Here’s another incident of mandatory religion in the Air Force (HT: Metacatholic).
Besides the fact that it is quite improper for the Air Force to provide mandatory religious indoctrination, this program clearly denigrates the faith of many who would disagree with a number of elements of the presentation.
I write about it here.
I ended up with a copy of this almost by accident, and have written some notes. While I’m not overly impressed by it, I see no reason for the controversy. Notes are here.
As someone who read Ayn Rand starting back in my college days, found her intellectually stimulating, yet disagreed in many ways, I loved this cartoon from Reason.com. (HT: The Agitator)
… and not believing other stuff. I found his whole list pretty interesting and thought provoking. Check it out!
Intelligent Design, that is, in the Florida Legislature. Early details on the Florida Citizens for Science Blog.
I’m not sure I agree it’s disgusting, although it may be unwise in a US forces context (even on British soil!).
I was a British MOD civil servant for seven years, and was regularly disappointed by the Buddhist content of most of our management training – occasionally explicit.
And that’s before someone decided Neuro Linguistic Programming was the way to go. “Hypnotism for Managers”, as one participant put it.