Which religion controls the Army of your country?

[Notanumber]

Islam is now telling the UK army whom it must discharge as a punishment.

 

[Revoltingest]

Isn't "Onward Christian Soldiers" our national anthem?

 

[Sunstone]

Fundamentalist Evangelicalism is huge at the Air Force Academy here in town. There have been scandals involving Evangelical cadets and instructors harassing members of more liberal Christian denominations, as well as other faiths.

 

[Anthem]

I'm sure you will tell me it's Islam because a muslim walked past 500 miles from the military base once.

 

[Twilight Hue]

I remember mandatory Chapel time.

 

[Kangaroo Feathers]

Fundamentalist Evangelicalism is huge at the Air Force Academy here in town. There have been scandals involving Evangelical cadets and instructors harassing members of more liberal Christian denominations, as well as other faiths.

Some years ago I actually wrote to your air farce academy over some of those issues, just to offer an opinion as a senior NCO. Never received any reply, which I thought was kinda rude, you know, with the whole "officer and gentleman" thing

 

[Kangaroo Feathers]

I'm sure you will tell me it's Islam because a muslim walked past 500 miles from the military base once.

And there is some tiny minoroity of Muslims in the military, and they get special dietary privileges donchaknow!

 

[BSM1]

Funny story. Back in boot camp (sometime around the invention of fire) our Company Commander was asking about religious affiliations of the 80 some guys in my company because attending a church service was mandatory. "How many Protestants in here?" Over half the company raised their hands. "How many Catholics in here?" Most of the rest of raised their hands. "How many Jews in here?" I think there was a couple. Then he asked, "Any atheist in here?". Well, one hand went up sheepishly (guess who!). The Commander walked right over to me...errm...the atheist, looked him right in the eye, and said matter of fact tone, "Son, you just became a Protestant". "Yes, sir," was the only answer that made any sense at the time.

 

[exchemist]

Islam is now telling the UK army whom it must discharge as a punishment.

Do you have a reliable source for this story that you can direct me to?

 

[Nakosis]

Funny story. Back in boot camp (sometime around the invention of fire) our Company Commander was asking about religious affiliations of the 80 some guys in my company because attending a church service was mandatory. "How many Protestants in here?" Over half the company raised their hands. "How many Catholics in here?" Most of the rest of raised their hands. "How many Jews in here?" I think there was a couple. Then he asked, "Any atheist in here?". Well, one hand went up sheepishly (guess who!). The Commander walked right over to me...errm...the atheist, looked him right in the eye, and said matter of fact tone, "Son, you just became a Protestant". "Yes, sir," was the only answer that made any sense at the time.

Good for you. My son wouldn't do stupid in the Navy, no offense. My son said no sir to that. Unfortunately he had a habit of showing the folks in charge the stupidity of their orders. He constantly got extra duty and given the crappiest of tasks. He did them all without complaint. Still his time in the military would have been a lot easier at least pretending the folks in charge were smarter than they were.

 

[Kangaroo Feathers]

Do you have a reliable source for this story that you can direct me to?

As a general rule, any story that starts off making claims about "Islam telling anyone anything", it's pretty safe to ignore

 

[GoodbyeDave]

Usually I ignore posts that expect me to waste time watching a video: can't these people write? This time I succumbed, just for long enough to see it was made by Tommy Robinson. Enough!

 

[Valjean]

Fundamentalist Evangelicalism is huge at the Air Force Academy here in town. There have been scandals involving Evangelical cadets and instructors harassing members of more liberal Christian denominations, as well as other faiths.

Exactly the example that came to mind on seeing the thread header.
They want to be sure their recruits are moral enough to drop bombs on women and children, I guess...

Funny story. Back in boot camp (sometime around the invention of fire) our Company Commander was asking about religious affiliations of the 80 some guys in my company because attending a church service was mandatory. "How many Protestants in here?" Over half the company raised their hands. "How many Catholics in here?" Most of the rest of raised their hands. "How many Jews in here?" I think there was a couple. Then he asked, "Any atheist in here?". Well, one hand went up sheepishly (guess who!). The Commander walked right over to me...errm...the atheist, looked him right in the eye, and said matter of fact tone, "Son, you just became a Protestant". "Yes, sir," was the only answer that made any sense at the time.

Protestant/protester -- close enough.

Usually I ignore posts that expect me to waste time watching a video: can't these people write? This time I succumbed, just for long enough to see it was made by Tommy Robinson. Enough!

Some things take more than a few sentences to explain, and posts longer than a few sentences get ignored. Videos are a way to sneak in a long format post without putting the readers to sleep.

 

[Augustus]

I'm sure you will tell me it's Islam because a muslim walked past 500 miles from the military base once.

 

[exchemist]

Usually I ignore posts that expect me to waste time watching a video: can't these people write? This time I succumbed, just for long enough to see it was made by Tommy Robinson. Enough!

You mean toff-name Stephen Yaxley-Green, surely. Get it right!

 

[Notanumber]

Do you have a reliable source for this story that you can direct me to?

Try these -

UKIP Leader stands up for British Army cadets supporting Tommy Robinson

BRAVE PATRIOTS: Batten Defends Army Cadets Under Investigation For Supporting Tommy | Kipper Central

 

[exchemist]

Try these -

UKIP Leader stands up for British Army cadets supporting Tommy Robinson

BRAVE PATRIOTS: Batten Defends Army Cadets Under Investigation For Supporting Tommy | Kipper Central

No, no, you don't understand. I was asking for reliable sources. Re-li-a-ble.

You know, like the BBC, or a national newspaper, or Reuter's. That sort of thing.

Savvy?

 

[Anthem]

Try these -

UKIP Leader stands up for British Army cadets supporting Tommy Robinson

BRAVE PATRIOTS: Batten Defends Army Cadets Under Investigation For Supporting Tommy | Kipper Central

Kipper central

 

[Notanumber]

From the source –

 

[Draka]

Funny story. Back in boot camp (sometime around the invention of fire) our Company Commander was asking about religious affiliations of the 80 some guys in my company because attending a church service was mandatory. "How many Protestants in here?" Over half the company raised their hands. "How many Catholics in here?" Most of the rest of raised their hands. "How many Jews in here?" I think there was a couple. Then he asked, "Any atheist in here?". Well, one hand went up sheepishly (guess who!). The Commander walked right over to me...errm...the atheist, looked him right in the eye, and said matter of fact tone, "Son, you just became a Protestant". "Yes, sir," was the only answer that made any sense at the time.

My Company Commander never asked us what we were nor really cared. Now, come Sundays though, it was pretty much the choice between go to services or stay and clean the barracks. While there were some who stayed behind some of us "non-believers" would kind of run together and be a different religion every week. The church on base was huge and had, like, 5 different chapels for services of different denominations and religions in them. We'd just pick on to go to, though, I think, we tended to prefer the Catholic services for some reason.