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Atheists Seek a Place Among Military Chaplains
nytimes.com ^ | 04/27/2011 | James Dao

Posted on 04/27/2011 12:34:20 PM PDT by massmike

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To: massmike

They’re already represented in the military. They’re called “psychologists.”

Why would an atheist want “spiritual guidance?”

Hey, wasn’t Major Hassan a military psychologist? Hmmmm.

Mark


21 posted on 04/27/2011 2:35:00 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: massmike

Atheists, don’t believe, don’t need God, no chaplain needed.

Secular Humanists, has always been a religion, but first before you let them have chaplains, remove the RELIGION of Humanism from the SCHOOLS, separation of church and state, shall we say, eh?


22 posted on 04/27/2011 2:35:00 PM PDT by TruthConquers (.Delendae sunt publicae scholae)
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Atheism is a religion.

They believe there is no God. Putting it in the affirmative, they believe that man is it. We’re the highest form of the species, and when we die, that’s it, we’re dead.

If you ask them to prove it, you get a bucket of nothing. It’s a faith. It’s a belief system like any other.

Agnosticism? Different, more honest animal.


23 posted on 04/27/2011 4:17:26 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs (Does beheading qualify as 'breaking my back', in the Jeffersonian sense of the expression?)
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Among the Armed forces in atheistic countries, there is something called a political officer. His duty was to make certain that all personnel toed the party line.We don’t yet have an equivalent position in our military.


24 posted on 04/27/2011 5:40:14 PM PDT by jmcenanly ( "We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him." -Samuel)
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