Mikey Weinstein enraged by evangelical atheists

[rug]

Published: March 19, 2014, 12:10 pm, by Tom Roeder

It’s no surprise to get a phone call from a fired-up Mikey Weinstein, founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation and a frequent flyer when it comes to criticizing the Air Force Academy over religious issues.

But, on Wednesday, Weinstein broke new ground — he’s mad at evangelical atheism in a hallway of the academy’s Fairchild Hall.

“It’s Ask an Atheist Day,” Weinstein said as he built up to the machine-gun delivery deriding commanders including Lt. Gen. Michelle Johnson for fostering a climate of religious intolerance.

“What if this was ask a Muslim Day or ask an Evangelical Christan Day?” Weinstein said.

http://blogs.gazette.com/highground/2014/03/19/mikey-weinstein-enraged-by-evangelical-athiests/

[cbayer]

1. You got to give him points for consistency,

which makes him much more legitimate, imo.

[rug]

6. Absolutely. That makes it vitually a pure First Amendment stance.

[Brettongarcia]

2. Yeah, but thanks to military Chaplins, every day already is "ask a preacher" day on military bases

Seemingly against Constitutional prohibitions on official religion, for centuries military bases have allowed chaplins - usually Protestant ministers, and Catholic priests - a more or less permanent place on military bases. And even give them a nominal military rank and uniform.

[cbayer]

3. This man leads a very vocal and effective organization that has had

a good number of victories.

I think he wants to make sure he is consistent and that's a very good thing, imo.

[Brettongarcia]

4. He's not consistent, because he forgot existing key facts, inequalities.

It WOULD be good if the presentation of Evangelicals and Atheists WAS equal, and consistent. But due to the permanent and funded presence of Christianity on military bases, the presentation of Christianity (including Evangelicalism) dwarfs the presentation of Atheism; by a thousand to one.

Once again the perpetrator is blaming the victim.

[cbayer]

5. He has successfully fought against the inequality and is doing a great job.

That is precisely why he is consistent.

The perpetrator is not blaming the victim. The effective activist is taking a position that no one should be able to do this when it comes to matters of religion.

[MellowDem]

7. Considering the ignorance people have of atheism...

it would be a good idea to have a world religions class that addressed the major belief systems and address what an atheist is, in high school preferably. Would be helpful for members of other minority belief systems as well. That way people don't have to have "ask a" days to address misconceptions and prejudice, and which can be used to push an agenda as well and so won't be allowed in the military.