Did you know that members of the US military are prohibited from praying or going to church?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

Apparently I do now.

God Bless Facebook.

[Glassunion]

1. If it's on the internet it must be true.

[Iggo]

13. Bon jour.

[VanillaRhapsody]

2. funny that...every base I have been on had lots of church...

and chaplains...wonder what they even need them for?

[arcane1]

3. It makes things very confusing for the chaplains

[irisblue]

4. what?

ummm...those...twits....mumbles and walks over to the lounge.....

[appleannie1]

5. Then why do they have Chaplains? I swear. Sometimes I think aliens are sucking some people's

brains out at night to do research on them. And the strange thing is the dumber they get, the more they become
Tea Party mouth pieces.

[treestar]

6. I've learned that the Catholics are being persecuted

Because if they teach in public schools they can't pray and teach the students about God.

[B2G]

7. How can you prohibit someone from praying??

One more reason I hate Facebook.

[Blue Idaho]

8. The willful suspension of disbelief.

Baggers, Birchers, and Neo-Confederates have to work hard at swallowing this horse shit - but in time they can gulp it down by the bucketful.

[Aristus]

9. What am I? Invisible? In four years of active duty, nobody ever prevented me from going to church.

I went nearly every Sunday. Even out in the field. On Sundays, if nothing was shaking, I'd go to the chaplain's tent for services.

In Basic Training, I joined a prayer group with some of the other guys. (The prayer leader was a crazy fundie, but the others were okay.)

Nope. Never had anyone tell me I couldn't.

So someone on Facebook lied. Imagine that!

[HockeyMom]

10. KP duties AF Basic if you don't go to worship

on Sundays. My daughter said she was an athiest. Ok, I'll go to Wiccan Services then. They didn't like that but couldn't do anything about that.

[antiquie]

11. Brave young woman.

[NuclearDem]

18. I remember that nonsense from my BMT days.

I did the Wiccan services too.

[DireStrike]

12. I think I've just discovered a subversive plot in the army!

Someone has been registering hundreds of American soldiers as "chaplains". From your information, this is obviously impossible. So it must be some plot to redirect funds within the army for who knows what nefarious schemes! Now I'm not saying it's communists... but it's the damn communists again! This time pretending to be religious to get out of their military duties! Will they never stop undermining America?

[NightWatcher]

14. The chaplins who work in the churches are contract workers and are "nonessential"

So therefore there's no one to hold the services and the buildings are closed.

[OriginalGeek]

15. My brother was a Chaplain's assistant

in the Army. His job in the first Gulf War was mostly making sure soldiers on leave didn't get arrested for alcohol possession when on leave. He steered them to the right spots.

[Solly Mack]

16. Snort

[DefenseLawyer]

17. The military has privatized the clergy

just like they have the mess hall and the motor pool.

[nadinbrzezinski]

19. yup, this is why

We have chaplains and on base churches and ...never mind

There are days tjis is all that is left...