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2018-07-22 Olde Tyme Religion

Air Force Base Defends Replacing Bible with Generic "Book of Faith"

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Posted by Skidmark 2018-07-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 These people are front line to implementing the eschaton. The Bible should be required reading.

Posted by M. Murcek 2018-07-22 00:51|| 2018-07-22 00:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Generic "Book of Faith"

Which just happens to be the Quran?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-07-22 02:30|| 2018-07-22 02:30|| Front Page Top

#3 Generic "Book of Faith"
The Germans started doing that in the 30's... The Communist Party in Mainland China started requiring that the Christian denomination's dogmas had to pass their scrutiny...

Posted by magpie 2018-07-22 03:33|| 2018-07-22 03:33|| Front Page Top

#4 And if inoffensiveness for its own sake isn't enough, for ~~God's~~ ~~Heaven's~~ ~~Pete's~~ ~~goodness~~ something's sake, heed the wisdom of Hollywood...

Your typical scriptwriter bristles
At "shalt nots" and saints and epistles,
Ergo, Armageddon
Is where we are headin'
When missileers mingle with missals.

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2018-07-22 04:09|| 2018-07-22 04:09|| Front Page Top

#5 I think I've seen of this before.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-07-22 06:33|| 2018-07-22 06:33|| Front Page Top

#6 Frightening.

as many as 36 unnamed clients at the Air Force base in Wyoming have complained

the Mighty Ninety operates Minuteman III (LGM-30G) ICBMs on full alert 24-hours a day, 365 days a year

Posted by Skidmark 2018-07-22 07:19|| 2018-07-22 07:19|| Front Page Top

#7 How about letting airmen choose their own book? Stay the hell out of things are not a problem and that shouldn't be your concern. Get on with war-fighting preparedness.

Posted by JohnQC 2018-07-22 09:29|| 2018-07-22 09:29|| Front Page Top

#8 I don't really have any strong patriotic feelings towards $GENERIC_COUNTRY.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2018-07-22 09:37|| 2018-07-22 09:37|| Front Page Top

#9 I mean, think for a second... would you die for $GENERIC_SOCIAL_JUSTICE_COUNTRY?

Now... what about... Rodina?

Rodina... that's like... Mom, and Apple Pie... or at least borscht...

Come the revolution, we will all have... borscht. Oh well.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2018-07-22 09:46|| 2018-07-22 09:46|| Front Page Top

#10 Only surprise is that it wasn't replaced with the profit Marx's Das Kapital.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-07-22 09:46|| 2018-07-22 09:46|| Front Page Top

#11 I don't understand this all or none mentality, the Bible should have been left with the "generic" book, That way people would have a choice. Sounds more like "do as we say or your pathetic career becomes history".

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2018-07-22 10:34|| 2018-07-22 10:34|| Front Page Top

#12 Look above the Colonel in her chain one and two up to find the favor she hopes this receives. Methinks the Colonel has stars in her eyes and wants nothing, nothing, to reflect badly on her next OER's, so religious controversy requires immediate solution, even is it means insulting the other 90% of the command!

Posted by NoMoreBS 2018-07-22 14:25|| 2018-07-22 14:25|| Front Page Top

#13 "her." Why am I not surprised?

Posted by Tom 2018-07-22 15:08|| 2018-07-22 15:08|| Front Page Top

#14 "Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care what I say, I ask, if it matters, that you be forgiven for anything you may have done or failed to do which requires forgiveness. Conversely, if not forgiveness but something else may be required to insure any possible benefit for which you may be eligible after the destruction of your body, I ask that this, whatever it may be, be granted or withheld, as the case may be, in such a manner as to insure your receiving said benefit. I ask this in my capacity as your elected intermediary between yourself and that which may not be yourself, but which may have an interest in the matter of your receiving as much as it is possible for you to receive of this thing, and which may in some way be influenced by this ceremony. Amen."
Possibly Proper Prayer. Creatures of Light and Darkness by Roger Zelazny

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