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Wednesday, June 22, 2005

Whitewash
Posted by Jill | 6:40 PM

What part of "You're going to burn in the fires of hell" is said to another human being "without malice"?

The U.S. Air Force Academy failed to accommodate minority beliefs but there is no overt religious discrimination at the college, an Air Force report on the religious climate at the institution said on Wednesday.
The report was prompted by allegations that the prestigious academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, which produces junior officers for the Air Force, promotes evangelical Christianity and a climate of intolerance toward other religious beliefs.

"There was a lack of awareness on the part of some faculty and staff, and perhaps cadets in positions of authority, as to what constitutes appropriate expressions of faith, particularly in this setting: in superior-subordinate relationships in a government institution," Air Force Lt. Gen. Roger Brady, who headed the report, told a Pentagon briefing.

The U.S. Constitution mandates a separation of church and state.

A team from Yale Divinity School said in April it found evangelical Christian proselytizing commonplace at the academy, which has about 4,400 students, and cited "stridently evangelical themes" by staff. The team described a campus chaplain telling cadets they would "burn in the fires of hell" if they were not born-again Christians.

The Air Force report said that it found "the root of this problem is not overt religious discrimination." Brady said problems were neither pervasive nor institutionalized, and that faculty and staff who acted inappropriately did not do so with malice.


This report is a complete whitewash. Fundamentalist Christians justify their "efforts at conversion" with the idea that telling people God hates them unless they toe a particular doctrine constitutes "sharing God's love." Sorry, folks, but this isn't "sharing love", this is hatemongering, and if "accommodating Christian beliefs" means allowing to tell other people that they must believe a certain way or burn in hell, well, perhaps some beliefs ought not to be accommodated. Your right to believe ends at my nose.

And a United States military that allows this kind of focus in its training can't have any credibility when it says it's not on a religious crusade.
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