GOP Says Air Force 'Hostile to Religion'

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GOP Says Air Force ‘Hostile to Religion’

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Religion • 6/24/12 1:43:52 pm • Views: 1,268

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More than 60 Republican lawmakers have signed a letter to U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta accusing the U.S. Air Force of being “hostile to religion,” according to Fox News.

The letter, drafted by Reps. Todd Akin (R-MO), Diane Black (R-TN) and Randy Forbes (R-VA), calls on Panetta to investigate a series of cases where the Air Force “succumbed” to pressure from outside groups, such as the removal of a paragraph from a Squadron Officer School training document saying, “if you attend chapel regularly, both officers and Airmen are likely to follow this example. If you are morally lax in your personal life, a general moral indifference within the command can be expected.”

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researchok Sun, Jun 24, 2012 1:48:02pm

Anything but dealing with the real issues.

nines09 Sun, Jun 24, 2012 2:26:57pm

Allow me to fling myself through a plate glass window of your choice on a floor you chose. Never quite enough.

hellosnackbar Sun, Jun 24, 2012 2:38:59pm

What the hell has religion to do with the airforce?
What do these halfwits want ?
The head of the airforce to be a bishop ,rabbi, or imam?

Archangelus Sun, Jun 24, 2012 2:46:04pm

re: #3 hellosnackbar

What do these halfwits want ?

An end to the separation between church and state and a Christian version of Shariya law would be my guess…

/kinda

RadicalModerate Sun, Jun 24, 2012 3:29:48pm

Are they talking about this Air Force?

[Link: www.veteranstoday.com…]

or this one?

[Link: www.nytimes.com…]

andres Sun, Jun 24, 2012 3:47:23pm

re: #3 hellosnackbar

What the hell has religion to do with the airforce?
What do these halfwits want ?
The head of the airforce to be a bishop ,rabbi, or imam?

Not an imam, actually. A rabbi or a bishop would do in a hurry, but they might have a preference for a minister*.

*Pardon my lack of knowledge, I don’t know the minister ranking in Protestant Churches.

The Ghost of a Flea Sun, Jun 24, 2012 3:56:10pm

There’s been a long chain of incidents in the Armed Forces where commanding officers have used their position to proselytize their personal brand of politicized, apocalypse-oriented Protestantism. The Air Force is particular has a lot of this behavior going around…from the time you enter the academy onward, there’s an implicit network that pressures entrants to convert or be shut out of choice commissions and promotions.

The MRFF are pretty much constantly fighting an uphill battle about such behavior: mandatory attendance at Christian music concerts; demerits issued if you don’t go see the “inspirational” speaker; COs badgering their troops with religious tracts; “spiritual fitness” tests as part of wellness programs; and more generally the abuse of authority to force a very specific, narrow religious identity upon troops.

Joanne Sun, Jun 24, 2012 6:47:07pm

It sounds like the entire GOP is nothing short of fundamentalists.

And it’s terrifying.

Interesting Times Sun, Jun 24, 2012 6:48:10pm

re: #8 Joanne (JustJay)

It sounds like the entire GOP is nothing short of fundamentalists.

Just admit it, GOP, you’re just jealous because you don’t have the balls to name your party the Christian Brotherhood.
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) June 25, 2012

Mich-again Sun, Jun 24, 2012 10:18:17pm

re: #7 The Ghost of a Flea

There’s been a long chain of incidents in the Armed Forces where commanding officers have used their position to proselytize their personal brand of politicized, apocalypse-oriented Protestantism. The Air Force is particular has a lot of this behavior going around…from the time you enter the academy onward, there’s an implicit network that pressures entrants to convert or be shut out of choice commissions and promotions.

The MRFF are pretty much constantly fighting an uphill battle about such behavior: mandatory attendance at Christian music concerts; demerits issued if you don’t go see the “inspirational” speaker; COs badgering their troops with religious tracts; “spiritual fitness” tests as part of wellness programs; and more generally the abuse of authority to force a very specific, narrow religious identity upon troops.

Yowza..

Kruk Mon, Jun 25, 2012 1:17:27am

re: #7 The Ghost of a Flea

There’s been a long chain of incidents in the Armed Forces where commanding officers have used their position to proselytize their personal brand of politicized, apocalypse-oriented Protestantism.

And these are the people who fly nuclear armed aircraft. What could possibly go wrong?

Shiplord Kirel Mon, Jun 25, 2012 10:39:32am

Well, religion is hostile to the Air Force, at least some very influential religions are.
For example, what kind of aerospace science can we expect from people who were educated to think the Loch Ness monster disproves evolution or solar fusion is a myth? I guessw the H-bomb is a gummint hoax like the Moon landings or relativity.
Can’t we improve the range of our aircraft by adapting that magic carburetor technology the car companies have suppressed? We should take our best analysts off targeting terrorists and put them to tracking it down right now.

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