Soldiers Forced to See Chaplain After Failing Army's Spiritual Fitness Test

[Joanne98]

After failing a recently implemented mandatory Army-wide "Spiritual Fitness" test, soldiers are given the following message on their computer screens:


"Spiritual fitness is an area of possible difficulty for you. You may lack a sense of meaning and purpose in your life. At times, it is hard for you to make sense of what is happening to you and others around you. You may not feel connected to something larger than yourself. You may question your beliefs, principles, and values. Nevertheless, who you are and what you do matter. There are things to do to provide more meaning and purpose in your life. Improving your spiritual fitness should be an important goal. Change is possible, and the relevant self-development training modules will be helpful. If you need further help, please do not hesitate to seek out help from the people you care about and trust -- strong people always do. Be patient in your development as it will take time to improve in this area. Still, persistence is key and you will improve here if you make this area a priority."


This mandatory online test, called the Global Assessment Tool (GAT), is part of the Army's Comprehensive Soldier Fitness (CSF) program, a program that puts spiritual fitness on par with physical and mental fitness.

Upon flunking the "Spiritual Fitness" section of the GAT, and receiving the above message telling them that "Change is possible" and that "you will improve here if you make this area a priority," the spiritually deficient soldiers are directed to training modules to correct this problem with their "fitness."

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2011/1/19/114940/359/Front_Page/Soldiers_Forced_to_See_Chaplain_After_Failing_Army_s_Spiritual_Fitness_Test

[old mark]

1. K&R-nt

[dipsydoodle]

2. Charlie Chaplain presumably

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[Voice for Peace]

3. ahahaha I had the same thought

first glance... I thought they were being required to watch Charlie Chaplin movies

[bemildred]

4. Ah, compulsory "faith", how nice.

An old idea come back for another try.

[peace13]

5. The irony is that they want Christian soldiers and then they give them murderous missions.

Our wars have civilian casualties, dead children, raped women. I have to ask myself how being a Christian will help the soldier. It must be the simple act of forgiveness that the sarge hands out after the mission.

[msongs]

6. the CIC claims to be a christian yet has no problem killing civilians for profit nt

[peace13]

7. Yup! He inherited a real blood bath and now..

it looks like we will be in perpetual war until the bank breaks permanently. That is the only way this war business is going to stop. When the corps can no longer get fat on it. Blame Obama if it makes you feel better. He has broad shoulders. It doesn't mean that the soldiers should have the bible shoved up their *sses!

[vssmith]

8. Atheists need not apply

[driver8]

9. What a crock of shit.

This makes me sick to my stomach. The nerve of these fucking people...

[snagglepuss]

10. Exactly how I feel reading this. It is utterly disgusting.

:mad:

[driver8]

11. Good thing these soldiers are defending the Constitution...guess they decided to ignore

the First Amendment.

[MedicalAdmin]

12. In the army the first amendment reads as follows.

1. Freedom to supress.

[qb]

13. It should be replaced with the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory to identify sociopaths.

[hootinholler]

14. Let me introduce you to LtCol Ron Huggler

Well, not personally, but here is a paper of his.

I'm not sure what the exact context in which it was written is, but, he clearly isn't unbiased.

-Hoot

[peace13]

15. Oh boy!

'A thorough understanding, acceptance, and use of a set of values, not based solely on human reason and experience, but instead based on religious values will enable a soldier to make the best moral and ethical decisions, resulting in an Armed Force of strong character.' Too funny that they can only think to use Christianity for just such a mission.

[Fuddnik]

16. How much spiritual fitness do you need to bomb a city with white phosphorous?