{"id":221,"date":"2008-08-07T21:06:35","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T04:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=221"},"modified":"2008-08-12T20:57:16","modified_gmt":"2008-08-13T03:57:16","slug":"chief-chaplain-on-religion-in-the-af","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/07\/chief-chaplain-on-religion-in-the-af\/","title":{"rendered":"Chief Chaplain on Religion in the AF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maj Gen Cecil Richardson, Air Force Chief of Chaplains (previously noted <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=179\">here<\/a>), was interviewed by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/2008\/08\/airforce_chaplain_080708\/\">Air Force Times<\/a>.\u00a0 Notable quotes on religion in the Air Force:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>[I]f you\u2019re just introducing yourself to someone and you say I\u2019m married, I have three kids, I\u2019m from Ohio, I\u2019m a Roman Catholic and my faith is an important part of my life, no problem&#8230;If you&#8230;say, \u201cIf you want to be a good airman, a good officer and a good student &#8230; you have to be Roman Catholic or Baptist,\u201d then you\u2019ve gone over the line.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s true the other way around. I\u2019ve met guys who say, \u201cI\u2019ve got a commander who\u2019s very anti-religious. <!--more-->He\u2019s let it be known that you don\u2019t go bringing the Bible into the work area or bowing in the corner before a meal or you don\u2019t talk about Jesus.\u201d &#8230; That\u2019s over the line.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Q. If one airman wants to talk to another airman about Jesus, when do they have to back off?<\/p>\n<p>A. The same place they back off if it\u2019s someone pressuring you about playing golf. We have rules that are very clear, very good, about harassment and undue pressure and undue influence. If a guy says, \u201cCome play golf with me.\u201d Nah, nah, don\u2019t want to do it. Then he comes back, \u201cCome play golf with me.\u201d I told you, I don\u2019t want to do that. If he comes back again, you say, \u201cMan, you\u2019re harassing me. Back off!\u201d Then, if he doesn\u2019t back off, you go to your supervisors. We\u2019ve got rules about that. We don\u2019t do that stuff. Religion is no different.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maj Gen Cecil Richardson, Air Force Chief of Chaplains (previously noted here), was interviewed by the Air Force Times.\u00a0 Notable quotes on religion in the Air Force: [I]f you\u2019re just introducing yourself to someone and you say I\u2019m married, I have three kids, I\u2019m from Ohio, I\u2019m a Roman Catholic and my faith is an important part of my life, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","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=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}