{"id":15233,"date":"2012-01-19T01:41:19","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T04:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=15233"},"modified":"2015-06-27T19:14:14","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T22:14:14","slug":"atheist-rock-beyond-belief-may-be-cancelled-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/19\/atheist-rock-beyond-belief-may-be-cancelled-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Atheist Rock Beyond Belief may be Cancelled. Again."},"content":{"rendered":"

Though its organizers have said nothing publicly, it seems entirely likely the atheist counter-event to be held at Fort Bragg, NC, known as “Rock Beyond Belief” — the atheist come-back to the Billy Graham Evangelical Association’s “Rock the Fort<\/a>” — will yet again come to loggerheads with the US Army.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In fact, the March 31st “concert” may even be cancelled.\u00a0 Again.<\/p>\n

Its primary organizer, US Army Sgt Justin Griffith<\/a>, cancelled the event once already after the Fort Bragg leadership approved <\/em>the event at a post theater, rather than the parade field he demanded.\u00a0 Once Griffith received a sizeable donation from an atheist<\/a> and provided documentation\u00a0from booked acts, he re-requested the event, and it was approved (again) and he got the parade ground he wanted.\u00a0 All he had to do was what was required to begin with<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This continues to be portrayed as the US Army canceling the event (including by Jason Torpy at the MAAF<\/a>) or discriminating against the atheists, neither of which is true<\/a>.\u00a0 No one representing Rock Beyond Belief has attempted to correct those misperceptions which falsely present the US Army in\u00a0negative light.<\/p>\n

Now, it seems likely the sensationalized melodrama that is “Rock Beyond Belief” will repeat itself.\u00a0 The reason is simple:\u00a0 The atheist event can’t meet the restrictions imposed on it by the military.\u00a0 As the event draws near, the Army will likely remind them what those restrictions are.\u00a0 “Suddenly” finding themselves restricted, the atheists may cry “persecution!”\u00a0 (or “proselytizing!”, a word they often misuse) and cancel themselves (again).<\/p>\n

That the atheists have been aware of these restrictions for months will likely be downplayed.\u00a0 They will also ignore the fact they are getting exactly what they asked for<\/em>:\u00a0 “equal” treatment with every other group on post.\u00a0 They may potentially use the ensuing public controversy as the grounds for their oft-repeated but never-followed-through threatened lawsuit<\/a>, courtesy of Michael Weinstein’s MRFF.\u00a0 Weinstein probably has a press release prepped already.<\/p>\n

Possibly, but less likely, the atheists may put their concert on regardless, and dare the Army to do something about it.<\/p>\n

Alternatively, the military atheist organizers of the counter-Christian event may actually accede and follow the restrictions the leadership imposes on every private organization on the facility.\u00a0 Given their reaction to Fort Bragg’s initial approval of their event — which was <\/em>treated just like every other event — that, too, seems unlikely.<\/p>\n

At this point, it is inconceivable how it is even possible for them to both follow military restrictions and still have their event as they’ve planned it.<\/p>\n

What restrictions, you wonder?\u00a0 Perhaps you should ask them<\/em>…<\/p>\n

It will be interesting to see how they handle it.\u00a0 Probably not surprising<\/em>, but interesting nonetheless…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Though its organizers have said nothing publicly, it seems entirely likely the atheist counter-event to be held at Fort Bragg, NC, known as “Rock Beyond Belief” — the atheist come-back to the Billy Graham Evangelical Association’s “Rock the Fort” — will yet again come to loggerheads with the US Army.\u00a0 In fact, the March 31st “concert” may even be cancelled.\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":[88,20,429,96,1023,253,1055,107,85,2,5218,7,10,171,1126,1056],"class_list":["post-15233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-army","tag-atheism","tag-billy-graham","tag-christian","tag-fort-bragg","tag-jason-torpy","tag-justin-griffith","tag-maaf","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\/15233","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=15233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}