Wed, 04 May 2005

Air Force Academy wrestles with alleged religious bias

You could subtitle this 'Playing into the Terrorists Hands", as this is sure to be picked up in Arabic language sources as "proof" that the US is a Christian nation on a crusade against Islam.

Historically, Christianity was pretty marginal until it learned to adapt itself to a warrior ethos - Constantine conquering in the sign of the cross signaled not only a change in official religion in the Roman empire, but also a new way to look at the military from a Christian perspective. And the Christian soldiers have been marching onward off to war ever since ...

USATODAY.com - A Pentagon task force will investigate the religious climate at the Air Force Academy after allegations of anti-Semitism, favoritism for born-again Christian cadets and conversion attempts by evangelicals on the Colorado Springs campus.

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