Comments on: Nature Worship at the Air Force Academy http://aheathensday.com/2009/12/nature-worship-at-the-air-force-academy.html The Life and Thoughts of a Modern Day American Heathen Mon, 07 May 2012 01:49:50 -0400 hourly 1 By: Hrafnkell http://aheathensday.com/2009/12/nature-worship-at-the-air-force-academy.html#comment-1908 Hrafnkell Sat, 19 Dec 2009 11:16:42 +0000 http://aheathensday.com/?p=1233#comment-1908 Baby steps indeed. I think that's all we can expect for now. Considering any non-Christian was an outcast there four years ago, the "even" isn't too bad. But it's a shame when personal feelings cloud the speech of a reporter. Honest, unbiased reporting, if it ever existed, is a thing of the past. That link was hilarious, Makarios, except that it's 6 am and I was barely awake and my sound was turned up to max...LOL Baby steps indeed. I think that’s all we can expect for now. Considering any non-Christian was an outcast there four years ago, the “even” isn’t too bad. But it’s a shame when personal feelings cloud the speech of a reporter. Honest, unbiased reporting, if it ever existed, is a thing of the past. That link was hilarious, Makarios, except that it’s 6 am and I was barely awake and my sound was turned up to max…LOL

]]> By: Makarios http://aheathensday.com/2009/12/nature-worship-at-the-air-force-academy.html#comment-1907 Makarios Sat, 19 Dec 2009 09:31:01 +0000 http://aheathensday.com/?p=1233#comment-1907 Two cheers to the Academy for cleaning up its act and starting to adhere to the Constitution that the officers are sworn to protect and defend. One cheer deducted for the fact that they did so only when forced to do so by threatened and actual litigation, and by bad publicity. I do, however, have a bone to pick with the author of the AP article. A couple of bones, actually. What's with the sneer quotes around the words <i>Earth-centered</i> in the third paragraph? And what about the word <i>even</i> in the same sentence? As if nonbelievers and the followers of earth-centered religions are so far out in left field that meeting their needs shows how mind-blowingly tolerant the Academy is being. Oh, well, baby steps. . . . And as for Focus on the Family, I'd direct them to this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX3UqY8KZpU Two cheers to the Academy for cleaning up its act and starting to adhere to the Constitution that the officers are sworn to protect and defend. One cheer deducted for the fact that they did so only when forced to do so by threatened and actual litigation, and by bad publicity.

I do, however, have a bone to pick with the author of the AP article. A couple of bones, actually. What’s with the sneer quotes around the words Earth-centered in the third paragraph? And what about the word even in the same sentence? As if nonbelievers and the followers of earth-centered religions are so far out in left field that meeting their needs shows how mind-blowingly tolerant the Academy is being. Oh, well, baby steps. . . .

And as for Focus on the Family, I’d direct them to this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX3UqY8KZpU

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