It’s about Time
October 24, 2013
According to the Air Force Times, the Air Force Academy is considering dropping or changing its honor oath because it has the phrase “so help me God.” Conservative war lovers and military worshipers, and especially evangelical ones, are going to have a fit over this. I say it’s about time. Because the Air Force, like the rest of the military is a global force for evil and not for good, the oath should not reference God in anyway.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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