Air Force Sued Over Religion

They're arrogant, right-wingers, for the most part.

as popular as the Air Force Academy. That's a huge step!!

There was a tv segment on this some months ago in conjunction with the Lutheran chaplain who left the Academy.

A Jewish man who was very proud of his AF service and his AF Academy education was pleased to encourage his son to attend as well. He was shocked when his son confessed he was very close to decking the next classmate who told him that he, as a Jew, was a Christ-killer and destined for eternal damnation. The atmosphere had changed that much.

We all know Bush believes he's on a mission from God, and has promoted generals who agree with him and gotten rid of those who disagree. This AF thing is of a piece with everything else Bush has done. He talks religion and because he uses the same words the mainstream uses they think his god is the same as theirs. Not so. Bush's god is one mean, nasty, vindictive, s.o.b.

But we already knew this.

Hekate

This summer there was a USAFA football player that complained because the football coach, Fisher DeBerry, a fundie, put all kind of Christian religious signs up in the locker room. Things like.... "We win through Christ, etc...." One of the players complained. I think academy officials either made him remove the signs or was considering it. Bobby Swaggert Bowden, the right-wing, fundie coach at Florida State, goes out there and bitches that it's shame that Christians are allowed to be discriminated against in The US.

BTW, Swaggert-Bowden stated in his book he could never hire an assistant or anyone who hasn't accepted Jesus Christ as their personal savior....... So no Jews should apply at FSU.

Un-friggin' real. Especially on the heals of all the sexual assaults that have been reported there for the last 5 years or so.

it showed a man and his son driving up, past multiple signs proclaiming welcome to all sorts of faith groups. At the entrance, a sign said "no evangelicals." If this is the way that "evangelicals" behave, then I hope it will turn out like Mr. Assay thought it would.

Just look at Brownbeck, Sanctorectum et al, and you'll know the sort of cretins they've been sending to ALL the military academies! I was in the service and know about this personally. We called them "home-schoolers", "snake-handlers' and "speaking-in-tongues bastards". The whole lot are insufferable, left-behind fundie pricks! Scary thing is, they control the nukes, and the sock-puppet in the White House! My opinion is they want to hasten the apocalypse.....

what you are talking about.

Nice generalization there.

Our country is in the grip of religiously insane radicals. The beauty of the Constitution, as written, allows people to worship as they please. Christians may go to church, preach, pray, whatever. The problem is that they want to use their visions of right and wrong to be the law of the land, based on their interpretation of the Bible.

This is the reason that our Founding Fathers prohibited the establishment of a national religion.They believed, wisely, that religion is a personal thing, between a person and his Deity, or that he might not believe in a Deity. This is a matter of individual conscience, and the government may not step in to enforce or deny religious beliefs.

What we have now, though, is a bunch of Christian zealots who believe that their religion trumps the Constitution, and the law. They want to establish laws according to their interpretation of the Bible. This is prohibited in the Constitution, and I fail to see why it should continue to be such an issue.

The law is clear, but they keep chipping away at it, doggedly ignoring law, and other people's rights, and anything but their own narrow minded views of the world. I fear them far more than I fear the Islamic terrorists that Bush keeps trying to frighten us with.

I was born and raised in Texas. I have spent my life around these extremists. I have no doubt whatsoever that the pressure to conform to evangelical notions of religion has been intense, and that authorities have looked the other way. This is what happens when a sociopath with a streak of religious insanity becomes president.

...should google for Christian Reconstructionism and/or Dominionism. You will be able to read both primary documents (i.e., "This is who we are; yay us") and commentary/analysis from others.

These folks are batshit crazy. As a lifelong liberal I would be only too happy to let them live their lives as they choose, believing the apocalypse is around the corner and all that. I am sincere about this live and let live stuff.

But they have taken over my government, everything but the Supreme Court, and they are one appointment away from that. These folks have to be stopped.

To explore the links between the politicians and the Dominionists/Christian Reconstructionists, keep googling by linking names. Very instructive.

The neo-cons, the uber-ultra-right Christians, and the corporatists are locked in an unholy alliance, each believing they are using the other for their own ends. And Bush owes them all.

By the way for those who don't know me, I spend a lot of time here defending Christianity in general and evangelicals (those more inclined to post the Beatitudes than the Ten Commandments) in particular. It's not my path, but I honor those who, like Pres. Jimmy Carter and Rev. Jim Wallis, do good works on behalf of their fellow humans.

Hekate

They're metaphysical flashers.

The intersection of religious fundies and military power in Colorado Springs make it the ideal location to become the capital of the new Republic of Gilead as envisioned in the book The Handmaid's Tale.

One of the guys who was sent to clean that place up is a Jewish Navy Chaplain, conservative, orthodox, ABSOLUTELY INCORRUPTIBLE, and very sharp, by the name of Arnie Resnicoff. He's a good guy. 0-6, will never make it higher under this administration anyway, probably, because there are only two flag spots and he is unwilling to play any political games.

It would not surprise me if this kid knows Arnie, is all I'm sayin'...

to the federal military academies. Cadets who shove the Bible in people's faces don't sound like the best & the brightest. Add them to all the Tailhook people, plus the teenage military academy couple from Texas who committed murder, and you've got to wonder what the academies' admission committees have been doing for the past 15 years.