US Military: Unconstitutional Discrimination Against Atheists & Agnostics

Countdown with Keith Olbermann, MSNBC, 1-6-2011

Mikey Weinstein,
Military Religious Freedom Foundation

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News & Politics

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• religion
• god
• jesus
• bible
• atheism
• agnostics
• troops
• military
• soldiers
• spiritual
• spirituality
• test
• air
• force
• navy
• army
• foxholes

[trubble76trubble]

Thou Shalt Not Kill. I don't recall seeing any exceptions mentioned in the decalogue.

The US is rapidly becoming a christian fundamentalist country, becoming a western version of Iran.

Religion is poison.

[spartacandream]

@KasparHauser5 I don't know about anyone else, but I want to keep theists far away from those launch buttons. I don't feel safe having those triggerhappy Armageddon-thirsters so close to setting off mushroom clouds

[mrtadreamer]

If the atheists resign the military, at least that would clear out all of the cowards.

[Ga5524]

@trubble76trubble "Thou Shall Not Kill" what an oxymoron!!!

[VerumAdNauseam]

The UCMJ is unconstitutional.

[Mee551able]

The thing is I know theres no god and I got a feeling they dont think there is. They have to keep saying god to keep churches bringing in the cash and christmas bringing in cash

[AustriaRollerblading]

Christians suck ass!!!  -An Atheist.

[halonone]

@JohnSheridan10001 Afraid of wars? No, we're just not as anxious to run around killing people.

[gethsoftware]

damn those yaweists. their main way of reprodosing seemes to be douchebagery.

[epit0me]

@JohnSheridan10001 i'll discriminate against you because you don't know the difference between 'they're' and 'there' --- from: an athiest

[redrum41987]

TRUE goodness is trying to help people even with the fact that none of it will matter when you're dead. - An Atheist

[elsparx]

@JohnSheridan10001 That's not only fucking idiotic but it's also disrespecting every atheist soldier who has fought and died for your country. Don't even say that bullshit "There's no atheists in foxholes".

[macgeek2004]

@JohnSeridan10001

Yeah, because us Atheists aren't "smart" enough to use our REAL NAMES in our screen-names, like _you_ are! ;~) lol!

But no, seriously, man, you're a huge, (arrogant, ignorant) dick!

[MaxBlight]

@JohnSheridan10001 oh lol, "there not normal people" LOL, you do know that chances is, your doctors an atheists? your neighbors an atheists, the bagger boy at your favorite store is probably an atheists, you dog is probly an atheists. I guess, that means rational thinking is not normal.

Lets all look up, and copy turkeys, drown themselves with rain....

[MaxBlight]

@JohnSheridan10001 are you sure? im in the usmc, and been deployed so many times now, and im an atheists.

So a bunch of suiciders better for the military?

[100ProcentNasze]

A Winstein suing...really? And we're gonna ask from some money for the foundation, aren't we??

[jeff61177]

And now we see where this story is really going...."and We are going to sue them". How sweet.

[Calebmoyer]

well. thank god i joined the navy, and thank god i'm an atheist.

[MultiUniv3rsal]

Glad I got out in '08

[GunsOfThePhoenix]

I will join the military but, i will just bullshit this to get them out of my hair.

[KingofTheMafia]

i had to take that bullshit test

[LererDesignStudio]

Oye!

How are these religious United States military warriors different from the Islamic Jihad-ist? How can the US claim to be fighting in the name of democratic freedom? 

Tax payers....

Let's take their funding away!

[tree003a]

bad people do bad things, good people do good things but only religion makes good people do bad things. the military needs soldiers to do bad things that is why the military is forcing the soldiers to be religious. much easier to make soldiers commit horror when they believe it is gods will and that the enemy they face are infedals or hethens. 

[givebirthathome]

@Ti1nah hahahahaha....I'm religious though, so I dislike alot seeing it perverted to these ends in general. Y'never know though...there may be some silver linings to this cloud.

[Ti1nah]

@givebirthathome - Perhaps a US military where the soldiers will counter

the enemy's shouts of Allahhu akbar with shouts of Halleluja is what they are aiming for?

[Ti1nah]

@givebirthathome - Yes indeed, water torture has been around for a long time. It was used some 110 years ago by the US troops that invaded the Philippines.

Source: "Little Brown Brother" by Leon Wolff.