US Army SFC Dennis Dutton recently came to the MRFF for…help?…after this happened during his graduation from Abrahms Tank Maintainer school at Fort Benning, Georgia, in 2012:
In case you missed it: He’s the one on the stage who didn’t bow his head.
Apparently, it is a point of pride that Read more
Michael Weinstein had toned down his conspiracy theories during the spate of negative press, but recently revived one of his favorites: That Christians are trying to take over the US military to start a nuclear war [edits original]:
People are suffering and the consequences are potentially nuclear war; an apocalypse, but not the biblical one. [Instead,] one [brought about] by this weaponized, twisted, poisonous version of Christianity Read more
The Military Christian Fellowship of Australia published their Crossfire magazine, highlighting a picture from Afghanistan on the cover:
WO2 Andrew Hetherington Personnel attend a Bible reading at the Tarin Kot cenotaph during the stations of the cross Easter service at Multi National Base – Tarin Kot on March 27.
The support that militaries provide for their deployed Read more
An Air Force Airman claims he received verbal reprimands after he was dissatisfied with the Air Force’s response and complained to Michael “Mikey” Weinstein in 2010:
I met with the Cadet Wing Chaplain here at the time and the incident was forwarded up the chain-of-command. After over two weeks of nothing being said to anyone…I decided to bring this to MRFF’s attention. Mikey and MRFF were all over it and came down hard on USAFA.
I received verbal reprimands from Read more
Michael Weinstein — a self-described advocate of religious freedom — apparently has no limits to his disdain for Christianity.
Sojourners Magazine recently published an article on Liberty University’s School of Aeronautics — more specifically, their concentration in Unmanned Aerial Systems. Provocatively titled “Drones for Christ,” author David Swanson sets out to describe
How Jerry Falwell’s Liberty U.—the world’s largest Christian university—became an evangelist for drone warfare.
Problem is, Swanson doesn’t succeed in his telling, because Liberty doesn’t Read more
An official article by Moody Air Force Base’s Public Affairs Senior Airman Jarrod Grammel is entitled “Atheist ponders spiritual fitness.”
As an atheist, people sometimes ask and wonder where I get my sense of purpose. I don’t believe that God created me and has a special purpose for me in life, but rather that I’m the result of 4 billion years of evolutionary success on a minor planet of an average star in a universe with at least 100 billion galaxies.
And that’s perfectly fine with me. My purpose Read more
The group American Atheists recently installed a granite monument in front of the Bradford County courthouse in Starke, Florida. The group placed the monument there as the result of a compromise, after a local Christian group refused to remove their Ten Commandments monument — and then both groups filed First Amendment lawsuits.
David Silverman, the American Atheists president, called his own monument a “counterpoint” and an “attack.”
“We’re not going to let them do it without Read more
When former US Congressman and retired Army Col Allen West recently appeared on Michael Savage’s radio show Savage Nation on the recent issues in the military, he mentioned Michael “Mikey” Weinstein’s name.
Savage cut him off: Read more