A group of religious non-believers at Fort Bragg is pushing for the U.S. military to make sure they get the same treatment as religious groups.
A group of religious non-believers at Fort Bragg is pushing for the U.S. military to make sure they get the same treatment as religious groups.
I have a suspicion that many of these are gay soldiers. The modern atheist movement is highly politically motivated.
Just let them interview any old sergeant who has ever ever cringed in a foxhole when mortar shells are crashing down around him, and tell [b]him[/b] there are no atheists in foxholes; he’d likely call him a bald-faced liar to his face!
“They want to hold meetings at the base,”
– who’s stopping them?
“work with the Army’s chaplains”
– why????
“and have their gatherings listed in a bulletin of religious services.”
– that makes no sense at all.
They are not in foxholes; they are on an Army base in the continental United States.
If they were placed in foxholes in a war zone with live ammunition being fired at them, I wonder how many would still be atheists. If they were gravely wounded, but still conscious, I wonder how many would still be atheists. For that matter, if someone they dearly loved was gravely hurt or ill, I wonder how many would claim the appellation “atheist.”
kmh1 (#3) – I agree entirely with your first two call and response lines. However, I think the third ‘call’ makes all kinds of sense. There is no doubt in my mind that the worldview of atheism has all the features of religious belief – and yet it generally gets an inappropriate pass from the courts on the Constitutional church and state separation. I would argue it is wonderful to have a group of atheists finally acknowledge theirs is a system of belief which has no more and no less faith basis than traditional religious ones.