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GOP Rep smacks down atheist college student who thinks the Army should have secular chaplains
therightscoop.com ^ | 8/11/13

Posted on 08/12/2013 6:51:31 AM PDT by cotton1706

Rep. Burgess (R-TX) handles this student quite well who is only there to push the dumb idea that the military should have atheist and secular chaplains.

Burgess: "I thought it was a dumb idea. I'll do it again" - thunderous applause.


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1 posted on 08/12/2013 6:51:31 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706
secular chaplains

What an oxymoron..............from a moron..........

2 posted on 08/12/2013 6:57:49 AM PDT by Red Badger (Want to be surprised? Google your own name......Want to have fun? Google your friend's names........)
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To: cotton1706

Why would you have a Chaplin for an atheist? These people are just looking for attention.


3 posted on 08/12/2013 6:58:55 AM PDT by McGavin999
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To: cotton1706

Look Mr. atheist....Why does MY believing in God bother you so much. You realize of course, that in doing so, you are acknowledging God.


4 posted on 08/12/2013 6:59:10 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: cotton1706

WTH is a secular chaplain?

I despise these morons. I have a cousin taking up this totally stupid, illogical atheist garbage, whining about how unfair churches get this or Christians get better treatment, etc. Complete nonsense with nothing but venomous hatred for anything not devoid of religiosity.


5 posted on 08/12/2013 7:01:16 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: cotton1706

Force the “atheist college student” join the Army.


6 posted on 08/12/2013 7:01:49 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: McGavin999

“Why would you have a Chaplin for an atheist? These people are just looking for attention.”

No, they are going after absolutely everything relating to religion. They are not “live and let live” people despite what they say. They are “you shall live as I live too or be destroyed” type people.

As Antonin Scalia told somebody regarding a Ten Commandments monument “avert your eyes if you don’t like looking at it.”

These types want anything that offends them removed, but things that offend us, well, we’ll just have to deal with it.


7 posted on 08/12/2013 7:03:29 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

Chaplains believe and practice the faith in God. Atheists don’t believe in God. Who are these so-called atheist chaplains going to pray to? obama? air? Ok kid, which part of this logic didn’t you get? Burgess was too nice to this imbecile.


8 posted on 08/12/2013 7:03:34 AM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company after the election, & laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: McGavin999

Atheism is a cult and you must worship it fundamentally. I don’t have enough faith to be an atheist.

Pray for America to Wake up


9 posted on 08/12/2013 7:03:39 AM PDT by bray (Coming soon: The Republic of Texas 2022)
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To: cotton1706

Secular chaplains - just as soon as the Godless Left acknowledges having Christian and conservative advisers as the way for their side to go...


10 posted on 08/12/2013 7:14:53 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: bray

Glenn Beck just pointed out that if you need an atheist chaplain, then you admit that atheism is your RELIGION.

A militant, aggressive, intolerant religion. Kinda like Islam.


11 posted on 08/12/2013 7:19:04 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: cotton1706

There are already plenty of “secular chaplains” in the military. They are called psychologists. This is a typical left wing tactic. What their aim is to eventually get rid of chaplains altogether.


12 posted on 08/12/2013 7:22:49 AM PDT by Maelstorm (If all are treated as suspects it will not be long before we all are treated as prisoners.)
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To: Maelstorm
There are already plenty of “secular chaplains” in the military. They are called psychologists. This is a typical left wing tactic. What their aim is to eventually get rid of chaplains altogether.

Correct. This is the exact same tactic employed with homosexual marriage. Once you get your foot in the door by allowing "other" living arrangements to be called marriage, you completely undermine the institution itself.

13 posted on 08/12/2013 7:26:21 AM PDT by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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To: cotton1706

“chap·lain
Noun
A member of the clergy attached to a private chapel, institution, ship, branch of the armed forces, etc.”

“cler·gy
Noun
The body of all people ordained for religious duties, esp. in the Christian Church.”

So strictly speaking, to have an atheist chaplain, there would first have to be a body of people ordained for religious duties of the atheist faith. I wonder what those duties would be and who would do the ordaining.

Seems like a lot of effort to set all that up just to get atheist chaplains.

It would be easier to just redefine the word cha...oh, wait.


14 posted on 08/12/2013 7:31:42 AM PDT by KrisKrinkle (Blessed be those who know the depth and breadth of their ignorance. Cursed be those who don't.)
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To: cotton1706
to do what... tell them NOBODY loves them and they are alone and on their own when times are hard???
15 posted on 08/12/2013 7:48:05 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: cotton1706

They already have. They’re called psychiatrist.


16 posted on 08/12/2013 7:48:35 AM PDT by paudio
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To: cotton1706

That an utter nonsense. Another communist military has called them political commissars.


17 posted on 08/12/2013 9:48:14 AM PDT by cunning_fish
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To: cotton1706

That’s my Congressman! I like him.


18 posted on 08/12/2013 9:49:53 AM PDT by chesty_puller (Viet Nam 1970-71 He who shed blood with me shall forever be my brother. Shak.)
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To: Red Badger
Burgess: "I thought it was a dumb idea. I'll do it again" - thunderous applause.

It is a dumb idea and the brainless student is an Obama lover...

secular chaplains

What are they??

What an oxymoron..............from a moron..........

True...

19 posted on 08/12/2013 11:43:35 AM PDT by ExCTCitizen (Ben Carson/Rand Paul or Sara/Nikki in 2016)
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