{"id":42979,"date":"2018-03-21T00:15:43","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T03:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=42979"},"modified":"2018-03-21T09:44:49","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T12:44:49","slug":"us-senator-wicker-atheism-incompatible-with-military-chaplaincy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/21\/us-senator-wicker-atheism-incompatible-with-military-chaplaincy\/","title":{"rendered":"US Senator Wicker: Atheism Incompatible with Military Chaplaincy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Responding to the leaked news<\/a> that the Navy is considering a “humanist” chaplain, Republican Senator Roger Wicker wrote a column<\/a> published at FoxNews that said an atheist should not be put in the “undeniably religious position” of a military chaplain:<\/p>\n

I oppose the appointment of a \u201csecular-humanist\u201d chaplain, and I have formally requested that the secretary of the Navy and the chief of naval operations reject this application. I am not alone in my request. Twenty-two of my colleagues in the Senate have joined me in this effort.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Senator Wicker notes with some irony that it is “well within [the Navy’s] authority” to create all kinds<\/em> of programs to serve atheists without having to put non-religious<\/strong> people in religious<\/strong> positions.<\/p>\n

Humanists and atheists have been arguing for years among themselves about the ways to integrate — or infiltrate — the chaplaincy, or even if it makes sense to do so.\u00a0Atheists can’t even agree among themselves on what their ‘core beliefs’ are — or even if they have them.\u00a0 Some atheists balk at the idea of an atheist “belief”, while other atheists try to frame atheism as a “religious tradition”\u00a0that isn’t religious.<\/p>\n

These atheists want to be<\/strong> different without being<\/strong> different. They can’t have it both ways. If they want the protections and “privilege” of<\/strong> religion, they need to get<\/strong> religion.<\/p>\n

Some atheists have joked that atheism is a religion like bald is a hair color.\u00a0 Demanding an atheist “chaplain” is akin to demanding a barber for that bald hair color.<\/p>\n

Put another way, demanding an atheist chaplain for equality is like a man demanding a pap smear in the name of equal treatment.<\/p>\n

It’s just nonsense.<\/p>\n

Also at the Family Research Council<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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