A Little Covered Story that Deserves Attention — Cadet Blake Page’s Third Year Resignation from West Point — due to the Authority-Bound, Unconstitutional Christian Proselytizing that Is Taking over America’s Military Officer Corps

© 2012 Peter Free

 

05 December 2012

 

 

This is bad for the United States, even if one is a fervent Christian

 

Freedom of religion is an American constitutional principle.  It cannot be safeguarded, when American military and political leaders openly defy and circumvent it:

 

[T]he tipping point of my decision to resign [from West Point] was the realization that countless officers here and throughout the military are guilty of blatantly violating the oaths they swore to defend the Constitution.

 

These men and women are criminals, complicit in light of day defiance of the Uniform Code of Military Justice through unconstitutional proselytism, discrimination against the non-religious and establishing formal policies to reward, encourage and even at times require sectarian religious participation.

 

These transgressions are nearly always committed in the name of fundamentalist evangelical Christianity.

 

The sparse leaders who object to these egregious violations are relegated to the position of silent bystanders, because they understand all too well the potential ramifications of publically expressing their loyalty to the laws of our country.

 

© 2012 Blake Page, Why I Don't Want to Be a West Point Graduate, Huffington Post (03 December 2012) (paragraph split)

 

Michael L. Weinstein founded the Military Religious Freedom Foundation for the same reasons.

 

 

Institutionalized religious fanaticism makes competent American military and foreign policy that much more difficult to achieve

 

Even if one (misguidedly) does not care a wit about the Constitution, forceful, authority-based proselytizing in the American military has negative practical consequences for American foreign policy.

 

See, for example:

 

my article (with background references) — regarding the probable proselytizing motive for the February 2012 Koran burning at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan,

 

another essay — explaining how the failure to adhere to our own constitutional values makes American military and political operations in Islamic lands that much more deadly,

 

and

 

the Golden Rule’s support for — Richard Falk’s geopolitically based criticism of President Obama’s insincere apology for the Bagram Koran burning.

 

 

The bottom line — what we look like we’re up to matters

 

When the American military and its Commander in Chief look like they are out to stamp out other peoples’ belief systems, “we” increase their resistance to us — no matter how harmless our endeavors seem to be to us.  Resulting insurgencies kill our troops.

 

It ironically distasteful that the United States, which was explicitly founded on religious freedom and the implied separation of church and state necessary to achieve it, would so easily turn its back on the principles that made our most basic freedoms possible.

 

 

The moral? — Institutionalizing anti-Constitutional activity at America’s military academies, and allowing it to run rampant among the four services’ officer corps, is indirect treason

 

When we kill the Constitution, we kill the United States.

 

If that is not disguised treason, what is?