US Military Treatment Of Atheists
 

I'm sure many of you have heard about the disparaging remarks made by military personnel about Tillman and his family. Hopefully you were as disgusted by this as I. I wanted to think it was because of the publicity.
But, I was wrong and I knew I was.

Now we know the real reason there are no atheists in foxholes.

Exactly, bigotry.
I have always found that little saying to be incredibly insulting, some health care morons use it too.

there was no shortage of atheists while i was in.

Good to hear.
I think it depends on who you are serving with and who your CO is.
It should not. Religion should never enter into it, it is a personal matter alone.

Reprinted from another board, with permission.

Personally I feel that the God Corps are a BLATANT infringement on church and state and should not exist in any form or fashion and should be disbanded.
They should be offered a door or a weapon and given a choice.

I presume the briefing mentioned in the quote above was a required one. As a result, everyone had to sit through the chaplain's trite little invocation. This is annoying if one is an atheist, but not the end of the world. The military does not force religious service attendence upon its members. If one is going to go on some crusade against the armed forces, I can think of at least a 100 better causes, rather than whether some idiot wants to make a blanket pronouncement on people's responses when facing death.

I've always heard that most people call for their Mommy, for what its worth.

His crusade isn't against the military, it's against Christians.

I would love to hear any stories of an atheist stating that they would not attend a meeting with Chaplains, which are officers (a travesty).
Hilarity would ensure, I'm sure.
I FULLY support our troops, that is why I am against this breech of the separation of church and state and forced intrusion of their personal worship on their behalf.
There are so many things one can do than fight for the rights of our soldiers in these times?
Please, enlighten me.

Wrong as usual.
I love Christians and don't care what people believe, just what they do.
No unsolicited evangelizing, especially door-to-door/phone calls (religion or sales should be illegal).
No breech of church and state of any kind and all current needs to be eliminated. Specific to this thread the god corps.
No abuse of children by teaching them if they offend god by "sinning" or leaving the "faith" they will eternally tortured in god's personal dungeon that he created specially for them.
No using the "faith" to justify hitting kids.

Once these things stop, I will stop saying a word.

To Christians, belief is action. What we do is what we believe. Of course it varies, sometimes greatly, between Christians exactly what they believe. But in the end Christians are called to act on their beliefs. Believe and do are one in the same for us. I'm sorry that makes you hate us.

That is why 98% of those in prison are theists?
I hate no one.

Any Christian who claims to be perfect is a hypocrite. Everyone does stupid stuff, everyone makes mistakes, some make extremely bad ones. To be a Christian does mean that you are perfect or are even striving to be. It means that you are trying to better the world around you and serve your fellow man as Jesus directed.
I shouldn't have used the word hate, but I think you see my point.

Atheists can't try to make a better world? I've been involved in charity my entire life, had several that I stared and ran with my wife.
Being religious means nothing when it comes to morality, morality is genetic.
It is how we, as apes, as tribal animals, became apex animals on this planet, we get along... that is all.
Reading some special invisible friend into it just does not work.

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