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usregimechange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-27-11 07:07 PM
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At least 9,400 atheists in the military, more than Jews, Muslims, etc
Defense Department statistics show that about 9,400 of the nation’s 1.4 million active-duty military personnel identify themselves as atheists or agnostics, making them a larger subpopulation than Jews, Muslims, Hindus or Buddhists in the military.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/27/us/27atheists.html?pagewanted=all
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yellerpup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-27-11 08:28 PM
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1. Rationality in the military.
Can't wait for some of these folks to get promoted to the top. That will be change I can believe in. :kick: & REC.
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 10:46 AM
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2. And yet I keep hearing "no atheists in fox holes"
Dumbasses.
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Ninjaneer Donating Member (577 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 01:17 PM
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3. "'There are no atheists in foxholes'
isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes”
-- James Morrow
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progressoid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-06-11 10:36 AM
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4. And 285,000 service members who claim no religious preference
I'm betting a lot of them are also A/A.
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