[August]

Ignore? Hardly, it illustrates my point. It's pure gobbledegook Skybird, written to make a mountain out of a mole hill for political purposes. "Conservative Christian values"? Calling them Christians wasn't bad enough apparently, now they're "conservative" Christians. So what's next? "Neo-Christians"?

If the US military has indeed moved to the christian right since the Vietnam war, and that's very debatable given the strong religious backround of the great majority of our military leaders over the two centuries of our national history (and the fact that there are few athiests in foxholes), perhaps it's because ever since the Vietnam war the left has done all it could to alienate them. For example, calling our servicemen and women "murderers" and "baby killers" and throwing feces at them. Don't tell me it didn't happen Skybird. I've seen it with my own eyes. Or offhandedly insulting our troops intelligence like John Kerry did recently, or Algore and co trying to get military absentee ballots thrown out on technicalities like they did in the Y2K presidential election.

If you look hard enough you can find somebody to echo any argument you want to make Skybird and athiests are quite adept at using the internet to make their arguments, but that doesn't make it a valid problem. So far all you have shown with all your and Tchockys links is that there were at one time some overzealous Chaplains in the service academy of one single branch, and that the issue was addressed by the command several years ago. This does not prove that such things are prevailent in our military nor does it prove that athiesm is a better way of life.

The way i see it athiests tend to preach their beliefs (or lack thereof) with even more fervor than the most radical holy roller. Like many Muslims you are so fond of villifying, athiests walk around with the classic chip on their shoulder looking for things to get outraged about. When more than just them are worried about it then it might be a real issue, but until then i see it as just another athiest strawman argument.