Tag Archive: Military Atheists

Jul 20 2012

Tea Party congressman blames Dark Knight shooting on atheism, points to military.

Louie Gohmert (R - TX)

Igor Volsky has an incredible story at Think Progress. Volsky uncovered a Texas Tea Party congressman blaming the Aurora shooting on ‘attacks on Christianity’, furthermore citing ‘unreleased’ DoD suicide statistics pointing to atheists killing themselves. Excerpt: Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have expressed their sympathies for the victims in Friday morning’s shooting in …

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Mar 21 2012

Military A-Week: How to put ATHEIST on your records (all branches)

Army Reg 680-29 proof you can select ATHEIST

Yesterday I told you why it was IMPORTANT to stand up and be counted as an “ATHEIST” and not a “NO-REL-PREF”. Today, I’m going to tell you how. Army: Walk in to your unit’s S-1 office. Ask them to update your ERB or ORB. Tell them you want to fix your religious preference. Tell them you …

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Mar 20 2012

“A-week” for the military: Demand ‘ATHEIST’ on your records

SGT Justin Griffith Scarlet A Tattoo

Don’t back down brothers and sisters. Out of those closets. If you have NO-REL-PREF on your records, you are wrong. Go to S-1 today. You walk right in. Tell them you want to update your records. Tell them your religious preference is wrong. They will type a few things. When they get to the correct screen, they’ll …

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Feb 06 2012

Rapture Ready cockroaches pray that the foxhole atheist festival is cancelled

end is near stay tuned

No apocalyptic doomsayer has ever been correct about doomsayings. It seems that a failed end-times prophecy should logically teach adherents a valuable lesson in gullibility (a word that emphatically is in the dictionary, but unfortunately spelled incorrectly in many dictionaries.) You’ve heard the saying about cockroaches surviving even a nuclear world war? Well, much like cockroaches, the …

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Feb 03 2012

Nervous atheist military family “Will Fort Bragg ‘lose’ my housing application?”

T-Rex eats Jesus Fish

Jennifer Andrews is a military spouse who recently moved to Fort Bragg with her husband Brian. She wrote to me about their experiences getting settled in, and it’s quite unsettling. I grew up in the Buffalo area in NY and lived there my entire life, until I married my husband and relocated to Ft Bragg. …

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Feb 03 2012

BBC interviews Justin Griffith, foxhole atheist

bbc

First off, Kate Dailey at the BBC wrote a great article. When she first approached me, I was envisioning a segment to be aired right before Doctor Who (naturally), but it turns out this was for a print + radio segment. Still, it was a refreshing conversation and I’m grateful for the exposure it generated …

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Sep 08 2011

Keep evangelism and politics out of my military funeral, sign this.

With just 1 minute of your time, you can help us debunk the propaganda and lies about -god- and -jesus- being banned from funerals. This is 100% false, and the zealots are winning the PR game. Help!

Aug 26 2011

Military Atheists fight for your rights, please return the favor

I’ve got a special project coming up that requires a few pictures of *very* out foxhole atheists. Candidates need to be willing to appear on a patriotic poster, potentially to be hung in a government building.

Aug 05 2011

TX Congressmen to force Christian prayer over my dead body.

Texas lawmakers want Christianity in every single military veteran funeral statewide. But that’s not how the story is being told.

Aug 02 2011

National Guard advertise jobs in Military Intelligence on Friendly Atheist

Controversial Christian-themed National Guard advertisement is nearly out-done by the Guard’s Military Intelligence ads being ran on Friendly Atheist.

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