Fuck Off, Xtian Soldiers

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

Most Australians are pretty irreverent. We DID have a Catholic chaplain who seemed mildly religious. There was also a strange evangelical who ran some kind of centre and gave out free instant coffee and stale doughnuts.

When filling in the details for my dog tag,I noticed there was no category for 'atheist'. Some of the most important rules fora grunt are:"Keep yer bloody head down (literally and metaphorically),never volunteer for anything and if you fuck up just say you didn't understand the order.They will almost always believe you.

So I put 'Roman Catholic' and no one ever bothered me,or made me go to church.

The US air force sounds like Dr Strangelove. A throwback to the C19th concept of 'muscular Christianity'. Of course that was often a cover for sado-masochistic tendencies and repressed homosexuality.

Muscular Christianity is a term for a movement during the Victorian era which stressed the need for energetic Christian activism in combination with an ideal of vigorous masculinity. It was most associated with the English writers Charles Kingsley and Thomas Hughes, though the name was bestowed by others.

Kingsley and Hughes promoted physical strength and health (at least for men) as well as an active pursuit of Christian ideals in personal life and politics.

The term has also been applied to later movements that combine physical and Christian spiritual development.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscular_Christianity