Druids and Wiccans at the U.S. Air Force Academy

[Tyler Durden]

http://www.usafa.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123187157

DISCUSS!

[tombogan03884]

 1st Amendment, Freedom of worship, Both groups recognize a Supreme Creator, they simply worship through an appreciation of the natural world, instead of closing themselves off from the Creators works in a building.
And dispite what some would have you believe they are NOT all a bunch of pacifist queers, many of the fiercest warriors in history have been nature worshipers such as Attila and Geronimo

[JdePietro]

I applaud there tollerance for all religion, I just wish more people had the same attitude. As a druid myself I wish I had access to such facilities in my own community.

[GUNS-R-US]

I've actually been to that spot in the early nineties. A friend of mine was a Priest their while I was going through Tech school at Lowry AFB just up the road in Denver. That hill top is just behind the house he lived in. That's a beautiful spot to worship regardless of your religious orientation. Heck just about anywhere you go at the Academy is going to be beautiful! Their was a call out a couple of months ago for enlisted instructor positions at the Academy wish I meet the requirements I'd love to live their!!!

[Pathfinder]

1st Amendment, Freedom of worship, Both groups recognize a Supreme Creator, they simply worship through an appreciation of the natural world, instead of closing themselves off from the Creators works in a building.
And dispite what some would have you believe they are NOT all a bunch of pacifist queers, many of the fiercest warriors in history have been nature worshipers such as Attila and Geronimo

That was then. And you forgot the Celts and Germans who gave the Greeks and Romans such nightmares.

Dollars to donuts, though, these modern types are going to be mostly a bunch of "pacifist queers", as you so quaintly put it!  

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[Tyler Durden]

Tombogan wrote:

....fiercest warriors in....

Reading that part makes me giggle.   

We are talking about the Air Force here, and my alma mater.  This is just my opinion....but the percentage of warriors in the Air Force is really, really small.  And even smaller from the Air Force Academy.  (and before you get your dander all the way up, GUNS-R-US, I am referring to the CCT's, the PJ's, the TACP's and the fighter/bomber/attack pilots and those aircrews. And maybe some of the SP's...err...SF's...aka sky cops...maybe some HAMMER ACE people if they're still around and these Raven guys.  Still a really, really small percentage of the whole Air Force.)

switching gears here a bunch.... let me ask you all this...

The Zoo has a "student" population of about 4,000.  Just by the law of averages, some of them are going to be muslim.

A few years back at the University of Michigan, the bathrooms there had to be retrofitted with foot baths for the muslim students who wash their feet before they pray.

Would you all be for footing the US taxpayer bill to get the bathrooms retrofitted with footbaths at the Air Force Academy (then West Point and Annapolis)?

[GUNS-R-US]

We are talking about the Air Force here, and my alma mater.  This is just my opinion....but the percentage of warriors in the Air Force is really, really small.  And even smaller from the Air Force Academy.  (and before you get your dander all the way up, GUNS-R-US, I am referring to the CCT's, the PJ's, the TACP's and the fighter/bomber/attack pilots and those aircrews. And maybe some of the SP's...err...SF's...aka sky cops...maybe some HAMMER ACE people if they're still around and these Raven guys.  Still a really, really small percentage of the whole Air Force.)

I won't knock what you said here. The majority of the AF is not in the Warrior career fields. We are mostly logistics support for the Warriors. If I could roll the clock back 20 years I'd of gone in to the Marines!

[tombogan03884]

Tyler posted,
"Reading that part makes me giggle.   Grin

We are talking about the Air Force here, and my alma mater.  This is just my opinion....but the percentage of warriors in the Air Force is really, really small."

I wasn't going to go there      Besides, sometimes it IS the thought that counts  

From Tylers post,
"Would you all be for footing the US taxpayer bill to get the bathrooms retrofitted with footbaths at the Air Force Academy"

2 things, first, they are currently our enemies, so NO.
Second, since there is no Mosque there is no reason for them to take their shoes off, so their feet should already be relatively clean, unless of course they are just naturally dirty people, so no need to wash their feet before prayer except to be difficult so again no.
Third, I have been prejudiced against Muslims since 1979, and more so since Oct. of 82 so again f-ck them.

[Solus]

A few years back at the University of Michigan, the bathrooms there had to be retrofitted with foot baths for the muslim students who wash their feet before they pray.

When I was in the service everyone managed to wash their feet without special foot baths.

I know this is off the wall, I would like to propose Muslims in our military simply wash their feet in the facilities provided.

[GUNS-R-US]

When I was in the service everyone managed to wash their feet without special foot baths.

I know this is off the wall, I would like to propose Muslims in our military simply wash their feet in the facilities provided.

In the AF we call them showers!