Major General Lord, I've served in the United States Navy and I left in disgust after six years because I saw the military is being subverted by evangelical Christians at every level.
My question to you is this: How does the US Air Force expect to recruit intelligent, free-thinking computer security experts into an organization that has been thoroughly corrupted by religious fanatics bent on bringing about the apocalypse?
Mikey Weinstein describes my concern in this quote:
"Every single time radicalized Christianity has engaged the machinery of the state and the armed forces, we have ended up not with puddles and little streams, but with oceans and oceans of blood," he says. "I'm not just talking about the Holocaust or the Inquisition or the four Crusades, I'm not just talking about the Black Plague; it's the transition from Plan A to Plan B.
"In Plan A, evangelical Christians with a smile on their face will ask you to please, please, please accept their biblical worldview of Jesus. The problem with that is, inevitably, Plan A morphs into Plan B. They stop asking so nicely, and then you have the Holocaust, the pogroms, the Inquisition
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-- 1099-07-15 -- never forget