"I love it when mortals claim they know anything about any supposed immortal beings let alone any further supposed "Supreme Being". It's so entertaining. It makes it so easy to pick out the truly self-deceived. The voices in your head come from yourself only. It's a self-created fantasy-feedback loop."

That chapel is one of the ugliest buildings I have seen in a long time. Don't these people know that even architecture can be a sin?! What an eye-sore!
(Sorry, I haven't read the article yet, but had to get this off my chest)

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Yes, but please let's not turn this discussion into a privatized (personal) woe -- like Dick Cheney empathizing with lesbians because his daughter happens to be one; which means, by default, that had he not had a lesbian daughter he'd be out, like the rabid Bushies, with pitchfork and dagger, against the gay community of progressives fighting their life or death struggle for attaining basic civil liberties. Christian trash has permeated every aspect of this society, thanks to Bush, mainly, but also because religion exists in a privileged category. People avowing any relationship to God, who are conservative Christian, are beyond any sort of criticism and turn themselves quickly into the victim role whenever criticized; which as this article shows, could be seen as a HUGE lie; given that they are always on the offensive and attack against those who are vulnerable in society. They convert like this because they are rabidly aggressive and violent, psychologically speaking.

There is a much longer and broader history of trampling on free exercise. This includes castigating those who are not of the conservative ilk, or of other faith groups, saying in some instances that those not of their faith do not belong serving in this nation's armed forces. Or interfering with other expressions of faith than their own in one way or another. That is simply wrong, and that the authorities do not apply equal protection to individual rights is abhorrent. This includes those who choose to not express belief in a higher power. All of us have Constitutional rights that our fine women and men in uniform have volunteered to defend on our behalf. A small minority should not determine who is and who is not "better" or "right-er" than they think they are.

Interestingly, the Luftwaffe was the most Nazi of Hitler's regular armed forces (not including the SS).
These christofascists need to be turfed out of the military; Obama, of course, will do nothing.

The last time I checked, Andrei was a male name, so his thought about abortion are irrelevant.

Last time I checked, armed forces were in the business of killing, and using Jesus as propaganda to hide this is hypocrisy. The Air Force is treading on very thin ice allowing hazing of this nature. Bullying by any name stinks.

I don't like religious fanatics & if I read my bible correctly, The Creator Of The Universe isn't too pleased with them either. If you hold to Christian beliefs you know that God came down her personally, in a cloak of humanity and got himself whacked for His trouble. Who did it? You guessed it, religious fanatics.

These are some of the same idiots who've hijacked the Christian faith and gotten everyone made at it. To the point where lots of folks, including many commenting here, believe that Christianity has no business in the public discourse and they even question this Nation's Christian roots (which is just poor historical knowledge, with apologies to the several deists among our Founders). The religious community has nobody to blame but themselves (and well, SATAN, but not everyone believes in him)

As a particular brand of Christian (e.g. a "real" one) I must point out that our faith is not or has ever been a religion. Christianity describes a certain relationship with The Creator, period. While I think there's a place for The Faith in the Air Force's academic community, I cannot defend the cultic schemes of the religious fanatics. They're charged with being dishonest and double dealing & rightly so. It's too bad so many folks confuse God and His true business on Earth with these idiots.

As a cadet, your life, your future is in the hands of those senior to you. They can make or break you, with but a few caveats involving sexual, racial, and religious constraints. These lines can no longer be crossed; giving all minorities legal, constitutional remedies against this sort of coercion. Cadets must go through their superiors for approval, survival & advancement; there is no other way. This is not a private, religious institution. It's lifeblood is derived from taxes on atheists & agnostics, muslims & buddhists, & christians alike. Those in superior positions are too powerful, within the confines of this institution, to be allowed the coercion of proselytizing to extremely & uniquely vunerable subordinates.

Thanks again to Mikey Weinstein for being there. Someone has to be a check against religious fanatics because as with the rest of this country, with the military basically in charge, it does the country no good to be sponsoring state religion especially in the military. That is just asking for some fool 'believer in the supernatural, not of this earth', believer deciding he/she should get a nuke and incinerate Sodom and Gomorrah(pick your cities) as surely as they are evil and filled with the devil's disciples.

With all that, it would then turn to being asked what is your religion and then being told to step to the left or right by the 'great selector', separating the chaff from the grain better known as winnowing out the 'life unworthy of life'.

I tolerate my friends and family members religious belief as it is upon themselves to be de-proselytized when they find everything behind that door is empty of the facade of good and teaming with the evil that festers in this world.

Many decades ago there were chaplains of several faiths at USAFA, including a rabbi. Now there seems to be no alternative to the evangelical zealots in power -- are other chaplains still there but silenced, or totally gone? This is an atrocity, but the entire city of Colorado Springs seems to be the source of this plague for civilians as well as military. Does the academy curriculum still include American History, taught by scholars, or do they teach only an evangelical perversion of it? And for this atrocity we pay taxes!!!

and i thought that conversions r terrifying indians only in the reign of Gandhi family turned Sonia Manio Family!

H Bombs and Religion Dont Mix!

By the way, the chapel reminds me of a prehistoric monster.