Vital Remnants: Headline of the Week: "Chaplains wanted for atheists in foxholes"

Wednesday, December 07, 2011

Headline of the Week: "Chaplains wanted for atheists in foxholes"

Atheists now want their own chaplains in the military. But remember, atheism is not a religion. Keep repeating it. Over and over again.

Check it out here.

Labels: atheism

# posted by Martin Cothran @ 7:00 AM

Comments:

'Military chaplains, most of whom are Protestant Christians, are assigned many secular advising duties, including marriage, family and suicide counseling,...'

What exactly does the execution of secular duties by a non-religious 'chaplain' have to do with religion, Martin?

# posted by

Singring : 6:59 AM

Martin,

Are you capable of understanding that a pastor who tells people that the only solution to their problems is Jesus probably isn't someone an atheist would want to go to for marriage counseling? All you care about is trying to score points for your silly belief that not worshipping gods is the same thing as worshipping gods.

# posted by

KyCobb : 10:18 AM

> All you care about is trying to score points for your silly belief that not worshipping gods is the same thing as worshipping gods.

This implies that it's morally wrong to worship God, or any god.

But we already established in earlier threads that you don't believe in moral absolutes.

So I guess it's silly to chide someone for being silly.

# posted by

Lee : 4:11 PM

Lee,

I didn't imply any such thing. I merely pointed out that claiming that the exact opposite of worshipping gods is the same thing as worshipping gods is silly. My point would be true even if it was morally wrong not to worship God, as you believe.

# posted by

KyCobb : 8:05 PM