Exploring the remnants of an Amazon.com sale for an $2.99 e-book titled Spiritual Resilience: Renewing the Soldier’s Mind. This item was later removed.It lists *Loss of Faith* as a symptom of PTSD.
Tag Archive: Soldier Fitness Tracker
Feb 25 2011
Al Stefanelli Joins the lineup
Fort Bragg has signaled that they are all but finalized with their approval of our event. We are eager to stop stringing along so many great guests for a pretty cool opportunity to speak on a military base. The extensive process of being approved necessitated this situation, and now that we seem to have locked …
Feb 13 2011
Army’s Spiritual Misfits must complete Spiritual Fitness training
The screen capture above is dated 13 February 2011. Compare to last month’s quote from the people behind this test: [The upper leadership behind the Soldier Fitness Tracker] says the training module only offers ideas for developing one’s spiritual side. It is not mandatory and has no effect on one’s career. – 13 January 2011. …
Feb 05 2011
US Army’s Virtual Spiritual Fitness Center Opens, Says Atheism = Faith
Perhaps due to the recent public pressure the Comprehensive Soldier Fitness department of the Army has been facing, they have opened a Virtual Spiritual Fitness Center. You should remember that their controversial Soldier Fitness Tracker is mandatory for all Soldiers, and was not available to the public. The new Virtual Spiritual Fitness Center is very …
Jan 28 2011
Humanist Hour interview with ‘foxhole atheist’ Justin Griffith
The American Humanist Association’s monthly podcast, the Humanist Hour, interviewed me about Rock Beyond Belief, Spiritual Fitness, and the Soldier Fitness Tracker. Jes Constantine has been running the show for many years, and is now joined by Todd Stiefel, of the Stiefel Freethought Foundation as co-host. We had a great time, and the masterful editing …
Jan 22 2011
US Military Defines Spirituality…?
You might have guessed that 99.9% of references are explicitly religious. Good guess! There seems to be a sudden rush to walk this back in the light of all the exposure the Army’s mandatory Spiritual Fitness testing is getting. The mental gymnastics required to divorce their concept of Spiritual Fitness from Religion illustrate exactly why …
Jan 20 2011
Yahweh or the Highway: Mandatory Army Spiritual Fitness
I’m sure that most readers are aware of the aspects of Spiritual Fitness that Rock Beyond Belief has taken issue with. Notably, the Billy Graham Evangelical Association’s proselytism on a grand scale, and the mandatory Soldier Fitness Tracker that foxhole atheists fail because they are spiritually unfit. But the powers that be always argue that …
Jan 18 2011
Spiritually Unfit Soldiers FORCED to see Chaplains, to get “born again”
I just received this chilling letter from a Soldier who recently took the mandatory Soldier Fitness Tracker test, shared to me with permission, from the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF). The name has been withheld out of fear, but I’m assured that this matter is being worked very hard. [note: emphasis mine, and I broke it …
Jan 14 2011
MSNBC and NPR cover mandatory Soldier Fitness Tracker tests for Spiritual Fitness / Religion
Last Week, Keith Olberman of MSNBC, contacted me for an interview regarding the Soldier Fitness Tracker controversy. This kind of national visibility is exactly what this test for religion needs. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to be cleared by my Public Affairs Office (PAO) in time for the intense time constraints of their production deadline. However, …
Jan 05 2011
Smoking Gun proves Mandatory Army Spiritual Fitness Test is Religious Test, Unconstitutional
My (civilian) wife just took the controversial Global Assessment Tool / Soldier Fitness Tracker survey a few days ago, and she, like myself and hundreds of other foxhole atheists, failed the Spiritual Fitness section based on her honest answers. My wife did screen captures of all of it and I think you should see some things that got by …
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Free Thought | Free Festival
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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