Atheists Meetup: Crises of Conscience for Nontheists in the Military - May 24

Subject:Crises of Conscience for Nontheists in the Military

Speaker: Jason Torpy, President, Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers

From the phillyethics.org website:
Nontheists suffer the same ethical dilemmas as other service members. We consider the ethics of orders received from our direct superiors and our civilian leaders in government. Nontheists have additional difficulty for two primary reasons. First, we lack the helpful guidance of chaplains, who are simply not equipped and in some cases not inclined to provide morale support to nontheists. Second, the overt theistic religiosity of our commanders at all levels makes it very difficult for us to serve with a clear conscience without feeling as if we are perpetuating a theocratic regime.