Posted on 04/27/2008 4:10:46 PM PDT by forkinsocket
Well, the most I had to deal with was with the mandatory inprocessing interview with the commander. And that’s when I received the full ‘how is the state of your soul’ spiel. That, and his ever-so-helpful pro-active emailing of the base chaplains regarding my arrival - you know, so that I could be ‘reminded’ to attend chapel services. Nevermind whether I was Protestant, Catholic, Mormon, Muslim, Hindu, or Jewish.
After that, if I had to be around him, I would make sure to try and divert his attention away from anything that might resemble a discussion about religion.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,”
That is more in line with Deism, not Christianity.
If it were truly supportive of Christianity, it would have said, "...that they are endowed by Jesus with certain unalienable Rights..."
My thinking exactly. Typically, the defendant has a very different story than the plaintiff.
And why the hell would the Army give a crap about atheists giving their life for the country? I don’t. My test is about ‘whether’ you are willing to give your life not whether you believe you will be rewarded in the afterlife for having done it.
And if this Major really did what is said then he needs to be upbraided or censured (whatever the language is). But once this becomes some big victim story and unit cohesion is disrupted, then you can’t go back and fix it. And somebody other than the Major is probably responsible for that part.
Typically, its a case where an aggrieved party makes themselve some kind of special case because they feel discriminated against and that tends to make the rest of the group want to finish the job. Group dynamics require an adherence to specific principles and when you put OTHER principles ABOVE the ones you all follow to protect yours and your fellow soldiers lives then you are disrupting the dynamic of the unit and the unit will seek to find a stability by removing the disrupting cause - ie, you. But even in the middle of a war, victimhood could trump everything.
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