{"id":29604,"date":"2014-07-22T00:30:41","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T03:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=29604"},"modified":"2016-11-25T01:21:36","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T04:21:36","slug":"atheists-cite-false-data-in-military-chaplain-bid-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/22\/atheists-cite-false-data-in-military-chaplain-bid-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Atheists Cite False Data in Military Chaplain Bid. Again."},"content":{"rendered":"

Update<\/strong><\/span>:\u00a0\u00a0The Air Force Times repeated the atheist claim that “one in five” troops need “clergy who don’t believe in a god<\/a>.”\u00a0 Also at the Stars and Stripes<\/a> and Washington Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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In what has become a recurring theme, atheists lobbying for a spot in the military chaplaincy misrepresented demographic data to support their cause.\u00a0 Again.\u00a0 The American Humanist Association — which is attempting to endorse the first atheist chaplain<\/a> — equates the military category of “no religious preference” with “a secular values system.”<\/p>\n

“23% of US military soldiers claim “no religious preference” thus indicating a secular values system”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jason Torpy, who has positions at both the American Humanist Association and the Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers, first published this misleading “analysis” in 2010<\/a>, and even presented it to White House staff.\u00a0 (That’s not the only data with which he’s played loose<\/a>.) He recently cited the data again<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As was noted then, the AHA is essentially claiming Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan — who claimed NRP in his records — as a fellow secularist.\u00a0 For many years, Jewish service members selected NRP to avoid hostility while serving in majority Muslim countries.\u00a0 If it isn’t obvious, “no religious preference” does not<\/em> equal a “secular values system.”<\/p>\n

Some members of Congress have grown wise to the “creative” way<\/a> in which atheists have presented the numbers (and have called the idea of an atheist “chaplain” “total nonsense<\/a>“). On the AHA’s Facebook page<\/a>, some of their own supporters criticized the AHA’s use of a conclusion unsupported by evidence.<\/p>\n

It seems some atheists are so intent on joining the chaplaincy that they’re willing to falsely represent factual data to achieve that end.<\/p>\n

Funny, atheists often deride those they think believe in “fairy tales.”<\/p>\n

In the end, integrity is a necessary character trait for military service. That’s a virtue Jason Torpy’s AHA seem to lack.<\/p>\n

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