The whole story behind the burned Bibles

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Gordon James Klingenschmitt of the Pray in Jesus’ Name Project, a former U.S. Navy chaplain, took out an advertisement in

Human Events

, a conservative publication, with the headline, “BREAKING NEWS: Pentagon Burns Soldiers Bibles – Military Chaplains Attacked.”

The story begins, “The Pentagon under the Obama Administration has just acknowledged seizing and burning the privately owned Bibles of American soldiers serving in Afghanistan.”

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