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real_democrat

May 5 2005, 12:39 PM

Air Force to Probe Religious Climate at Colorado Academy

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The report said that during basic training, cadets who declined to go to chapel after dinner were organized into a "Heathen Flight" and marched back to their dormitories. It said the Air Force's "Chaplain of the Year" urged cadets to proselytize among their classmates or "burn in the fires of hell"; that mandatory cadet meetings often began with explicitly Christian prayers; and that numerous faculty members introduced themselves to their classes as born-again Christians and encouraged students to become born again during the term.

Amazing this stuff gets ignored.

piccadilly

May 5 2005, 03:22 PM

My sister taught a few years there in the nineties. The academy was already heavily involved in ideological screening and political supremist indoctrination. It seems like today it's not enough to be of the correct political alignment anymore, but also of the same religious alignment.

All pilots now gotta have the same holy feel good peace of mind when they drop their bombs.

The indoctrination paradigm has been shifted from:

"It has to be done for the greatness of America and the free world"

to

"It's the right thing to do, it's God's will"

Looks like the new generation of US pilots will be of the fundamentalist kind.

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