Here is an article about hardright religious extremists ..

infiltrating the Air Force Academy.

I particularly love this quote:

Also situated on the far north side of Colorado Springs is New Life Church, where it was built, in part, so it could be seen from the Air Force Academy. <1> Sporting Air Force colors, the silver and blue megachurch, along with its leader Ted Haggard, are there not just to be seen, but to aggressively recruit new members for what they believe to be a "spiritual war" of epic proportions.

Haggard, who many consider to be more influential than Dobson, meets with President Bush or his advisors every Monday and leads the nation's most powerful religious lobbying group: the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE), which claims about 45,000 churches consisting of 30 million members nationwide.
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http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_363.shtml

It is really nice to know that this wingnut is the one who gets more time with the pResident than key members of the Senate.

Very scary stuff.

I'm a person of faith (Religious Scientist - www.religiousscience.org ), and, if I were in the Air Force Academy, I would be doing the heathen march, because I'm not a hardright Christian (in fact, I'm not a Christian at all, although I support my progressively-minded Christian friends). I'd be doing the Heathen March with my atheist friends, my Jewish friends, etc.

This scary stuff is why progressives must unite against the hardright religious extremists, no matter how we categorize ourselves. It is unfair that taxpayers have to support this kind of thing. One thing that I do is contribute monthly to Americans United for Separation of Church and State. Barry Lynn and Co. do an outstanding job of fighting for separation of church and state. They are highly involved in making sure that these predatory practices at the academies end.

Thoughts?

Peace,

Mix them together and they are worth a barrel of laughs and two cents.

Too bad the Boooshies are in power right now.

I wouldn't laugh so hard.

as Charles Manson.

Certifiably NUTS !

... in order to win a war:

Psalm 81:13-15

Psalm 27

Deut 28: 7

Isaiah 41:12

I Samuel 8:20

Luke 1:69-75



In the efforts against right wing Telebangelist types, the Bible is your best weapon! :)

;)

Egad, these are malleable, young men(/women?) at a vulnerable age/time of life under circumstances that resemble those stressful situations required for brainwashing with the added effect of massive social/peer pressure... This is egregious behavior for a government instituion (obviously).

One wonders who's behind this and why? Do we really need an army of crusaders... well, we do seem to be preparing for war with Islam. It's a scary thought--just the fact that such a notion seems possible. Scary AND stupid (and insane, and...).

I think that they do consider themselves to be Holy Warriors. The anti-Islam rhetoric has been happening more frequently over on the Rightwing websites.