Army Move on Atheist Chaplains Could Lead To ‘Church of Evolution’

NY Sun ^ | April 28, 2011 | SHMULEY BOTEACH

[Crim]

Non compos mentis

[dfwgator]

They can do what George Carlin proposed and praise “The Big Electron” It doesn’t punish, it doesn’t reward, it doesn’t judge at all. It just is.

[Christian Engineer Mass]

Absolutely - it’s a religion and so CANNOT be supported by the federal government or established as the de facto state religion under the antiestablishment clause of the first amendement.

Atheism is not no religion. They cannot prove there is no God. They are acting out of faith alone.

They are also wrong, but that’s not the point.

[davisfh]

I can just hear the atheist prayer now. “Dear Heavenly nobody, thank you for nothing.”

[RangerM]

Don’t they already have non-religious chaplains?

They call them bartenders.

[ansel12]

GI to atheist Chaplin, “I don’t believe in God”, atheist Chaplin to GI, “me neither, see you again next week.”

[CrazyIvan]

I can just hear the atheist prayer now. “Dear Heavenly nobody, thank you for nothing.”

They have a “Dial a Prayer” for atheists. It's the same
format, except no one answers.

[Zionist Conspirator]

So, when the “Church of Evolution” is officially organized, does that mean evolution won’t be taught in government classrooms?

[reefdiver]

The only atheist I ever met were of course democrat. Very few donks in the armed services and even less atheist. This is a BS issue, some one looking for attention

[pnh102]

Church of Evolution?

Does this mean evolution is no longer a scientific theory but an act of faith?

[Tax-chick]

Ann Coulter nailed it.

[Honorary Serb]

Various universities have “humanist chaplains”:

http://www.harvardhumanist.org/

I suppose that the military might have “humanist chaplains”, and learn from the ones at universities how to dispense the meaningless treacle that they probably dispense. But an “atheist chaplain” is the same as a nihilist “chaplain”, which doesn’t work one bit!

If you don’t know, I’m an Orthodox Christian, so you see where I am coming from on this issue. Christ is Risen!

[bigheadfred]

ping

[pnh102]

This is so comical that it has to be ordained by God personally. Romans 1:18-32. :)

[PizzaDriver]

“GI to atheist Chaplin, “I don’t believe in God”, atheist Chaplin to GI, “me neither, see you again next week.””...

GI to Chaplin “BUT I don’t DISbelieve, either {as YOU do}! Ergo, I won’t be here next week.”

I doubt that any Agnostic [read DOUBTER] would want a Chaplincy!

[Gamecock]

Interesting companion thread in the Religion Forum: Atheist groups push for military chaplains

[grey_whiskers]

Once they're in the foxhole, they'd better learn to express fortuitous changes in their alleles VERY rapidly.

(And I guess now that the front lines are integrated, they can *attempt* to propagate the genes: but waiting for the next generation will likely prove a bit problematic.)

Cheers!

[BwanaNdege]

The military already has Unitarian Universalist chaplains.

“Contemporary Unitarian Universalists espouse a pluralist approach to religion, whereby the followers may be atheist, theist, or any point in between.”

[ansel12]

Agnostic and atheism are the same in my book, the choice of words only tells me something about how evasive the individual is.