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November 30, 2011
Into the Earth, Junior Birdmen!: Air Force Academy adapts to pagans, druids, witches and Wiccans
Officials say an $80,000 Stonehenge-like worship center underscores a commitment to embrace all religions. -- latimes.com [Sigh.]Posted by gerardvanderleun at November 30, 2011 9:12 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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Just workin' to remove any full Federal funding from any religious thing -- chapels, chaplains, religious programs of any type.
So we spent 80 grand to get some rocks put in a circle. But that's separate from (though on the grounds of?) the main chapel.
So can we have crosses in the hills now?
Will "normal" folks be willing to cut their own religion's military support to keep this sort of thing from being funded?
Or will we soon be funding things for the branch Davidians, the Peoples' temple, and so forth?
Posted by: OldFert at December 1, 2011 4:13 PM
1. The military has chaplains to minister to the religious needs of its people.
2. Wiccans are part of the military, because it is wrong to exclude any religion.
3. Therefore, the military will have Wiccan chaplains and services, if the population density is there to support them.
4. The religious beliefs of the Wiccans are as valid as yours.
5. All such beliefs seem a bit absurd from my atheist viewpoint - and that also includes the socialist and environmentalist religions.
6. Our Battalion had a Wiccan chaplain for a while:
a) A nice, dedicated Captain who did her job
b) Oddly, It never rained on our battalion
c) If you are wondering, she wore an
insignia that looked like the White Tree
that the Gondor Citadel Guard have on
their shields in LOTR [subdued, of course]
d) The Captain that replaced her was an
Episcopalian lady.
“If this rate of progress continues, the Anglo-Saxons will develop heavier-than-air flying machines and automatic rifles and then thay will overrun the entire Planet!!"
"Oh?, . . . What!! . . . Well, never mind then.”
Posted by: OldFan at December 1, 2011 5:18 PM
It's just a matter of incremental time before we'll be forced to finance sweat lodges and obsidian knives for pyramid altars.
Posted by: monkeyfan at December 1, 2011 7:45 PM