It seems atheist Jason Torpy has an Australian ideological doppleganger.<\/p>\n
Reports from Australia indicate the commission in charge of the Australian War Memorial<\/a> had quietly planned to remove the phrase<\/a> “known unto God” from the tomb of their unknown soldier<\/a>:<\/p>\n The sandstone war memorial opened in 1941 to commemorate Australians killed in World War I and is among Canberra’s most popular tourist attractions.<\/p>\n [Memorial director Brendan Nelson] had proposed replacing the phrase “known unto God,” attributed to British writer Rudyard Kipling, with the inscription: “We do not know this Australian’s name, we never will.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n While some complained<\/a> it was an intentional effort to “de-Christianize” the memorial, the commission said it was an attempt to memorialize a speech from an Australian Prime Minister in the 1990s.<\/p>\n A “compromise” now involves adding an inscription in another location:<\/p>\n The memorial’s governing council has settled on a compromise that will include Keating’s 1993 words \u2014 “He is all of them, and he is one of us” \u2014 being inscribed in the stone surrounding the soldier’s grave.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n For his part, Jason Torpy — a former Army Captain and current atheist — is offended by all public displays of religion, even if he only reads about them on the internet<\/a>.\u00a0 Still, he is one of the few with the intellectul consistency to demand that such displays be removed everywhere<\/em> — even from Arlington National Cemetery<\/a>.<\/p>\n Via the ADF<\/a>\u00a0and the Star-Telegram<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
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