Not everyone appreciates having religion shoved in their faces, it seems. (Everything below the asterisk lines is a quotation.)
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DFACs not for religion
There are many chapels on Camp Anaconda, Iraq, for religious services. When one wants to participate or hear religious jaw-jacking, that is where one goes.
There are also many dining facilities. When one is hungry and wants to get something to eat, this is where one goes. When religious services, Bible quoting and gospel singing are held during meal times in the DFACs, this amounts to disrespect for those of other religions and those of no religion.
In the wake of the recent Air Force Academy scandal concerning religious intolerance, one would think those who run the religious departments on Anaconda would reconsider pushing their religion on a captive audience, not only on those who are there just to get something to eat but also on those who work in the DFACS who are of a different faith or no faith at all.
Is it really too much to ask that the preaching and pushing of Christianity be held within the chapels, where those who wish it can seek it there and those who do not wish to hear it will not be held captive and forcibly subjected to Christian ritualism?
I don’t go into the chapels to eat my breakfast, so the religiously inclined should show the same respect and not come into a dining facility to preach their religion.
Frederick Geraci
Camp Anaconda, Iraq
4 comments:
Geeze Louise!! What next??
That Happy Chica,
Marcia Ellen
grrrreat letter. thanks for posting this. i hope someone is listening to him.
I am appalled at this! My father, who was a WWII Veteran, as well as a twenty year Veteran of the USAF never mentioned such things happening. After his retirement, he went to work in Vietnam at the US Embassy (did not make it home alive). I am an Air Force "brat", although well past the "brat" stage, I have three grown children. I never in my life have heard of the things written in the preceding. It seems to me this is synonymous with that which this country has been complaining of the rituals of Islam. Or, to be more specific, the radical practices of Al Quaeda with the Islamic religion. The bottom line is: the US government is no better, inflicting - or allowing this to happen to military personnel stationed in Iraq.
D.E. Peterson
I am also an old military brat but a civilian today. I am also can not believe what is happening. What were the chapels for??
This is like the Spanish Missionaries and other religious sects that seem that they need to go in and try to brain wash.
It is getting a little much to stomach. The Phoenix Airport has built a sheltered area in the cab staging area so that the cab drivers of a certain faith can pray to Allah but I don't see anything being done for other faiths. This is on US ground, not in another country.
Wake up America!!
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