Why US Army consider Evangelical Christians a "threat" ?

According to the Pew Forum around a quarter of American Christians are Evangelicals, as almost 80% of Americans classify themselves as Christians, I would hardly call this number "practically non-existent"

Scott Roeder murdering Wichita doctor George Tiller in 2009 was a belief that abortion is criminal and immoral, and that this belief went "hand in hand" with his religious beliefs. The group supporting Roeder proclaimed that any force used to protect the life of a born child is "legitimate to protect the life of an unborn child", and called on all Christians to "rise up" and "take action" against threats to Christianity and unborn life.

The Army Of God claimed responsibility for Eric Robert Rudolph's 1997 nail bombing of abortion clinics in Atlanta and Birmingham as well as an Atlanta lesbian bar

The murder of Barnett Slepian by James Charles Kopp, Oct. 23, 1998. Like Paul Jennings Hill, Eric Rudolph and Scott Roeder, James Charles Kopp is a radical Christian terrorist who has been exalted as a hero by the Army of God. On Oct. 23, 1998 Kopp fired a single shot into the Amherst, NY home of Barnett Slepian (a doctor who performed abortions), mortally wounding him. Slepian died an hour later

The murder of Alan Berg, June 18, 1984.The killing was linked to members of the Order, a white supremacist group that had marked Berg for death. Order members David Lane (a former Ku Klux Klan member who had also been active in the Aryan Nations) and Bruce Pierce were both convicted in federal court on charges of racketeering, conspiracy and violating Berg’s civil rights and given what amounted to life sentences.

On July 27, 2008, Christian Right sympathizer Jim David Adkisson walked into the Knoxville Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville, Tennessee during a children’s play and began shooting people at random. Two were killed, while seven others were injured but survived. Adkisson said he was motivated by a hatred of liberals, Democrats and gays, nn Coulter, meanwhile, viewed Tiller’s murder as a source of comic relief, telling O’Reilly, “ I don't really like to think of it as a murder. It was terminating Tiller in the 203rd trimester.”

Another Christian Right terrorist with ties to the Army of God was Paul Jennings Hill, who was executed by lethal injection on Sept. 3, 2003 for the murders of abortion doctor John Britton and his bodyguard James Barrett. Hill shot both of them in cold blood and expressed no remorse whatsoever; he insisted he was doing’s God’s work and has been exalted as a martyr by the Army of God.

The Centennial Olympic Park bombing, July 27, 1996. Paul Jennings Hill is hardly the only Christian terrorist who has been praised by the Army of God; that organization has also praised Eric Rudolph, who is serving life without parole for a long list of terrorist attacks committed in the name of Christianity. Rudolph is best known for carrying out the Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta during the 1996 Summer Olympics—a blast that killed spectator Alice Hawthorne and wounded 111 others. Hawthorne wasn’t the only person Rudolph murdered: his bombing of an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Alabama in 1998 caused the death of Robert Sanderson (a Birmingham police officer and part-time security guard) and caused nurse Emily Lyons to lose an eye.

Rudolph’s other acts of Christian terrorism include bombing the Otherwise Lounge (a lesbian bar in Atlanta) in 1997 and an abortion clinic in an Atlanta suburb in 1997. Rudolph was no lone wolf: he was part of a terrorist movement that encouraged his violence. And the Army of God continues to exalt Rudolph as a brave Christian who is doing God’s work.

Clayton Waagner, claiming to act on the part of the "Virginia Dare Chapter" of the Army of God, mailed over 500 letters containing white powder to 280 abortion providers in 2001. The letters claimed that the powder was anthrax.

Why are you trying to deny that these people exist and that they are a threat?

The military does not consider Evangelical Christians a "threat" and there has been ZERO change in military policy regarding them since I first entered the Navy in 1973.

What the military does not tolerate and has never tolerated is Evangelical Christians who try to force their own particular set of beliefs on their subordinates by using their rank as leverage. THAT is the sort of thing that the military does not allow and has never allowed.

Back in 1974 I was in a squadron where an Electronic Warfare Officer had actually removed his headset during a combat mission because the EW Intercept Operators objected to his reading the Bible over the intercom in the middle of combat while they were trying to conduct a mission. Back at home plate, he was warned once about trying to his his rank (O-3) to require that the enlisted aircrew and maintenance crew join him in off-hours "Bible study." Shortly thereafter then when he VERY publicly told a Jewish EW Intercept Operator he was "going straight to Hell" because he was Jewish, that officer - based overseas - was administratively discharged within 6 weeks.

On the other hand, the best friend I had in the Navy was a born-again Christian who called me, an atheist, his "Best, if somewhat misguided, friend." When he was killed in a helo crash in 1982 he was visiting NAS Key West to choose housing and meet the Admiral, since he had been assigned as the Admiral's Aide and recommended for advance promotion and advance screening for command. He was definitely not punished for being a devout TRUE Christian.

The bogus story that the military is cracking down on Christians in general is pure BS. The bogus story that the military is suddenly cracking down on "Evangelicals" is also BS, as that has been military policy all along. This is a fable created by a minority who obviously do want the ability to use their rank to impose their personal beliefs on others.

Any officer or non-commissioned officer who has been proven to have tried to use his/her rank to impose beliefs on others or punish others for their beliefs SHOULD be immediately discharged from the military.

The US Army as a military branch of the US Government, holds no religion as a threat. We welcome all persons regardless of their race, sexual orientation, religion or national origin. We officially do NOT see evangelicals as a threat.

Now as a concerned Soldier and Citizen, I wholeheartedly agree with the statement that Evangelical Christians are akin to the Taliban in the United States. If they had their way, we would have an extreme version of government based on their idea of morality, as opposed to the freedoms that are outlined in the US Constitution.

I'm pretty sure the US army does not consider them a threat. Mostly because the army is not thee branch of government that deals with "dangerous" inside groups. At best the FBI or the NSA might...but I doubt it.

Evangelical Christians try and force their beliefs on everyone. Orthodox Christians practice their theology in private without stirring up trouble.

anything to support your unsubstantiated claim?

to my knowledge, armed forces do not paint with broadbrush simply based on religious affiliation when assessing their own citizens.

it takes more than just a religion to be labelled as threat in the ongoing operation. actually, there's usually a standing procedure of white/blacklisting the locals based on their known criminal and radical activities.

I am not sure that the US Army is particularly threatened by one specific strand of religion. It is at least not their official policy.

Democrats are a threat to me

And what country are you in? Ah, la la land. Okay.

It's hard to shoot and babble in tongues at the same time ... !