Feb 07 2012
We broke so much ground last year, and attracted national media attention. We were on the cover of the New York Times, and when the Associated Press got hold of us – we were on the cover of hundreds of newspapers. All the while, the Chaplaincy’s regulations were preventing us from meeting on post. We’ve …
Feb 07 2012
I’m extremely comforted that the lessons learned at Fort Bragg’s MASH are contagious. Once you organize, a meaningful community quickly follows. It’s amazing how fast Travis Air Force Base organized into something with tangible accomplishments, like the first ever atheist holiday display on a military base – next to the Nativity Scene and Menorah. USAF …
Dec 17 2011
This display will be going up as early as tomorrow morning at Travis Air Force Base, courtesy of American Atheists. Rawlings says the artwork including images of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is playful. Civilians will probably miss out on the real in-joke here. The entire military has inescapable and seemingly endless ‘safety briefings’. It was pretty hilarious …
Nov 11 2011
Jack’s daughter, Jennifer is extremely proud of her father. In one of the more touching moments I’ve witnessed in the facebook group for Military Atheists (and veterans and spouses and supporters…) Jennifer writes: My late father, MSgt. Jack Edward Keeney was a medic and a hospital lab chemist in the Air Force. He was an unwavering …
Nov 08 2011
My friend over in the Air Force, Daniel Rawlings, is an ex-Mormon and out of the closet atheist. He drove hours to make it to many of our awesome MASH Fort Bragg meetings. He has now been reassigned much further away to Travis Air Force Base, in California. Such is the transient nature of military …
Nov 03 2011
Amazingly, this just happened. I already typed this into YouTube’s description, so forgive the 3rd person narrative. The Chaplain respectfully leaves off “so help me god” for the deployed atheist soldier’s re-enlistment ceremony. Chaplain (Colonel) Strohm is overseeing Sergeant Justin Griffith’s re-enlistment ceremony. The Chaplain is a devout Christian with decades of active-duty service. Sergeant …
Oct 29 2011
I’ve been deployed to the sandbox for several months. So I made this: What do you think about my Portal Potty? Don’t get the joke? You must not have played the science and physics-based video game Portal (or it’s incredible sequel – what an ending!) That’s okay, you don’t have to play it to get …
Oct 27 2011
You may remember a few months back when SGT Kloberdanz told us about being kicked out of a Dining Facility for wearing a Bad Religion Shirt. Well, along these same lines comes a story from Navy Atheist CTR2 Michael Wheeler. I’m so proud of all the military atheists shedding the (often justified) fear of coming out of the …
Oct 23 2011
I get Email… and on this day, so did every other person on the entire post. And it didn’t even come from a Chaplain’s e-mail address, rather the command itself. Which wouldn’t necessarily be a problem if it weren’t so overwhelmingly one-sided. This is the same post that denied me the opportunity to distribute Atheist …
Oct 09 2011
This is that rare combination of well-informed reporting and genuinely funny brash sarcasm. Raleigh-based A-News is the DIY equivalent to the Daily Show / Colbert Report for atheists. I have no idea why this show isn’t already massively popular. This entire episode is dedicated to the recently reinvigorated struggle for acceptance by foxhole atheists. Is …
The free festival on Fort Bragg's Main Post Parade Field was a massive success! Expect updates, highlights, and other footage over the next few months.
UPDATE: A second festival is in the works for Camp Pendleton - a large Marine Corps base near San Diego, CA. Summer 2013
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