Three church-state activist groups criticized the Army for allowing an evangelical concert at North Carolina’s Fort Bragg but not making similar provisions for a “Rock Beyond Belief” concert for nonbelievers.
The three groups””Americans United for Separation of Church and State, the American Civil Liberties Union and the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina””on Tuesday (July 5) complained to the Secretary of the Army about events that appear to give “selective benefits” to religious groups.
Companion story from military.com:
http://m.military.com/news/article/base-says-atheist-concert-treated-fairly.html
anyone know what the really hot atheist bands are these days?
Dawkins? Bore–ing. Mikey Weinstein is one of the other speakers–guess he’s not so Jewish after all.
And the bands?
Baba Brinkman, Jeffrey Lewis, Roy Zimmerman, Spoonboy, Words Such As Burn.
Granted I’m not so young anymore (same age as Kendall) but I’ve never heard of them.
Why would the military want an atheist band anyway? What values do they inculcate that would be positive for service people?
“Evangelical Rock?” Hmmm. I remember when rock-n-roll was the devil’s music amongst many Evangelicals, and that wasn’t all that long ago. Times do change.