The chaplains sponsor numerous events every day, including weekly religious services at both chapels — and regularly advertise them through email distribution, our weekly base paper and through the chapel website.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
In other words, this was just one example of a “regular” pattern of advertising the USAFA chaplaincy (appropriately) does to tell the local military population about the opportunities available to them.<\/p>\n
\nFrom: Bruno, Robert Col USAF USAFA USAFA\/HC
\nTo: Dist P
\nSubject: Eid Al-Adha Observance & Buddhist Tai Chi Class<\/p>\n
This email message and attachments for Distribution P have been approved by Chaplain, Colonel Robert Bruno, US Air Force Academy Chaplain, as an advisory to commanders and as program opportunities open to the entire USAFA community under the sponsorship of the Cadet Wing Chaplain. Participation is on a voluntary basis.\u00a0 Request widest dissemination.<\/p>\n
\/\/signed\/\/<\/p>\n
ROBERT BRUNO
\nChaplain, Colonel, USAF
\nUS Air Force Academy Chaplain
\nUSAF Academy, CO\u00a0 80840-8280<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
This decidedly non-Christian email announcement was unmentioned by Weinstein.<\/p>\n
Same chaplain (Colonel).<\/p>\n
Same distribution list.<\/p>\n
Same (or potentially more<\/em>) presence of sectarian content.<\/p>\nAnd yet, a complete lack of response from Weinstein — no call for court-martial as with the email with Christian content, no claims of Buddhist dominionism or Islamic supremacy as he claimed with the Christian announcement.<\/p>\n
Why<\/em>?<\/p>\nThe answer is simple: It doesn’t fit Weinstein’s narrative of an attempted Christian takeover of USAFA (and the world). By downplaying, ignoring, or hiding “incidents” in which chaplains promote the religious freedom of non-Christian faiths, Weinstein is able to promote the canard that they’re Christian “supremacists” bent on ‘proselytizing’ young, impressionable cadets at USAFA (or old, impressionable officers and enlisted at every base around the world).\u00a0 After all, one can’t claim “bias,” as Weinstein does, if the email is just one of many reflecting the varied faiths of those in the unit.<\/p>\n
Instead of shining a light <\/em>on the religious picture at USAFA, Weinstein is trying to paint <\/em>the picture — and he’s quite selective about which colors he’s using.\u00a0 By publicizing some issues and not others, he’s promoting a perception about USAFA that simply isn’t true.<\/p>\nThis is only the most recent evidence that, like his research assistant Chris Rodda, Michael Weinstein can’t be trusted to accurately communicate the truth of a situation. He has a personal agenda, and he molds his publicity to advance that agenda — regardless of the truth.<\/p>\n
Next time Weinstein hits the CSIndy <\/em>with a claim of religious malfeasance, to borrow a $10 word, you’d better try to find out what the rest of the story is first.\u00a0 That’s good advice for the small segment of the public that actually reads his vitriol, and also senior reporters who choose to publish it without researching it first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a rare break from his focus on Christianity, Military Religious Freedom Foundation “president” Michael Weinstein has called for US Air Force Academy Chaplain (Col) Robert Bruno to be court-martialed for his attempts to convert cadets…to Buddhism: US Air Force Chaplain Colonel Bruno…should face immediate criminal charges under the Uniform Code of Military Justice for these disgusting, prima facie examples […]<\/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":[134,37,54,5284,175,96,1424,82,44,85,2,5218,7,1073,17,10,171,1274,65],"class_list":["post-13910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-air-force","tag-buddhism","tag-catholic","tag-chaplain","tag-chris-rodda","tag-christian","tag-conspiracy","tag-constitution","tag-islam","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-pam-zubeck","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-robert-bruno","tag-usafa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13910","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=13910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}