{"id":11875,"date":"2011-07-15T03:00:30","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T08:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=11875"},"modified":"2015-06-27T19:15:17","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T22:15:17","slug":"rock-beyond-belief-praises-the-military-chaplaincy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/15\/rock-beyond-belief-praises-the-military-chaplaincy\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock Beyond Belief Praises the Military Chaplaincy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Advocates for “Rock Beyond Belief,” the atheist counter-event<\/a> to the Christian Rock the Fort<\/a>, have previously taken advantage of opportunities to belittle Christianity and the Army<\/a> — even when the Army was going out of its way to do exactly what they wanted<\/em>.<\/p>\n

However, a recent post at the Rock Beyond Belief blog<\/a> may mark a significant change in tone.\u00a0 Eschewing the normal martyrdom complex (save a hint in a sentence or two) and mockery of religion, the article instead praises US military Chaplains for supporting atheist troops.\u00a0 The blog is (generally) positive, uplifting, and presents a\u00a0(generally)\u00a0accurate and objective perspective on atheism in the US military.\u00a0 It may help potential atheist recruits know they will be respected by the institutional Army, and it shows the world the US military respects religious freedom.<\/p>\n

Of course, this support of atheists by Chaplains isn’t new<\/em>; the military Chaplaincy’s support of military atheists<\/a> has been highlighted here many times before<\/a>.\u00a0 It’s just the first time advocates for Rock Beyond Belief have framed their discussion in such a positive light — even though its been public knowledge for some time <\/em>the Chaplains have been helping them along the way<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It is good to see the Army and the military getting the praise they deserve; they are more often\u00a0unjustly vilified at every opportunity.\u00a0 The activists at RBB should be commended for highlighting the fact the US\u00a0military generally does an admirable job of protecting the religious freedom of its servicemembers.<\/p>\n

Perhaps their blog post portends a move away from the always-negative, never-satisfied,\u00a0vitriolic Weinstein way<\/a> — a move which would certainly boost RBB’s credibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Advocates for “Rock Beyond Belief,” the atheist counter-event to the Christian Rock the Fort, have previously taken advantage of opportunities to belittle Christianity and the Army — even when the Army was going out of its way to do exactly what they wanted. However, a recent post at the Rock Beyond Belief blog may mark a significant change in tone.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[88,20,5284,96,85,2,5218,7,10,171,1126,1056],"class_list":["post-11875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-army","tag-atheism","tag-chaplain","tag-christian","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-rock-beyond-belief","tag-rock-the-fort"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}