{"id":412,"date":"2009-09-28T00:30:33","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T07:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=412"},"modified":"2009-09-28T21:02:16","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T04:02:16","slug":"grant-for-military-non-theist-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/28\/grant-for-military-non-theist-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Grant for Military Non-theist Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While those who encourage the &#8220;mixing&#8221; of faith and the military profession are sometimes criticized, it appears there are specific efforts to promote the &#8220;mixing&#8221; of <em>non<\/em>-faith and the military.\u00a0 In an interesting twist on encouraging leadership development, the Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers is offering a $500 &#8220;educational grant for military and nontheist leadership and activism.&#8221;\u00a0 The award is &#8220;particularly&#8221; aimed at military cadets.\u00a0 <!--more-->From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maaf.info\/leadergrant.html\">their website<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The military has always been a source of leaders in the United States. MAAF would like to encourage and support nontheist military student leaders&#8230;[and] will award $500 to a student leader who has demonstrated excellence in both military and nontheist activities. The military includes both current and prior service, all branches, and particularly ROTC and academy cadets. Nontheist activities include participation in&#8230;organizations with atheist, humanist, agnostic or other nontheist focuses&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>This program should also provide an opportunity for student organizations to reach out to local military installations and to ROTC programs. Let them know that there is nontheist support for them as well and that our community is supportive of the military&#8230;The application period is August 9th to October 13th, 2009.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Interestingly, though it is to be awarded for &#8220;nontheist&#8221; activities (which would include any organization that did not advocate a belief in God), the MAAF limits &#8220;nontheist&#8221; organizations to those with an ideological worldview that is arguable <em>anti-<\/em>theistic.\u00a0 That is, of course, their right.<\/p>\n<p>Despite stereotype to the contrary, it would seem encouraging like-minded future leaders is not\u00a0limited to those with religious beliefs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While those who encourage the &#8220;mixing&#8221; of faith and the military profession are sometimes criticized, it appears there are specific efforts to promote the &#8220;mixing&#8221; of non-faith and the military.\u00a0 In an interesting twist on encouraging leadership development, the Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers is offering a $500 &#8220;educational grant for military and nontheist leadership and activism.&#8221;\u00a0 The award [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[50,20,4,70,2,17,10,51],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-academies","category-culture","tag-agnostic","tag-atheism","tag-churchandstate","tag-evangelism","tag-military","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-scholarship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","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=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}