{"id":28307,"date":"2014-02-10T01:33:34","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T04:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=28307"},"modified":"2016-10-01T23:40:48","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T02:40:48","slug":"there-are-no-agnostics-in-foxholes-but-there-are-quakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/10\/there-are-no-agnostics-in-foxholes-but-there-are-quakers\/","title":{"rendered":"There are No Agnostics in Foxholes (but there are Quakers)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an article on the recent changes in DoD policy <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/27\/update-responses-to-dod-changes-on-religion-rules\/\">regarding religious accommodation<\/a>, USA Today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/nation\/2014\/02\/04\/religious-accommodation-pentagon\/5190635\/\">made this observation<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The wide variety of worship or lack thereof is reflected in the ranks of the 1.3 million active-duty force. Troops aren&#8217;t compelled to report but many do. The most popular affiliations: Christian, no denomination chosen, 346,752; no religious preference, 277,563; Roman Catholic, 262,248.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the ranks, there are 301 Quakers and 1,561 troops who practice witchcraft. But you won&#8217;t an agnostic in the Army. There are 3,126 atheists but not one agnostic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To be fair, the same demographics note there are more than 6,000 agnostics in the <em>other<\/em> three services.\u00a0 Apparently everyone in the Army is certain &#8212; one way or the other.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Repeated at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/article\/20140204\/NEWS\/302040008\">Air Force Times<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-layout=\"standard\" data-action=\"like\" data-size=\"small\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-share=\"true\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an article on the recent changes in DoD policy regarding religious accommodation, USA Today made this observation: The wide variety of worship or lack thereof is reflected in the ranks of the 1.3 million active-duty force. Troops aren&#8217;t compelled to report but many do. The most popular affiliations: Christian, no denomination chosen, 346,752; no religious preference, 277,563; Roman Catholic, [&#8230;]<\/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":[50,20,54,96,2,950,10,171,2506],"class_list":["post-28307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-agnostic","tag-atheism","tag-catholic","tag-christian","tag-military","tag-quaker","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-witch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28307","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=28307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}