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  • Soldier Sues Army, Saying His Atheism Led to Threats

    04/27/2008 4:10:46 PM PDT · by forkinsocket · 42 replies · 44+ views
    The NY Times ^ | April 26, 2008 | NEELA BANERJEE
    FORT RILEY, Kan. — When Specialist Jeremy Hall held a meeting last July for atheists and freethinkers at Camp Speicher in Iraq, he was excited, he said, to see an officer attending. But minutes into the talk, the officer, Maj. Freddy J. Welborn, began to berate Specialist Hall and another soldier about atheism, Specialist Hall wrote in a sworn statement. “People like you are not holding up the Constitution and are going against what the founding fathers, who were Christians, wanted for America!” Major Welborn said, according to the statement. Major Welborn told the soldiers he might bar them from...
  • A Sword Will Pierce Your Heart (The dark side of Christmas.)

    12/22/2005 11:46:42 AM PST · by Mrs. Don-o · 46 replies · 861+ views
    National Review Online ^ | December 22, 2005 | Amy Welborn
    About a year ago, my husband and I traveled across the chilly cornfields of Indiana to have our younger son baptized...Babies, love, and family. Comfort, joy, and peace... But perhaps not so fast... What [we]forget, neglect or conveniently ignore is what we can not-too-dramatically call the Dark Side of Christmas. The really traditional Christian remembrance of the Nativity is not about sweetness. It is about awe, fear, and trembling, and it is shot through with hints of suffering to come. Mary, with a scandalous pregnancy. Joseph, courageous enough to take her on despite it. A birth among farm animals. The...