{"id":7135,"date":"2010-09-06T00:35:27","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T06:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=7135"},"modified":"2010-09-05T11:19:38","modified_gmt":"2010-09-05T17:19:38","slug":"an-atheist-in-the-chaplains-foxhole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/06\/an-atheist-in-the-chaplains-foxhole\/","title":{"rendered":"An Atheist in the Chaplain&#8217;s Foxhole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> has a <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article_email\/SB10001424052748703467004575463833265055248-lMyQjAxMTAwMDAwNDEwNDQyWj.html#\">fascinating article<\/a> about Navy Chaplain (Lt) Terry Moran and his armed escort, Chaplain&#8217;s assistant RP2 Philip Chute.<\/p>\n<p>Chaplain Moran is a Seventh Day Adventist.\u00a0 Specialist Chute is an atheist.\u00a0 The subtitle says it all: &#8220;This Chaplain is Protected by God&#8230;and by an Atheist&#8230;at War.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lt. Moran takes the Bible at its word, rejects the evolution of species and believes the Earth to be 6,000 years old. He carries a large Bible with him into the combat zone, while RP2 Chute totes writings of Richard Dawkins, the evolutionary biologist and fierce critic of the notion that God designed the universe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If nothing else, it appears the two have a respect for their relative roles:\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>RP2 Chute was senior among Lt. Moran&#8217;s possible assistants. More importantly, he already had two combat tours under his belt, while Lt. Moran hadn&#8217;t yet seen a bullet fly. In the end, Lt. Moran says, he chose experience over faith&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s frustrating to listen to him tell people things I know not to be true, but I know it&#8217;s not my place to get involved when people come to him for help,&#8221; [Chute] said later.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article seems almost intentionally unflattering to Chaplain Moran, but the story is worth the read.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mca-usa.org\/2010\/09\/04\/a-chaplain-and-an-atheist-go-to-war\/\">Military Chaplains Association<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Street Journal has a fascinating article about Navy Chaplain (Lt) Terry Moran and his armed escort, Chaplain&#8217;s assistant RP2 Philip Chute. Chaplain Moran is a Seventh Day Adventist.\u00a0 Specialist Chute is an atheist.\u00a0 The subtitle says it all: &#8220;This Chaplain is Protected by God&#8230;and by an Atheist&#8230;at War.&#8221; Lt. Moran takes the Bible at its word, rejects the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[58,20,5284,785,2,36,984,10,983],"class_list":["post-7135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-afghanistan","tag-atheism","tag-chaplain","tag-chaplain-assistant","tag-military","tag-navy","tag-philip-chute","tag-religion","tag-terry-moran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7135","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=7135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}