This would be a chaplain-sponsored program, and I’m a retired chaplain. There are ZERO chaplains I know of that would ever attempt to make attendance at a religious event mandatory. All of them would know better, and such a thing would be rejected out of hand.
In short, I’m saying that this article isn’t giving all of the story. There is something missing.
This simply wouldn’t be done by the chaplains.
Agreed. This story doesn’t make sense, imho.
I’m not a Chaplain, but I agree...I never saw anything like this in 25 years. At OTS, they did give the choice of going to chapel or staying in the barracks, so most everyone went to the church...and slept. The guys who didn’t go were also able to sleep or do laundry, etc - but most wanted to leave the barracks. But that was OTS - they also measured our underwear to make sure they were folded in 3” x 3” squares...
I’m with you there. I wrote this article off as politically inspired baloney, anti Christianism the moment I read it was news/Yahoo, and saw ‘AP’ in the link.
It’s little details such as those that one needs to hone to know to waste time reading the article or not. I don’t have a lot of time to spend, so I’ve come up with common denominators to use to determine legitimacy of news articles. News/Yahoo, and AP are two that cause me to accelerate to the next piece down the page.
And for the rest of you, I am a retired Army chaplain, too.