Posted on 05/16/2008 7:55:57 AM PDT by rosenfan
My 6yrs experience in the Navy showed that very few were religious, I think that’s because on a carrier during VN, there wasn’t anything to really be afraid of.
Amen to that, FRiend. The people who brought me over made a point of not pushing their beliefs on me.
I like this one, tells me all I need to know about the writer.
>>That’s no way to placate Muslim populations around the world.<<
How does one placate a Muslim?
Oh, I heard some stories from navy folks during VN...
not anything life threatening, just uncomfortable, like, when the carrier had to turn into the wind...
Well, three things will placate a Muslim.
You could convert to Islam.
You could subjugate yourself and pay the jizya tax.
You could die.
How does his lack of religion keep him from being an all-around great guy?
Jeremy Hall is so tiresome and boring.
Irrespective of your religion, or lack of religion, the military is one of those places you shouldn't let your own beliefs or nonbeliefs get in the way of conducting yourself professionally.
You'll be out of there soon enough and you won't even remember what your buddies believed specifically.
And never forget, all of them have a full right to their own religious beliefs and your attempts to interfere with them will probably not be appreciated ~
But even more....they were tolerant of religious differences.
This does to me. As a former atheist in the military, in some units there was no problem, but in others I knew to keep my head down. One community was basically run by evangelicals. And that was just as enlisted. Officers have it harder since they must actively participate in a variety of social functions if they want to advance, and a good number of them are religious.
He was safe. On the other hand I’d guess he was considered quite obnoxious and impolite, maybe suffering from borderline personality disorder.
If you were ships crew, you may as well have been off the Vacapes.
It depends on the post. In this case it's the local chaplain's call. I've met chaplains who I count as some of the greatest people I've ever met, and they truly wanted to aid the spiritual needs of the soldiers, no matter what their beliefs. But then I've met others who used their position to proselytize their brand of Christianity and ignore or suppress anything else.
Most religious people aren’t that obnoxious, but you’ll find a few that are overzealous. At least, the Christian zealots are more likely to pray for the unbelievers than cut off their heads, so what’s the real harm in that?
The ones I know, just want to do their job and have a place to pray...but then again I’ve been told my Muslim friends are really Muslims, because they do not want to kill people and force them to accept Islam.
The article said that most of the 8,000 complaints this organization has were from Christians.
He must have dead, soulless eye...creepy looking
You had an overactive imagination. Sure religious people have an extra dimension to their lives, but it’s not some sort of conspiracy aimed at you ~ many of them are sufficiently Calvinist they really don’t care about your fate in the universe ~ and it’s really surprising how many folks you can turn into good Calvinists if you are sufficiently obnoxious about your own differing beliefs or lack thereof.
VERY good point.
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