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cornermouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 04:59 PM
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It may not be intolerance, but it sure is harrassment
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050622/us_nm/religion_usa_airforce_dc

Report faults U.S. Air Force Academy on religion

"There was a lack of awareness on the part of some faculty and staff, and perhaps cadets in positions of authority, as to what constitutes appropriate expressions of faith, particularly in this setting: in superior-subordinate relationships in a government institution," Air Force Lt. Gen. Roger Brady, who headed the report, told a
Pentagon briefing....

...A team from Yale Divinity School said in April it found evangelical Christian proselytizing commonplace at the academy, which has about 4,400 students, and cited "stridently evangelical themes" by staff. The team described a campus chaplain telling cadets they would "burn in the fires of hell" if they were not born-again Christians.

The Air Force report said that it found "the root of this problem is not overt religious discrimination." Brady said problems were neither pervasive nor institutionalized, and that faculty and staff who acted inappropriately did not do so with malice.
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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 05:01 PM
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1. god gave me free will
i'm so tired of so-called christians trying to take that away from us.

jesus didn't force his beliefs down anyone's throat, or force anyone to listen, yet so-called christians do it all the time... how is that being christ-like?
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