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Religious leaders denounce Spiritual Fitness Test (about time!)

The Pasadena Sun has a great collection of various religious leaders’ thoughts on the mandatory Spiritual Fitness testing and training in the US Military. Rev. Skip Lindeman – United Church of Christ: … Think about it: A guy takes the test and gets all A-grades on spirituality, and then says, “Gimme a gun so I [...]

Foxhole atheist Justin Griffith’s first speech

Last year I was invited to speak at several national conferences, but could not attend a single one because I was deployed. I gave this speech in Fort Lauderdale Florida last month, at the FLASH / American Atheists regional meetup. It was my first official public speaking engagement. I had to follow a pretty awesome talk [...]

Transcript of Army training reveals 83 instances of bypassing US Constitution

Secular Soldier

SGT Dustin Chalker, my friend and fellow foxhole atheist, wrote to me with exact figures from the mandatory Spiritual Fitness remedial training. Keep in mind, when reporters and lawyers are around – Spiritual Fitness is only about ‘team spirit’ and ‘human spirit’. They emphatically declare that it has nothing to do with religion (clearly an [...]

U.S. Army forces Soldiers to learn Wiccan rituals, Christians need to fight back!

Sergeant Poe’s Law Firm has been alerted. “Here is undeniable pictorial evidence that the Army is forcing me to learn Wiccan rituals.” Sergeant Poe Here is the link to the Virtual Spiritual Fitness Center… act quickly before the new world order deletes the page. They even control Google Cache! Christians, are you thinking to yourself, [...]

Army’s insane Virtual Spiritual Fitness Center gets remade by atheists

Jason Torpy, president of MAAF, sent out a request for some visibility on his remake of the Army’s insane Virtual Spiritual Fitness Center. I thought that was a pretty fun idea. I remember telling Jason in late March about the ridiculous website. We both kept finding more and more crazy stuff. Remember, this is brought to you by the same department that [...]

Four dimensions and a tree

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. [...]

Because these darned American Flags wont shred themselves

Army's Spiritual Fitness = Spiritual Resilience

Quick start a Prayer Circle and ask for big-ass scissors! I knew you could do it! [Army's controversial Spiritual Fitness guys deliver an epic power point slide that simply must be seen]

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 [...]