RE: ...(Atheistic irony)
May 1, 2011 at 3:51 pm
(This post was last modified: May 1, 2011 at 4:02 pm by cGodfrey.)
There's certainly no reason an Atheist wouldn't want to evaluate metaphysics and in that sense a chaplain would be a good thing. What a thought provoking arguement you have there. One can never have too many advisors. I see your point for the chaplaincy adopting atheism. Thanks for that.
If anyone has counterpoints to keep this discuss going, feel free. Fr0d0 hooked me up with some good stuff, such complexity in 2 sentences, I like it.
I do. The thing that sparked this soldier's interest was a evangelical concert funded by the military installation he is from. (I'm trying to stay cryptic about it, although you can find it with a simple google search.) Anyhow, he asked the same people that funded the concert if he could put on an Atheist concert, he had Richard Dawkins lined up to come speak, and so on the story goes. Well, they denied him the funding and said that people wouldn't want to go to an Atheist concert and they wouldn't get the result they desired for their funding. Had Atheism been a part of the chaplaincy it would have worked and we wouldn't be having this conversation.
To me it sounded like a ton of shit stirring for little result.
So without the backing from the chaplain we aren't allowed to have any kind of "religious" groups/meetings on base. For now his group meets off the installation.
If anyone has counterpoints to keep this discuss going, feel free. Fr0d0 hooked me up with some good stuff, such complexity in 2 sentences, I like it.
(May 1, 2011 at 3:48 pm)Minimalist Wrote: You know, you have to be a "chaplain" to be recognized as a religious group for some specific reason?
I do. The thing that sparked this soldier's interest was a evangelical concert funded by the military installation he is from. (I'm trying to stay cryptic about it, although you can find it with a simple google search.) Anyhow, he asked the same people that funded the concert if he could put on an Atheist concert, he had Richard Dawkins lined up to come speak, and so on the story goes. Well, they denied him the funding and said that people wouldn't want to go to an Atheist concert and they wouldn't get the result they desired for their funding. Had Atheism been a part of the chaplaincy it would have worked and we wouldn't be having this conversation.
To me it sounded like a ton of shit stirring for little result.
So without the backing from the chaplain we aren't allowed to have any kind of "religious" groups/meetings on base. For now his group meets off the installation.
