{"id":27606,"date":"2011-11-22T07:21:10","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T11:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27606"},"modified":"2011-11-22T07:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T11:21:10","slug":"cry-baby-atheists-at-camp-pendleton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27606","title":{"rendered":"Cry-baby atheists at Camp Pendleton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/pendeltoncross.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27607\" title=\"pendeltoncross\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/pendeltoncross.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/pendeltoncross.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/pendeltoncross-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIn 2003 before they deployed to Iraq, several Marines erected a crude cross in the sand at Camp Pendleton. AT east three of those Marines wouldn&#8217;t return from iraq. Their cross burned during a brushfire in 2007, but Scott Radetski rebuilt the cross and made it fireproof and helped to put it back in the spot where the original had been.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers is offended by the sight of something they can&#8217;t see according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/marine-corps\/marine-corps-reviewing-hilltop-cross-on-base-after-atheists-complaint-1.161355\">Stars &amp; Stripes<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After an article about the new cross appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers protested to base officials that the cross violates the separation of church and state required by the Constitution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.militaryatheists.org\/2011\/11\/unconstitutional-christian-monuments-mar-veterans-day\/#comment-75\">their website<\/a>, the Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers calls the cross erected by grieving friends of fallen Marines &#8220;stolen valor&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Ya know, I&#8217;m not particularly religious&#8230;I haven&#8217;t been in a church in decades&#8230;but I&#8217;m not in the habit of ruining other peoples&#8217; beliefs. And I don&#8217;t see the erection of a cross in the desert as particularly harmful or dangerous. And I certainly don&#8217;t like an organization who thinks that they have the corner on the market of &#8220;free thinkng&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2003 before they deployed to Iraq, several Marines erected a crude cross in the sand &hellip; <a title=\"Cry-baby atheists at Camp Pendleton\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27606\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cry-baby atheists at Camp Pendleton<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}