{"id":1414,"date":"2001-11-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-11-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/11\/27\/2001-11-27-canada-military-chaplains-unhappy-with-a-generic-god\/"},"modified":"2001-11-27T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-11-27T12:00:00","slug":"2001-11-27-canada-military-chaplains-unhappy-with-a-generic-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/11\/27\/2001-11-27-canada-military-chaplains-unhappy-with-a-generic-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Military Chaplains Unhappy With a &#8220;Generic God&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.thewhig.com\/news\/011120\/5373695.html\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>CANADA, NOVEMBER 20, 2001: Asking military chaplains to forego their Christian beliefs during public services represents a new low in political correctness, says Canadian alliance member of parliament Art Hanger. &#8220;How on earth can a Christian chaplain represent a Muslim cleric?&#8221; asked the former defense critic. &#8220;Unless they&#8217;re going to pray to a generic god, how can they represent other faiths? The military office of the chaplain general issued a new policy on public prayer last summer, asking its chaplains not to refer to certain fundamental aspects of their faith. Some of those references include the Lord&#8217;s Prayer, as well as certain traditional Christian phrases like &#8220;Father, Son and Holy Spirit.&#8221; Hanger, an Alberta MP, said the recent policy change has more to do with politics than the makeup of today&#8217;s Canadian military. For others, including devout Roman Catholic and former soldier Peter Story, the change is welcome. &#8220;I totally agree with what they&#8217;ve done and I think it&#8217;s important,&#8221; he said. He added that it&#8217;s not about being &#8220;generic,&#8221; but rather its an effort to include people of all faiths.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE CANADA, NOVEMBER 20, 2001: Asking military chaplains to forego their Christian beliefs during public services represents a,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}