Posted on 06/01/2005 9:18:27 AM PDT by pickemuphere
DENVER -- On the eve of his graduation, the top cadet at the Air Force Academy sent out a religious-themed e-mail to thousands of fellow cadets, even as the school is grappling with complaints that some evangelical Christians are harassing others at the school.
The Associated Press obtained a copy of the e-mail sent Tuesday by Wing Commander Nicholas Jurewicz to the freshmen, sophomore and junior classes, which is about 3,000 cadets. "Wing commander" is the title held by the top senior at the school in military ranking.
Jurewicz lists his favorite quotations in the message, including several about Jesus. One quotation, "Bear one another's burdens, and so you will fulfill the law of Christ," is a biblical verse.
The academy has been under investigation because of complaints that evangelical Christians have harassed cadets who do not share their faith, in violation of the constitutional separation of church and state.
Cadets have been required to attend religious tolerance seminars, during which they have been reminded that Air Force policy bans the use of official e-mails for personal messages.
"We will look into it and if he violated any Air Force or academy policy we will take appropriate action after we've reviewed it," academy spokesman Johnny Whitaker said.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
so (sic) is buying one of these machines that hook one up to the internet.Why the infidels and athiests will be as described in Scripture-ever learning but never coming to the knowledge of the Truth.
Your above response is so incoherently bible-thumping that I basically still don't have a clue as to WTF you were saying, except that it has something to do with infidels, atheists, Scripture and Truth.
It doesn't specifically say 'Baptist' or 'Lutheran' or 'Catholic' or 'C of E' or even 'Christian' does it?
It doesn't say 'blessing of Allah' or 'Jesus', does it?
Even then they understood what 'freedom of worship' means....
At last, reason!
" . . . there forms a perception" is the problem! Whose perception, and is it correctly formed? Plainly, no, repeat NO, "rewards," "consideration," whatever, should be attached to any religion or its practice, period. But the perception? Perception be damned. We're right back in mire of PC.
Paganism?
Where did I say anything about paganism?
My reply was in reference to the post about Tocqueville's writings about American Hellfire and Brimstone!
That Hellfire and Brimstone was the direct result of an act of nature...The Leonids.
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Correct, but that is what is happening right now in the AF. It's not just a perception.
That is the liberal secular view of the matter, so vigorously pursued on this thread ...
Don't have a clue what the WTF your panties are in such a bunch about other than the fact that you apparantly are like Mugsie suffering from the romans 1:21 syndrom. In Basic
training Ft.Campbell KY June 1969 we were trained to recognize the General Orders and expectaitons of General George Washington. And we were marched to Chapel every Sunday- unless we preferred being PLO. Clearly Washington
had done something to invoke the Blessings of Heaven for he
took on a world power and Won if it were good 'nuff for the Patriots and Christian Soldiers who secured our dearest Rights and Liberties then it ought be so even today.One still has Free will -One can go to Hell or be PLO
if they choose to reject God.
Given the obvious FACT that American military leaders have almost universally been both very religious AND very diverse in their faiths it is apparent to all but the willfully blind that such divisions and diversions have played no significant role in our history.
Maybe you have another country in mind.
Yeah, but it has to be a list of all services--that is official and informational, not religious. How are your Jewish troops gonna feel if you only list the Christian services?
The AF is having trouble with this right now....
Amazing. We get junk mail all the time and we just toss it. If this person sent this out why not just toss it if it is not important to you or meaningful to you? No big deal to me.
These little tidbits blown up into a "sex scandal" is the result of too LITTLE Christianity not too MUCH. The latter is the LEAST of the Academy and military's problems.
Only a hysterically anti-religious RATmedia would even be talking about this non-problem.
Right on target. Good post.
And he had a hell of a temper so he would be disqualified from being the UN Ambassador.
bttt
"These little tidbits blown up into a "sex scandal" is the result of too LITTLE Christianity not too MUCH."
Wrong. Several of the evildoers (male AND female) were supposedly "good Christians."
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