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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTed Cruz tells home-schooled kids: The ‘job of a chaplain is to be insensitive to atheists’
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/19/ted-cruz-tells-home-schooled-kids-the-job-of-a-chaplain-is-to-be-insensitive-to-atheists/Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Tuesday explained to a group of children that atheists in the United States were working to take away their religious freedoms. Speaking at the Network of Iowa Christian Home Educators, Cruz told parents and children as young as 3 that school choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st century.
Cruz repeated a conspiracy theory that the Convention on the Rights of the Child would allow the United Nations to take parenting decisions away from Americans. Nothing in international law, nothing in any treaty should be used as a backdoor vehicle to undermine the rights of every parent here to raise your children consistent with your faith, with your good judgement and the love you have for your children, he said.
The possible 2016 Republican presidential candidate went on to cite a series of cases to assert that atheists were trying to destroy religious freedom in the United States. We have never seen an administration with such hostility to religious faith, Cruz opined. You know, last year, there was a chaplain in the Air Force up in Alaska who wrote in a blog post the phrase There are no atheists in fox holes. He was ordered by his supervising officer to take it down.
I guess it was deemed insensitive to atheists. I kind of thought it was the job of a chaplain to be insensitive to atheists. After a round of applause, the senator added: To welcome them into the forgiving arms of a loving god.
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)wait till the women of this country find out what the Southern Baptist Conventionist Ted Cruz's religions platform says about them and where they belong...
longship
(40,416 posts)And mad as a fucking hatter.
If this is what the GOP wants to put up as their best, we may be in very, very big trouble if the Republicans ever get into power again.
GOTV 2014!!!
Marr
(20,317 posts)They gravitate to the gullible.
If he really believed in God and the 10 Commandments, he wouldn't lie, cheat and steal. Nope, that dude does not believe there is really a Hell. But he sure know how to play this stupid right wing rubes.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)He us also very dangerous.
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)I had one asshole in public in a store tell me that, so I said "Ever heard of Pat Tillman? He was killed in combat and was an atheist."
"duh..."
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)But I certainly knew there were and are many atheists fighting for our country.
pipi_k
(21,020 posts)what that means....
A better interpretation of that statement, "There are no atheists in foxholes" is that, when faced with the threat of one's own imminent death, even an atheist may start praying that the next bomb or grenade or round of bullets doesn't hit where he is.
frylock
(34,825 posts)pipi_k
(21,020 posts)the statement that there are NO atheists in foxholes is broadbrushing and generalizing, so I'll hand you that.
There could indeed be some atheists who never look for comfort to a religion they might have been taught as children.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)stg81
(351 posts)Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)And graduated from Harvard Law???
He thinks if he renounces his Canadian citizenship he can magically run for President. What a dumbass.
LonePirate
(13,417 posts)Do they hire conspiracy theorists to brainstorm all day with focus groups to develop this nonsense?
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)Because they didn't apparently get that message, what with helping an atheist like me deal with coming back from deployment.
Trillo
(9,154 posts)I guess it's kind of sad for the other Christians who are love based.
Gothmog
(145,152 posts)This is typical for Carnival Cruz
Throd
(7,208 posts)ck4829
(35,069 posts)"I kind of thought it was the job of a chaplain to be insensitive to atheists"
Really, showing no concern for the feelings of others? Wouldn't that fly right in the face of what a chaplain is supposed to do?
"To welcome them into the forgiving arms of a loving god."
God is about forgiveness, OK, you can say that. But here, it sounds different, like the chaplain's main job is supposed to rationalize what the soldiers are tasked to do.
And then I remembered this...
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/topstories/2007-10-09-3059473540_x.htm?csp=34
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_%25C3%2581ngel_Zanchetta&prev=/search%3Fq%3DAlberto%2B%25C3%2581ngel%2BZanchetta%2Bscilingo%26biw%3D1440%26bih%3D705
Alberto Angel Zanchetta and other chaplains served a very sinister role in the Dirty War, they provided comfort to soldiers as they murdered non-combatants. His rhetoric is no less violent than his father's, he's just better at being subtle about it.