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R.Wreck
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USA
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 Posted - 05/15/2005 : 11:25:10
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If even half of this story about the US Air Force Academy is true, it is deeply disturbing:
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Academy chaplains Major Warren "Chappy" Watties instructed cadets who attended his protestant worship service to return to their tents and proselytize to cadets who hadn't attended; failure to accept this proselytizing would cause cadets to "burn in the fires of hell."
Cadets who did not attend a chapel service after dinner were forced to march in a "Heathen Flight" back to their dorms.
Head-football-coach Fisher DeBerry informed his team he expected to see them in church on Easter. He also hung a banner in the locker room proclaiming "I am a Christian first and last * * * I am a member of Team Jesus Christ"
Commander of Cadets General Johnny Weida emailed cadets endorsing National Prayer Week and saying "[a]sk the Lord to give us the wisdom to discover the right, the courage to choose it, and the strength to make it endure." In an official "Commander's Guidance" document, General Weida instructed cadets that they "are accountable first to your God."
I find it outrageous that an arm of the federal government, supported entirely by humongous truckloads of tax dollars, can get away with this crap. I find it frightening that assholes like this are training people to fly around in nuclear armed bombers. I thought they were there to protect our freedom and constitution, not to abuse their freedom and blatantly violate the constitution.
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The foundation of morality is to . . . give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibliities of knowledge.
T. H. Huxley
The Cattle Prod of Enlightened Compassion
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Edited by - R.Wreck on 05/15/2005 12:30:00
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
USA
3834 Posts |
 Posted - 05/15/2005 : 14:59:13 [Permalink]
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| So if one of those cadets chose conscientious objector status over supporting the Iraq War because of some Bible verse like, "turn the other cheek", I wonder how that would be interpreted? |
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
USA
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the_ignored
SFN Addict
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Posted - 05/15/2005 : 19:57:13 [Permalink]
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Geez, I posted about this in the Theology Web forums...the reaction I got from one of the guys there is beyond belief! He accused me of being "hysterical" and "no one was being pressured" in any way for xianity!
Here's the post, you be the judge. God, I didn't think I'd see this kind of reaction outside of Rapture Ready (it's why I didn't post this there!)
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>From: enuffenuff@fastmail.fm
(excerpt follows):
> I'm looking to teach these two bastards a lesson they'll never forget.
> Personal visit by mates of mine. No violence, just a wee little chat.
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> **** has also committed more crimes than you can count with his
> incitement of hatred against a religion. That law came in about 2007
> much to ****'s ignorance. That is fact and his writing will become well
> know as well as him becoming a publicly known icon of hatred.
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> Good luck with that fuckwit. And Reynold, fucking run, and don't stop.
> Disappear would be best as it was you who dared to attack me on my
> illness knowing nothing of the cause. You disgust me and you are top of
> the list boy. Again, no violence. Just regular reminders of who's there
> and visits to see you are behaving. Nothing scary in reality. But I'd
> still disappear if I was you.
What brought that on? this. Original posting here.
Another example of this guy's lunacy here. |
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 05/15/2005 : 20:24:49 [Permalink]
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Great.... the idea of a religious fundamentalist, regardless of their flavor, driving a stealth bomber is not comforting.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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