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recruiting theocracy

an actual ad for joining the navy.

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Can you be a non-religious chaplain? That feels like discrimination if there’s a religious requirement.
Edit: As of 2018 at least, nope.
- I saw a Navy chaplain when I was going through some tough times in the Marines. I told him right off the bat that I was an atheist and he didn't push any religious shit on me. He just talked to me and worked with my command to get me seen by a trained therapist. Other Marines I knew had similar experiences. Chaplains are officers outside the normal command structure and are trained to provide services to everyone regardless of their faith or lack there of. Also a lot of military members are at least nominally religious so it makes sense to have someone to coordinate religious activity, especially overseas where there aren't local religious institutions.
  
  And every chaplain i met in the army was a jackass trying to recruit for their religion.
  
  This makes sense, the Navy weren't the people doing the Crusading.
- I think there's a requirement to render counseling services to all denominations, including atheists/agnostics, because the chaplain corps is pretty much the closest the Navy gets to mental health care while deployed. Not the greatest system, in all honesty.
- Part of the roles of a Navy Chaplain are to provide religious services. This is inherently a religious role, it should not be expected that an atheist or “non-theist” will perform these roles correctly.
  
  So what exactly do you think UU Ministers and ToS clergy do?
  
  Chaplain: a member of the clergy attached to a private chapel, institution, ship, branch of the armed forces, etc.
  By definition, a Chaplain is a religious insurgent.
  Insurgent: a rebel or revolutionary.
  So, an Insurgent Chaplain: An individual who is a Champlain in a country founded on the concept of separation of Church and State, but insists on being a paid state official to enforce their religion on members of the state.
- Oh look a religious test for a government position... What the fuck.
- Wow. I was thinking of Buddhist and Taoist chaplains, Or UU. personal gods may or not be held, but they don't usually push them on people, although the former two can and do have abuse allegations brought, some substantiated. Idk about UU.

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