{"id":6328,"date":"2011-06-02T22:20:28","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T05:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=6328"},"modified":"2011-06-02T22:20:28","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T05:20:28","slug":"flyin-fightin-prayin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=6328","title":{"rendered":"Flyin’ & Fightin’ (& Prayin’)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guess I haven’t been paying attention. I thought the issue of unwanted religious proselytizing at the US Air Force Academy came up, and had been dealt with, during the first George W. Bush administration. But a friend sent me a link to a military-issues blog post<\/a> that says it’s still going on and is as bad as ever.<\/p>\n

Some of my colleagues in the military were evangelical types, but no one ever pushed religion on me to the extent I hear it\u2019s being pushed at the Academy. I never made a secret of my atheism, but I didn\u2019t flaunt it either. I never felt discriminated against, and I certainly never felt there was an inner circle of evangelical religious leaders secretly running things (although there were certainly many in senior positions).<\/p>\n

I\u2019m disturbed, though, that after all the commotion that\u2019s been raised about it in recent years, Christianist officers, civilian faculty members, and peers are still proselytizing cadets at the Academy.<\/p>\n

Once you\u2019re an officer you can tell your fellow officers … even senior officers … that you have your own beliefs, but when you\u2019re a cadet you do what you\u2019re told and keep your private doubts and thoughts to yourself. The Academy is a coercive environment, and the evangelicals, like bullies anywhere, are taking advantage of that.<\/p>\n

Religion should be strictly off-limits at the Academy, and I can\u2019t believe no one in the USAF leadership has the balls to make it so.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the good Christians at the US Air Force Academy are poisoning their critics’ seeing-eye dogs.\u00a0 I’ll let you draw your own conclusions on that. I certainly have drawn mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guess I haven’t been paying attention. I thought the issue of unwanted religious proselytizing at the US Air Force Academy came up, and had been dealt with, during the first George W. Bush administration. But a friend sent me a link to a military-issues blog post that says it’s still going on and is as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-military"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6328"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6330,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6328\/revisions\/6330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}