{"id":46942,"date":"2014-05-12T16:45:58","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T20:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=46942"},"modified":"2015-02-08T14:40:49","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T19:40:49","slug":"yeah-this-makes-perfect-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=46942","title":{"rendered":"Yeah, This Makes Perfect Sense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coming soon, perhaps:  Athiest Chaplains.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose I&#8217;ve heard more foolish proposals.\u00a0 But at the moment, I can&#8217;t really say when.<\/p>\n<p>From Fox News:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A source tells Fox News that the Military Association of Atheists and Free Thinkers plans to make the request on Tuesday, floating its president Jason Torpy as the proposed chaplain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No, I&#8217;m not joking.\u00a0 The Fox article\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2014\/05\/12\/group-preparing-to-press-military-for-atheist-chaplain-source-says\/\">linked here<\/a> has more details.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow, I just don&#8217;t see this as making sense.\u00a0 I know Chaplains do far more than simply lead worship services.\u00a0 But I believe that there is indeed a religious component to a Chaplain&#8217;s duties.\u00a0 And besides, an &#8220;Atheist Chaplain&#8221; just seems like a freaking contradiction in terms to me.<\/p>\n<p>However:\u00a0 given the way things have been going recently, I wouldn&#8217;t bet against seeing this implemented sometime in the next 2 1\/2 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming soon, perhaps: Athiest Chaplains. I suppose I&#8217;ve heard more foolish proposals.\u00a0 But at the moment, &hellip; <a title=\"Yeah, This Makes Perfect Sense\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=46942\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yeah, This Makes Perfect Sense<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues","category-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46942","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}