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Listening to the news about how the id'ed military in Wed's insurrection are mostly Air Force. And remembering this story from 15 years ago re: evangelical radicalization at the Air Force Academy in CO. (Rep Capps & I talked about this at the time. https://ffrf.org/outreach/item/13195-evangelicalism-is-the-official-religion-of-the-air-force-academy
The students then would be senior officers now - perhaps even some retired.
Then-radicalized students would've spread thru the whole branch - training, teaching, leading others who did NOT go to the military academy.
I've always wondered about the influence of those days since.
(I've known plenty of great Air Force officers who are not like this btw)
I've always wondered about the influence of those days since.
(I've known plenty of great Air Force officers who are not like this btw)
Rep Doug Lamborn, who is the Congressman for the district in which the Air Force Academy is located, is one of the 147 GOP who voted to overturn the election results.
He also sits on the Air Force Academy's Board of Visitors.
He lists his religion simply as "Christian."
He also sits on the Air Force Academy's Board of Visitors.
He lists his religion simply as "Christian."
There was an investigation that led to new policies, etc, especially post-2007 - and the Air Force has been working to do better. https://religionnews.com/2017/10/06/taking-on-bigotry-the-air-force-got-it-right-this-time/
But there have been significant complaints as late as 2012: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/debate-reignites-over-religion-at-air-force-academy/2012/07/16/gJQAvB0PpW_story.html
The AFA, with its cross-currents of extremist evangelicalism, has been a recognized problem for almost 2 decades. And it is those streams, militarized "patriotism" and radicalized white evangelicalism that were so strongly on display on Jan 6.
This also makes me wonder about the newly-founded Trumpian Space Force and what's going on there -
