My wife, Tianna, recently rescued a very pregnant abandoned cat. This cat was extremely friendly with humans, indicating that this is yet another abandoned pet in a military town, in this case Fort Bragg, North Carolina. All three of her kittens are now dead. Friday night we found out that a local man attempted to drown …
Tag Archive: Fort Bragg
Oct 07 2012
News Poll: Should the military host large scale (religious) events?
Fort Bragg Patch reporter, Kelly Twedell, has a nice write-up about how the U.S. Air Force Academy undermined a planned speaking engagement from Richard Dawkins at the last minute. Via Fort Bragg Patch …The U.S. Air Force Academy has pulled out of their commitment with no concrete reasons to host a previously planned speaking engagement …
Sep 25 2012
Fort Bragg now hiring a civilian to proselytize to youths
Need a job, but don’t want to get bogged down with constitutional boundaries? Well, Fort Bragg is hiring! 2) Coordinate community-wide and/or Neighborhood Youth Outreach/Club Meetings (may be non- and multi-denominational). These are group meetings of teens and adult leaders are designed to attract and relate to youth from throughout the Fort Bragg military community, …
Aug 04 2012
Dangerous messages sent to kids on US Navy bases
The original photograph shows a large advertisement for a Vacation Bible School on a US Navy base. Transportation is included. Equality is not. I’m not sure which base this photograph came from, but it’s far from an isolated incident. Here’s a write-up in the Periscope, an in-house PR rag for Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay …
Aug 04 2012
Trolled by Sniper Jesus
It was actually Sniper Jesus that was apparently inserted into the chain of command at a Fort Bragg unit. I still think this was a real photo (the shadow is consistent, albeit from a smaller frame). However, I doubt that this picture would fly very long. It was probably either somebody goofing around, or otherwise …
Aug 04 2012
Jesus above Obama in chain of command photos, is this real?
Word on the street is that this happened at Fort Bragg. If you know anything about where this photo was taken, please let me know. This is completely inappropriate. It’s also illegal to affix religious symbols in, on, or outside of a chapel. This rule has been consistently applied to many contexts including other buildings, …
Jul 28 2012
Another military base hires civilians to proselytize to children
Chris Rodda has a great post about what is going on at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska (a base that has been on MRFF’s radar for quite a while) is really ramping up the fundamentalist activities this fall, heavily pushing the “convert everybody” meme. The article on the Elmendorf-Richardson website begins: When Jesus gave …
Jul 20 2012
When foxhole atheists find each other, they organize
Sergeant Joshua Gould is a foxhole atheist stationed at Fort Bragg. He wrote to me with two important questions, so I’m breaking them into two posts. Do you have some sort of club? So I have been reading your blog for a while and I went to the Rock Beyond Belief a few months ago. …
Jul 19 2012
Look! I’m in the July / August 2012 issue of Playboy Magazine
Sort of… Well, my activism is in the new issue of Playboy, anyway. Neat! It may appear on slightly different pages, regionally. Perhaps not at all internationally. Cliche ‘I read the articles’ jokes aside, I’ve really seen some interesting articles in the pages of that mag. Shit, I even discovered Peter Max’s artwork through Playboy. …

















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