Tag Archive: Veterans

May 03 2012

Atheist veteran investigated by police for NOT littering

Click to embiggen - Steven Hewett and Justin Griffith

After serving in Afghanistan Steven Hewett came home to King, N.C. They don’t ‘take kindly’ to atheist folks ’round these parts. Their public Veterans Memorial had a Christian flag flying over it, and when Steven complained… the whole town attempted to chase him out of town. This is the man that an entire city held …

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Apr 18 2012

The atheist Vietnam veteran’s reply

Yesterday, I posted about the Christian troll who said that atheists all die in foxholes – but god protects Christians from death. Bart Centre, author of The Atheist Camel replied: Good reply Justin. When I was in Nam I saw a lot of Christians die. One guy was so busy praying during an assault on our …

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Apr 17 2012

Facebook super-fail: only Christians survive in a foxhole

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Larry M. says I’m a ‘dummy’ that’s going to get ‘wacked’ (sic) in a foxhole because… I’m not a Christian. He’s also grateful that he doesn’t have to be the guy who carries my body back to the FOB. Atheists are just too damned heavy! At least he accepts that there are indeed atheists in …

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Mar 27 2012

Fort Bragg wont let us feed homeless vets at the atheist festival

JE 3-211 membership drives

I fought very hard for this to happen at the festival this weekend. We went back and forth for several months. The ‘pro-starvation’ camp has prevailed. The idea was simple. Our festival is already paid for, via a generous donation from the Stiefel Freethought Foundation (directly deposited into our accounts at American Atheists). So here …

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Nov 11 2011

Veterans Day post: daughter remembers MSgt. Jack Edward Keeney

Jack Keeney

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 …

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