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“While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.” –George Washington (1778)
AFA: ‘God’ Already Gone
by Mark Alexander
Getting it only half right, Fox News reports that the Air Force Academy is contemplating the removal of “so help me God” from its Cadet Honor Oath. However, on the facing page in Contrails, the Cadet handbook, “so help me God” has already been removed from the Cadet and Officer oaths. Click to View
As I first reported last May in “The DoD’s Frontal Assault on Faith,” up until 2012, the Cadet Contrails handbook contained the words “so help me God” after the Cadet and Officer oaths, but those words were removed from the Class of 2016 handbooks. When I inquired with the AFA’s Public Affairs Office as to who removed “so help me God” in 2012 and why, the PAO dodged the question and tersely responded that I could file a “Freedom of Information Act” request. In other words: “Take a hike.”
While Obama’s top military appointees at the AFA are claiming its review of “so help me God” in the Honor Oath is the result of a challenge by ultra-leftist Mikey Weinstein’s so-called “Military Religious Freedom Foundation” (MRFF), Weinstein is little more than an atheist proxy for the Obama administration – a surrogate doing the bidding of the most faith-intolerant regime in the history of our Republic. (Of course, if any military officer suggested this was their CINC’s agenda, they would be civilians the next day.)
The MRFF is dedicated to freedom from religion, not freedom of religion. In 2011, Weinstein, an AFA graduate (‘77), demanded and received an apology from the AFA for its cadet support of “Operation Christmas Child,” which assembles and fills millions of shoe boxes with toys, school supplies and other gifts for impoverished children in 130 countries! Weinstein objected because OCC places a Christian tract in those boxes.
Under the pretense of “religious tolerance,” Barack Hussein Obama’s administration has been quietly advancing his mandate to remove any expression or manifestation of faith, particularly Christianity, from government forums – first and foremost, the U.S. military. His civilian “leaders” at DoD have ramped up that eradication, even threatening UCMJ charges against any military personnel whose expression of faith might be interpreted as “proselytizing.”
My colleague, Lt. Gen. (Ret.) William “Jerry” Boykin, notes, “The very troops who defend our religious freedom are at risk of having their own taken away. The worst thing we can do is stop soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines, especially for the chaplains, from the free exercise of their faith.”
Notably, if the AFA folds under pressure from Weinstein, the other Service Academies will surely follow.
The Left is constantly endeavoring to replace Rule of Law with the rule of men, because the former is predicated on the principle of Liberty “endowed by our Creator,” Obama’s administrators constantly look for ways to undermine Rule of Law by driving wedges between our Liberty and itsfoundational endowment.
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