Air Force Pulls Christian-Themed Ethics Training After TruthOut Published Report

[ProfessionalLeftist]

I posted about this program a day or so ago...http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1589841

It seems that since TruthOut reported on it, it's been pulled:

The Air Force, in response to a report published by Truthout earlier this week, has pulled a Christian-themed training session that used a quote from an ex-Nazi SS officer and numerous passages from the New and Old Testament to teach missile officers about the morals and ethics of launching nuclear weapons.

The Nuclear Ethics and Nuclear Warfare training session "has been taken out of the curriculum and is being reviewed," said David Smith, chief of public affairs of Air Education and Training Command at Randolph Air Force Base in Texas. "The commander reviewed it and decided we needed to have a good hard look at it and make sure it reflected views of modern society."

Smith said the ethics training has been in place for "20-plus years" and the decision to remove it was made on Wednesday after Truthout's report was published. He added that it will now be "given thorough scrutiny" and "folks will be appointed to look at what we have and determine its utility and if they think its useful to continue having an ethics course they will develop a new course."

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http://www.truth-out.org/air-force-pulls-christian-themed-ethics-training-missile-officers/1311972789

[wtmusic]

1. If you have to be taught the "morals and ethics of launching nuclear weapons"

you'll never understand anyway.

[BanzaiBonnie]

2. Gawwwwwwwwwwww

[Swede]

3. You can't have a fight in the war room!

[LiberalFighter]

4. Wasn't there an issue about something like this during Bush 43?

[CoffeeCat]

5. Using the Bible to...

...rationalize murdering people with nuclear weapons?

The Bible is often used to justify atrocities, and frankly--I'm disgusted with
the amount of evil it would take to do such a thing.

[provis99]

6. they quoted Werner "Dr. Strangelove" von Braun?

good grief.

But quoting St.Augustine's laws of just war is ok. Except that I think St. Augustine would have called every war America has fought an unjust one, except World War 2, so maybe he's really not a good authority.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

7. I guess they've been teaching "Nuclear Ethics and Nuclear Warfare" for years but..

...using the Bible to justify it and quotes from Nazis is particularly disturbing, IMO.

"Nuclear ethics" - now there's a misnomer. The irony...

[JBoy]

8. When Would Jesus Launch?

[Bluebear]

9. +