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And I wasn’t even offended! I was running with a few of my soldiers in the morning ‘PT’ session, just before sunrise. Our paths happened to cross and he instinctively said “God bless you” as he passed (or something very similar). I hardly noticed it. I had forgotten about it by the time I received [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Chaplaincy’
Chaplain apologized to me for saying “God bless you”
March 1st, 2012 
Justin Griffith 
Posted in Atheist 
Tags: Chaplain, Chaplaincy, God bless you, Rock Beyond Belief, SGT Griffith 
7 Comments »Spiritual Fitness “not meant to endorse religion” VS Army’s own videos
February 28th, 2012 Justin Griffith These videos may just disappear soon. Grab them while they’re hot! They’re from the Army’s public facing media outreach website. Remember, whenever lawyers and reporters are around, the term ‘spiritual fitness’ has nothing to do with religion. It’s about ‘team spirit‘ and ‘human spirit’. So it’s not illegal when mandatory… CH (MAJ) Choi – Sunday [...]
Posted in Atheist Tags: Army, Chaplaincy, evangelicals, proselytizing, spiritual, Spiritual Fitness 3 Comments »Why the military coin that says “in god we trust” is unconstitutional
February 18th, 2012 Justin Griffith This may be ‘more’ unconstitutional than it is on money. It certainly reveals the man behind the curtain with the coins in your pocket. The motto was first challenged in Aronow v. United States in 1970, but the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled: “It is quite obvious that the national motto and the slogan [...]
Posted in Atheist Tags: Army, Buddhist, Chaplaincy, Fort Dix, In god we trust, military coin 14 Comments »Army brings the first ever Torah Scroll to Afghanistan, tells the world
February 12th, 2012 Justin Griffith This is coming from the Army’s website of pre-packaged videos for the media to pick up. It’s all well and good to be respectful of fallen soldiers, and to embrace diversity among the religious preferences. But to brag about the fact that you brought the first Torah Scroll into a Muslim nation? Probably not a [...]
Spiritual Fitness: “Chaplains are advocates for everyone”
February 10th, 2012 Justin Griffith The above image is part of that mandatory Spiritual Fitness training you (yes, you) can help us debunk! Participate in that survey to help scientists help foxhole atheists. We are still banned on post because of a single sentence in the Chaplain regulations (AR 165-1) “DFGLs will not conduct services before approval by the IMCOM or MEDCOM Command [...]
Posted in Atheist Tags: Advocates for Everyone, beliefs, Chaplaincy, Chaplains, lay leader, MASH, MASH Fort Bragg, Rock Beyond Belief, Spiritual Fitness 2 Comments »Air Force squadron sings ‘Mary Had a Little Lamb’ during mandatory prayers
February 4th, 2012 Justin Griffith Julie M. wrote to me with a pretty funny story: Hi, Good luck. My air force brother asked me to forward this. He hopes you’ll get a kick out of it. He had a squadron commander who liked group prayer. This made two men in my brother’s crew uncomfortable. Solution, organize the whole squadron to [...]
USAFA Chaplain Colonel Robert Bruno stands up for atheists
January 9th, 2012 Justin Griffith Pagans at the Air Force Academy in Colorado now have an outdoor equivalent of a chapel to practice their religion(s). Immediately, Christian groups expressed concern over the $50,000 Falcon Circle at USAFA. Col. Robert Bruno, the academy’s senior chaplain said: “The First Amendment guarantee of freedom of religion does not just apply to the mainstream [...]
Posted in Atheist Tags: Air Force, Air Force Atheists, Barry Lynn, Chaplain, Chaplaincy, Falcon Circle, Mikey Weinstein, Pagan, Robert Bruno, Wicca, Wiccan 17 Comments »Captain Ryan Jean: “Getting ATHEIST on my records took two minutes”
January 5th, 2012 Justin Griffith A while back I posted about a heart wrenching and debate-ending example of why foxhole atheists need to demand NO-REL-PREF be accurately updated on their records to ATHEIST. Many are being told that it’s not possible – and on the contrary it has been for decades. Captain Ryan Jean wrote to me: It took me two minutes [...]
Posted in Atheist Tags: army atheist, Atheist, atheists in foxholes, Captain Ryan Jean, Chaplaincy, dog tags, Dogtags, humanist, lay leader, NO-REL-PREF, Ryan Jean 4 Comments »High ranking chaplain leaves out ‘so help me god’ (awesome video)
November 3rd, 2011 Justin Griffith 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 [...]
Four dimensions and a tree
October 3rd, 2011 Justin Griffith The Army’s justification for the Soldier Fitness Tracker keeps reading from two scripts that contradict each other. One group claims that “Spiritual Fitness” has nothing to do with religion. Rather, it’s talking about “human spirit” or “team spirit”. Obviously, this backtracking is due in large part to the unconstitutional nature of requiring such a test. [...]
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