specifically, or so we’ve been led to believe. At that point in his life, I’m not sure what trickled down to the rest of us was really what he said or believed. He sure was a bada** when it came to commies, with no room for debate!
The majority of Christians I grew up around were hunters, recreational shooters, with a smattering of gun nuts. Of course this is in Missouri and Alabama.