re: #335 HappyWarrior

That would actually be an interesting research paper, history of non-Christians in the U.S. military.

There was the issue of the “Army Fitness Tracker” from 2011 that would assess various things about a soldier, and the software would claim that non-Christians were unfit to serve in the Army.

(I took the fitness tracker when it went on-line and it said the same about me.)

huffingtonpost.com (from 2011)

A cursory search doesn’t seem to indicate such a history has been done, but recent surveys have.

Number of non-Christians in the military may surprise you (Belleville, IL News-Democrat)

Q: When I watched the Democratic National Convention, I was utterly sick at heart when the father of Capt. Humayun Khan, who was killed in Iraq, spoke. With so much talk about how America is a “Christian-only” country, is there any way to find out how many non-Christian men and women serve in our armed forces?

A: This may come as a shock to some, but a Department of Defense survey taken in 2009 found that just over a third of those who agreed to be questioned (more than 6,000) said they either were not Christian or had no religious preference.

Of those, the vast majority chose “none of the above” — about 25 percent. But nearly 4 percent identified with humanism (the belief in critical thinking and evidence over dogma and superstition) while Jews, pagans, Eastern religions and “less common” religions came in at about 1 percent each. Roman Catholics topped the Christian faiths with 20 percent followed by Baptists with nearly 18 percent. Muslims numbered about a half percent.

More at the link