Not So Polite Dinner Conversation – the religious stupidity is coming fast and furious

From the Freedom From Religion Foundation:
“The Freedom From Religion Foundation is urging the Defense Health Agency, the Department of Defense and staff at Walter Reed Hospital to end coercive religious programming and activities. 

A Walter Reed employee informed FFRF that during the week of March 17, an email went out to all Walter Reed Hospital staff inviting them to a recurring “Soul Care Bible Study.” The program was billed as “a spiritual readiness program that supports the Defense Health Agency Director’s spiritual pillar of readiness.” The invitation asserted that the “Department of Defense recognizes that Spiritual Fitness is an essential area that requires some training and development for DoD personnel to be healthy, fit and resilient.” The invitation describes “Spiritual Fitness” as “one of the major components of the Total Force Fitness Framework, first established by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.” FFRF learned that chaplains would encourage staff members to wash their hands with Holy Water. ” – “FFRF opposes DoD’s coercive bible study classes at Walter Reed Hospital” (I’m asking for more info on the holy water nonsense)

Unsurprisingly, these things are never just “invitations”. When the leadership trots out their religion, then people are expected to attend since the leadership is deluded into thinking that good equals their religion.

The “total fitness framework” has this nonsense in it “Spiritual fitness: Sense of identity and belonging, awareness of meaning and purpose, embracing service core values, and ability to cope”
which simply means there is an “us” and “them” with the nonsense of supposed “core values” and “identity and belonging” when it comes to religion. This garbage has no place in the government or the military.

One thought on “Not So Polite Dinner Conversation – the religious stupidity is coming fast and furious

  1. This is something that needs to be stopped dead in its tracks and that can only happen when people – average people of all stripes and backgrounds – push back, hard. We have a Constitutionally guaranteed separation between our legal system of laws and rights and any religion or spiritual enmeshment between the two. I believe this will pan out in the end; partially because there are so many versions of Christianity in the US (approx. 12,000 give or take), but there are also countless other religions practiced here which will put any government-favored religion in a highly contestable role an I don’t see that prevailing.

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