{"id":14988,"date":"2011-12-27T00:52:50","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T03:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=14988"},"modified":"2015-06-27T19:14:18","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T22:14:18","slug":"undercurrent-of-atheist-mockery-at-travis-afb-christmas-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/27\/undercurrent-of-atheist-mockery-at-travis-afb-christmas-display\/","title":{"rendered":"Undercurrent of Atheist Mockery at Travis AFB Christmas Display"},"content":{"rendered":"

A variety of sites<\/a> have noted the decision by Travis AFB to defend its nativity and Menorah<\/a>.\u00a0 A few have noted the Travis AFB chaplains helped local atheist Airman SSgt Dan Rawlings erect an atheist display<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As more find out about it, more commenters\u00a0are also questioning the Air Force’s decision to allow <\/em>the atheist sign — not because of the sign itself, but the “flying spaghetti monster” on it [ellipses original]:<\/p>\n

the flying spaghetti monster display is now up\u2026mocking every belief out there. They had a great opportunity to be recognized and they turned it into a mockery. Sad, really. Great job staff sergeant\u202617 years without a complaint, you come along\u2026complain, then mock everyone with your display. Isn\u2019t that against military policies\u2026to mock others?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As noted previously, even local non-religious <\/em>people have said\u00a0the atheists appear to be\u00a0mocking their fellow Airmen by including the “flying spaghetti monster” on their sign.\u00a0 Again, as said before, official articles indicate the Air Force has\u00a0a “zero tolerance” policy on “disparaging” others’ race, ethnicity, sex, color, disability…and religion<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

The FSM was “invented” several years ago…as a parody for God.<\/p>\n

The nativity allows Christians to celebrate Christmas.\u00a0 The Menorah allows Jews to celebrate Hanukkah.\u00a0 The 22 other cards allow military members of any persuasion to celebrate Santa, gift-giving, family, or whatever they want.<\/p>\n

The atheists are the only\u00a0ones\u00a0to use their\u00a0display\u00a0to belittle the beliefs of their fellow Airmen, rather than celebrate something of their own.<\/p>\n

If this were any other belief system, Michael Weinstein and Jason Torpy would be excoriating the military for making servicemembers feel like ‘second class’ citizens.\u00a0 But then, the central tenet of atheism seems to be<\/em> mockery, doesn’t it?\u00a0 As said before, atheists are establishing themselves as nothing more than an asterisk on Christianity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A variety of sites have noted the decision by Travis AFB to defend its nativity and Menorah.\u00a0 A few have noted the Travis AFB chaplains helped local atheist Airman SSgt Dan Rawlings erect an atheist display. As more find out about it, more commenters\u00a0are also questioning the Air Force’s decision to allow the atheist sign — not because of the […]<\/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":[134,100,20,5284,1998,96,108,4,78,82,2632,2634,19,253,39,1193,85,2,5218,7,1235,17,10,171,40,2624],"class_list":["post-14988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-air-force","tag-alliance-defense-fund","tag-atheism","tag-chaplain","tag-chaplain-alliance-for-religious-liberty","tag-christian","tag-christmas","tag-churchandstate","tag-congress","tag-constitution","tag-dan-rawlings","tag-flying-spaghetti-monster","tag-government","tag-jason-torpy","tag-jewish","tag-menorah","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-nativity","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-tradition","tag-travis-afb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14988","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=14988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}