Posted on 08/08/2011 9:26:40 PM PDT by RitchieAprile
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- A concert event organized by atheist, agnostic and other non-theist soldiers has been cleared by the Army to take place next spring at Fort Bragg, concert organizers and a spokesman for the post said Monday.
Organizers planned to hold the Rock Beyond Belief event this year, but they canceled after saying Bragg leadership was not providing the same support it gave to an evangelical Christian concert last fall.
Supporters hailed the Army's decision
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If a Christian concert was allowed, this one should be as well.
Just a closer walk with me...
How great thou aren’t, how great thou aren’t...
I come to the garden alone, ... and I still am alone among the roses...
etc.
I agree RA in this being offered under those circumstances.
Simply disgusting. And the immoral morass widens.
Seems like a lot of excitement and effort over...nothing.
I agree.
Hopefully somebody will be keeping tabs on who goes to this concert.
No....only ones that acknowledge a God can be conducted by our military—no Satan, not Wicca—but God—either Christian or Jewish or Catholic—it should be generic enough to worship the God of the New and Old Testaments because that is the philosophy and basis of Common Law and Natural Law Theory which forms our Legal system and Constitution.
Destroy God and we have no Natural Rights. (Marxist plans).
Since our Rights come from the Creator, we can NEVER acknowledge NO God because that destroys the fundamental meaning of our Constitution and Natural Law Theory which presupposes a Supreme Being. It is why all our Presidents take an oath on the Bible (or until Marxists are trying to destroy the Constitution and our Natural Rights.)
If you take God away—then there is no Supra Positive Law that made Hitler’s Laws Null and Void at Nuremberg. There would be no plea for MLK from Birmingham Jail which acknowledged God and a Higher Power than man-made-up arbitrary law which is “unequal” law according to Natural Law Theory.
Well, isn’t that nice.
No Susie, it’s still a free country, and that means freedom for the non-believers as well. Yes, that includes unbelieving soldiers as well. Belief has to come on its own. It can’t be mandated from on high.
As for taking God away...it can’t be done, so debating it is pointless.
I agree. (Except where you put Catholics as a separate category; we Catholics are most definitely Christian — in fact, the original Christians.)
The last I checked religious freedom doesn't require the government to setup a platform for one to express one's beliefs.
Let these freaks hate God on their own time.
You didn’t read the article did you? The organizers have raised the money to hold their event just like the previous event, which was a Christian event. This isn’t on the government dime, and neither was the last event. More importantly, the government SHOULD NOT paying for either groups entertainment.
Legitimacy given in the military to homosexuality, now atheism—what next? America sure has slid far down the path of national suicide during my 61 years. Sickening.
The same way the believing soldier/sailor/airman/marine does: He does his part, whether it be servicing tanks, patching up troops or pointing and firing weapons at the enemy. The enemy dies just as quickly from an atheist thrown grenade as any other.
You missed the point. Our rights are given to us by God; therefore, nobody can take those rights away. If one does not believe in God, where do these rights come from and who can then take them away?
You missed the point. Our rights are given to us by God; therefore, nobody can take those rights away. If one does not believe in God, where do these rights come from and who can then take them away?
Since our rights are given to us by God, then they come from God whether any particular individual recognizes that or not. Those rights don't cease coming from God if even only God himself is aware of it.
I was an atheist for the better part of my life. I didn't even begin to question my lack of belief until my wife was pregnant with our first child. I spent my entire military career as an atheist, and there is nothing I could have done differently had I been saved at that time.
“Hopefully somebody will be keeping tabs on who goes to this concert.”
So that they can be punished later?
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