1. Atheist soldier sues Army for 'unconstitutional' discrimination

Comment #206879 by scrithe on July 8, 2008 at 11:46 pm

I've seen a few articles like this on here, and though I'm not doubting the validity of what events he's talking about, I think the general assumptions about the military may be a bit off.

I myself am in the military, the Air Force, in my case, and I haven't really ever experienced discrimination, that I know of, because of being an atheist. It's also really well known that I am. And there are a fair few where I work that are also are some variety of non-believer. Now, I haven't tried to set up some free-thinkers group, and I haven't protested when a chaplain stands up to pray, but I don't take part in anything religious and I would, and have, openly discussed these issues with others while on duty.

So, I'm not saying that there aren't religious aspects to the military, many of which I'd like to change, however, speaking from my own personal experience, the organizations and supervisors I've interacted with have generally been very impartial and have actual led me to others that share a similar view as mine, within the military.