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I keep the TV on all the time for background noise, but sometimes something catches my attention and I have to rewind to listen. The story was about how the military has more religious people than the non-military population.
Interviewer asks top-level military religious person why she thought that is. She said religious people make better soldiers. He asked why. Her reply:
"The ethos that we adhere to always places the mission first, never accept defeat, never leave a fallen comrade behind. Those kinds of things require you to have belief in something bigger than yourself."
This fits right in with the conceitedness I tend to hear from religious folks. "You can't be a moral person, you don't believe in god!" "You can't be a good person! You're not [that person's religion]!"
You know, I could never be in the military for many reasons, but one of them is that I would be unhappy blindly following orders. That seems a much more likely reason for the percent of religious people being higher in the military -- religion, faith, requires blind obedience, requires not questioning the logic of things, not requiring proof before buying into stuff.
Interviewer asks top-level military religious person why she thought that is. She said religious people make better soldiers. He asked why. Her reply:
"The ethos that we adhere to always places the mission first, never accept defeat, never leave a fallen comrade behind. Those kinds of things require you to have belief in something bigger than yourself."
This fits right in with the conceitedness I tend to hear from religious folks. "You can't be a moral person, you don't believe in god!" "You can't be a good person! You're not [that person's religion]!"
You know, I could never be in the military for many reasons, but one of them is that I would be unhappy blindly following orders. That seems a much more likely reason for the percent of religious people being higher in the military -- religion, faith, requires blind obedience, requires not questioning the logic of things, not requiring proof before buying into stuff.
