http://www.al.com/huntsvilletimes/stories/index.ssf?/base/living/119159190395050.xml&coll=1 GODLESS SOLDIERSMany soldiers say they face harassment from Christian comradesBy KAY CAMPBELLkay.campbell@htimes.com In the midst of their fight to bring freedom to Iraq and Afghanistan, some American soldiers are finding their own freedoms threatened by the troops on their own side.Though the U.S. Constitution mandates that the government apply no test of faith for employment – and, one presumes, deployment – of American citizens, soldiers who are open about being non-believers can face harassment and ostracizing from fellow troops and their officers, some say.”We didn’t let anyone know we were atheists,” said Steve Moore of Huntsville, who served two tours in Iraq as an Army staff sergeant.Moore and his wife, Renee, also an Army veteran, were taking a break a couple of weeks ago from packing goody boxes for non-believing soldiers for the project Operation Foxhole Atheist sponsored by the North Alabama Freethought Association.”We didn’t want any stigma to thwart our career,” Moore said. “There is nothing more frightening than a radical fundamentalist with an assault rifle.”
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I guess the military better not press this christianity business too much…
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10420
You may someday find that there are ONLY atheists in foxholes.
Forget Atheists in Foxholes… I want to see more conscripts in foxholes.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/15/AR2007101500841.html
Well, no one took up my challenge. But the answer is, I think, the Catholic Crusaders in 1204 who sacked the city of Constantinople. They looted, and then burned, and massacred men, women, and children. Killing priests and burning churches was also part. Apparently the Greek Orthodox xians were not xian enough for the Roman Catholic true xians.
Or maybe that was just an excuse and they were only in it for the loot.
bernarda,
I didn’t take you up on your challenge, because I was unable to find the answer. But I was waiting impatiently for your answer.
I actually thought it might have been those college students in Alabama (I think) that burned down 6 churches over the course of a couple of weeks a few years ago.
Phreedm,
This one is for you.
Got it Ren…I will study up on in to try and understand…
Thanks…
phreedm@yahoo.com
What the hell! There are way mor radical MOSLEM fundamentalists with guns who aren’t shy about blowing themselves upto kill children ! Face reality!
Yes Jimmy, the christians tend to use delivery systems that don’t require blowing themselves up. I seriously doubt the children that are killed really care one way or the other.
Jimmy,
What would you do if your country was invaded and you were subjugated without hope of ever being free because you happened to live on top of a resource that the invading army wanted?
Don’t even say it’s not about oil, because if it weren’t, we would be in Darfur, Sudan where Genocide is happening right now, not twenty years ago when they were our allies.
Question: How do you stop an enemy tank with a rifle?
Answer: You put the rifle down and you build IEDs and VBEDs instead.
Question: Who didn’t see that coming?
Answer: The Bush administration and 80% of Americans.
I watched a program on the military channel recently about soldiers on patrol in Iraq. One of the NCO’s made the statement that he didn’t mind fighting the enemy face to face like men, but he was scared to death of IEDs and said that those that planted them were cowards.
The very next program dealt with the new GPS guided MLRS that carries several different warheads and can kill anything from troops in the open, to command and control centers… from 60 miles away. Now I ask you: Who are the cowards?
If you are under 42 yrs of age and have only one felony conviction, you can get up to $40,000 to sign up for the Army. Be my guest! Tell ‘em I sent you and I can even get $1,000 for the referal. (Actually I cannot since I am no longer in the Army, but you can give them my wife’s name!)