High ranking Chaplain leaves out ‘so help me god’


The Chaplain respectfully leaves off “so help me god” for the deployed atheist soldier’s re-enlistment ceremony.

Chaplain (Colonel) Strohm is overseeing Sergeant Justin Griffith’s re-enlistment ceremony. The Chaplain is a devout Christian with decades of active-duty service.

Sergeant Griffith is the Military Director for American Atheists, and is also spear-heading the groundbreaking atheist-themed festival ‘Rock Beyond Belief’ featuring Richard Dawkins at Fort Bragg, NC in 2012.

America’s Problem with Sex Education

[T]he Obama administration and Congress in 2010 eliminated two thirds of federal funding for abstinence-only-until-marriage education, and, in a historic shift, allocated close to $190m for comprehensive sex education. . . [The Republican presidential candidates] . . . are stalwart critics of science-based and medically accurate sex education, and frequently demonstrate that they never received it. . . The South, beacon of Christian virtue, has, according to the [Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States], the highest concentration of abstinence-only education and also the riskiest teen sexual behavior.
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