Air Force Academy Cadets Decide They Must Pretend To Be Fundamentalist Christians
A little over a year ago, a cadet at the Air Force Academy emailed the Military Religious Freedom Foundation
(MRFF) to tell us about an “underground” group of about a hundred
Academy cadets who, in order to maintain good standing among their peers
and superiors at the Academy, were actually pretending to be
fundamentalist Christians. Their charade included leaving Bibles,
Christian literature, and Christian music CDs laying around their rooms;
attending fundamentalist Christian Bible studies; and feigning
devoutness at the Academy’s weekly “Special Programs in Religious
Education” (SPIRE) programs. This group of cadets had decided to resort
to doing whatever they had to do to play the role of the “right kind” of
Christian cadets, all the while living in constant fear of being
“outed.”
Thursday, October 13, 2011
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