Posted on 02/03/2010 10:40:29 AM PST by Lorianne
The Air Force Academy, stung several years ago by accusations of Christian bias, has built a new outdoor worship area for pagans and other practitioners of Earth-based religions.
But its opening, heralded as a sign of a more tolerant religious climate at the academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., was marred by the discovery two weeks ago of a large wooden cross placed there.
"We've been making great progress at the Air Force Academy. This is clearly a setback," said Mikey Weinstein, a 1977 graduate of the academy. He is founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, and has often tangled with the academy over such issues.
The academy -- which also has worship areas for Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, Buddhist and Jewish faiths -- already had a designated area for Wiccans, pagans and followers of similar traditions, but it was located on the north end of the 19,000-acre campus and was not easy for cadets to visit, Van Winkle said.
The new site, a collection of stones set in a circle unveiled late last year, is closer to where cadets live and train.
The reaction would have been stronger, Weinstein said, if another worship center had been involved. Had a swastika been placed in the Jewish center, "heads would be rolling," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Unfortunately, the article is NOT sarcasm.
Sounds like Michael Aquino (going from memory here.) He didn't have the ears of a Vulcan, but he did have those up-curled eyebrows, which he cultivated because he WANTED to look like a weirdo.
(If I didn't trim MY eyebrows, I'd look like that meself. No, thanks.)
I know... *mumbles*
Unbelievable!!!! How DARE they!!!! Scandal!!!!
I can’t believe they bend over like this for a made up religion, and a recent one at that.
The evil criminals who placed the cross there will be hunted down, prosecuted and persecuted. Meanwhile bearded preachers of hatred against Jews and Christians are left alone to spew their hate.
This reminds me of a ham sandwich incident...
From a Jewish standpoint perhaps we should to the same with the pagan worshipper known as christians.
This is why it’s so difficult to distinguish between truth and parody nowadays. We’re all living in upside-down world.
And this helps our military readiness how, exactly?
Will we have Muslims piloting nuclear-armed aircraft in the future? If that is so, you can stick a fork in America.
She’s done.
I see that little prick, Mikey Weinstein, is still around trying to destroy the Academy.
Your people tried that once (ironically on a cross), but...
Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ."
She’s referring to a statement a while back from some leftard that a cross was the equivalent of a swastika as a symbol of hate.
From your first sentence,
methinks the guy filing the complaint was the one that planted the cross.
Just another “fake hate crime”.
Now wait just a second here. Pagans are free to add gods practically at will. If someone within the pagan fold *wanted to worship The Crucified One as a God* then under what tenet of paganism could you possibly object?
Fools. Don’t even know their own religion.
Perhaps you’re reading the wrong book...
hindu i think, it has been around a really long time
It was never good for Israel when they built “high places” and I doubt it will be good for us now.
Might want to check on that whole “pagan worshipper” thing. Many Jewish scholars saw the matter somewhat differently:
“The great rabbinical authorities, R. Gershom of Mayence (d. 1040); Rashiand his school; the French Tosafists of the twelfth century (’Ab. Zarah, 2a); Solomon ben Adret of Barcelona, of the thirteenth century; Isaac b. Sheshet of the fourteenth century (Responsa No. 119); Joseph Caro, and Moses Isserles of the sixteenth century declare that Christians are to be regarded as Proselytes of the Gate and not as idolaters, in spite of their image-worship.”
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=489&letter=C&search=christianity#1641
See also:
You’re obviously confused.
How is military readiness related to the Air Force Academy?
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