(03-25-2018 02:59 AM)JMUDunk Wrote:  

(03-24-2018 09:33 AM)Ohio Poly Wrote:  US Navy Says No to Atheist Chaplains; Members of Congress 'Relieved' by Decision

https://www.christianpost.com/news/us-na...on-221962/

Uhhhhh,

What’s an “atheist chaplain”? Wouldn’t that be like the guy down the block?

Funny, and alarming at the same time.

It's kind of like Rachel Dolezal leading a chapter of the NAACP, eh?

(03-24-2018 03:59 PM)gdunn Wrote:  

(03-24-2018 03:25 PM)Ohio Poly Wrote:  Why does a religious person need a chaplain? Why does someone apply to be a chaplain in the U.S. Navy?

To minister, pray, and help be a guiding light to those who are religious.

Why do atheist who don't believe in a higher being need someone to do those things for them?

LMGTFY:

https://www.google.com/search?q=secular+...20&bih=949

(03-25-2018 01:21 PM)Ohio Poly Wrote:  

(03-24-2018 03:59 PM)gdunn Wrote:  

(03-24-2018 03:25 PM)Ohio Poly Wrote:  Why does a religious person need a chaplain? Why does someone apply to be a chaplain in the U.S. Navy?

To minister, pray, and help be a guiding light to those who are religious.

Why do atheist who don't believe in a higher being need someone to do those things for them?

LMGTFY:

https://www.google.com/search?q=secular+...20&bih=949

So you can't answer or stand on your own two feet. Gotcha.

(03-24-2018 09:52 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  Atheism isn’t a religion.

It’s an ideology. No other ideology has a chaplain.

It's a worldview, just like theism. If you want to argue our tax dollars shouldn't be going to support any of them, I might agree with you. Otherwise, the government shouldn't be establishing a preference of any worldview over another.

(03-25-2018 08:24 PM)Ohio Poly Wrote:  

(03-24-2018 09:52 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  Atheism isn’t a religion.

It’s an ideology. No other ideology has a chaplain.

It's a worldview, just like theism. If you want to argue our tax dollars shouldn't be going to support any of them, I might agree with you. Otherwise, the government shouldn't be establishing a preference of any worldview over another.

That’s just a term you pulled out of thin air.

Atheism is not a sincerely held religious belief, which is what a recognized religion is. It’s the sincere belief in nothing—in a literal sense. If it is anything it is an ideology—which is generous. In that way it’s more like the religion that says you must eat pizza at every meal. You’re welcome to practice it but you aren’t entitled to recognition equal to those who hold a sincere belief, that’s insulting.

Humanism may be a sincere religious belief but humanism and atheism are not interchangeable.

I am a humanist.

The government is free to discriminate between world views, whatever that may mean. It does so on a daily basis and you most likely agree with it doing so 90% of the time without realizing it.

Those blue spots are cancer people. This patient is close to terminal: