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Date: Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 5:01 AM
Subject: The Disturbing Secrets of the Air Force's Jesus Loves Nukes Nuclear Missile Program
To: ShunkW <shunkw@sbcglobal.net>
The Disturbing Secrets of the Air Force's Jesus Loves Nukes Nuclear Missile
Program
Jesus loves everyone. He loves innocents, he loves sinners, he loves cream
colored ponies and crisp apple strudels. And according to the United States
Air Force, Jesus loves atomic intercontinental ballistic missiles and
nuclear mass-murdering too.
That's basically what they have been telling their nuclear missile officers
for decades under a special ethics training program colloquially known as
Jesus Loves Nukes. It seems that the use of nuclear weapons to destroy enemy
populations is perfectly fine according to their interpretation of Christian
ethics. Now, after being exposed by Truth-Out
<http://www.truth-out.org/air-force-cites-new-testament-ex-nazi-train-office
rs-ethics-launching-nuclear-weapons/1311776738> and the Military Religious
Freedom Foundation, the Air Force is canceling it
<http://www.military.com/news/article/af-pulls-jesus-loves-nukes-training-.h
tml> .
What is it?
The "ethics" training-imparted by USAF chaplains-uses many passages of the
Old and New Testament to justify the use of atomic weapons to obliterate
innocent populations (aka the enemy). Its core document, a 43-page
Powerpoint presentation, also quotes St Augustine's Causes to Just War. It
contains references to Hiroshima and Nagasaki too, teaching the official-and
much debated-excuse for the bombing of those two Japanese cities.
The document also dedicates an entire slide to rocket scientist Wernher Von
Braun, who justifies the use of missiles as a morally just decision:
<http://gizmodo.com/5827005/jesus-loves-nukes-gallery/gallery/1>
<http://gizmodo.com/5827005/jesus-loves-nukes-gallery/gallery/2>
<http://gizmodo.com/5827005/jesus-loves-nukes-gallery/gallery/3>
<http://gizmodo.com/5827005/jesus-loves-nukes-gallery/gallery/4>
<http://gizmodo.com/5827005/jesus-loves-nukes-gallery/gallery/5>
<http://gizmodo.com/5827005/jesus-loves-nukes-gallery/gallery/6>
View the gallery
<http://gizmodo.com/5827005/jesus-loves-nukes-gallery/gallery/>
We knew that we had created a new means of warfare and the question as to
what nation, to what victorious nation we were willing to entrust this
brainchild of ours was a moral decision more than anything else. We wanted
to see the world spared another conflict such as Germany had just been
through and we felt that only by surrendering such a weapon to people who
are guided by the Bible could such an assurance to the world be best
secured.
Braun, before becoming one of the fathers of the space program, was a Nazi
scientist who used Jewish prisoners to make the V-2 missiles that terrorized
London during the end of World War II. Those words were his justification
for the use of those bombs. By the way, the emphasis on that quote is in the
original document.
Two decades too late
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation
<http://www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/> requested the documents
<http://truthout.org/files/nuclear_ethics.pdf> (PDF) under the Freedom of
Information Act. They did it after thirty religious missile officers-most
with Catholic and Protestant backgrounds-contacted them asking to fix the
situation.
The publication of the presentation (PDF)
<http://truthout.org/files/nuclear_ethics.pdf> has caused the USAF to halt
the program
<http://www.military.com/news/article/af-pulls-jesus-loves-nukes-training-.h
tml> immediately. Dod Buzz believes this move
<http://www.dodbuzz.com/2011/08/02/af-suspends-jesus-loves-nukes-training/>
is actually in line with the "change of culture" that is coming from the Air
Force's Global Strike Command, set by top dog Lt. Gen. Jim Kowalski.
<http://www.dodbuzz.com/2011/07/28/top-af-nuke-general-we-must-continue-cult
ural-change/>
Whatever the reasons are, the cancelation comes twenty years too late. While
I can understand the moral, ethical and psychological problems that the idea
of unleashing hell upon millions of people may cause to any normal human
being, there's absolutely no justification for this religious-based
training.
As the MRFF's president <http://www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/> points
out, this has no place under "the 'no religious test' mandate of the
Constitution and the First Amendment's 'No Establishment' clause." But
beyond that, what seems repugnant to me is the idea of manipulating
Christian ethics to try to brainwash officers into thinking that the launch
of nuclear weapons is morally right. Simply because it just can't be, no
matter the way you look at it.
I'm not a religious person, but having been raised in Catholicism, the
ethics of the Judeo-Christian Mediterranean culture were an integral part of
my upbringing. For Jesus, the Bible character, there's no justification for
the use of force. Much less for the massive annihilation of humans.
But then again, people have been using religion to justify war against
others since the beginning of recorded history, so I'm not surprised about
this new elaborated twist. In fact, including a Nazi scientist's idea of
morals and the official justification for Hiroshima makes total sense.
[Truth-out
<http://www.truth-out.org/air-force-cites-new-testament-ex-nazi-train-office
rs-ethics-launching-nuclear-weapons/1311776738> via Veterans News Now
<http://www.veteransnewsnow.com/2011/08/01/u-s-air-force-pulls-bible-themed-
training-for-nuclear-missile-officers-after-truthout-report/> -
Military.com
<http://www.military.com/news/article/af-pulls-jesus-loves-nukes-training-.h
tml> via DoD Buzz
<http://www.dodbuzz.com/2011/08/02/af-suspends-jesus-loves-nukes-training/>
]
http://gizmodo.com/5826972/the-disturbing-secrets-of-the-air-forces-jesus-lo
ves-nukes-nuclear-missile-program
Sw
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From: ShunkW <shunkw@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 5:01 AM
Subject: The Disturbing Secrets of the Air Force's Jesus Loves Nukes Nuclear Missile Program
To: ShunkW <shunkw@sbcglobal.net>
The Disturbing Secrets of the Air Force's Jesus Loves Nukes Nuclear Missile
Program
Jesus loves everyone. He loves innocents, he loves sinners, he loves cream
colored ponies and crisp apple strudels. And according to the United States
Air Force, Jesus loves atomic intercontinental ballistic missiles and
nuclear mass-murdering too.
That's basically what they have been telling their nuclear missile officers
for decades under a special ethics training program colloquially known as
Jesus Loves Nukes. It seems that the use of nuclear weapons to destroy enemy
populations is perfectly fine according to their interpretation of Christian
ethics. Now, after being exposed by Truth-Out
<http://www.truth-out.org/air-force-cites-new-testament-ex-nazi-train-office
rs-ethics-launching-nuclear-weapons/1311776738> and the Military Religious
Freedom Foundation, the Air Force is canceling it
<http://www.military.com/news/article/af-pulls-jesus-loves-nukes-training-.h
tml> .
What is it?
The "ethics" training-imparted by USAF chaplains-uses many passages of the
Old and New Testament to justify the use of atomic weapons to obliterate
innocent populations (aka the enemy). Its core document, a 43-page
Powerpoint presentation, also quotes St Augustine's Causes to Just War. It
contains references to Hiroshima and Nagasaki too, teaching the official-and
much debated-excuse for the bombing of those two Japanese cities.
The document also dedicates an entire slide to rocket scientist Wernher Von
Braun, who justifies the use of missiles as a morally just decision:
<http://gizmodo.com/5827005/jesus-loves-nukes-gallery/gallery/1>
<http://gizmodo.com/5827005/jesus-loves-nukes-gallery/gallery/2>
<http://gizmodo.com/5827005/jesus-loves-nukes-gallery/gallery/3>
<http://gizmodo.com/5827005/jesus-loves-nukes-gallery/gallery/4>
<http://gizmodo.com/5827005/jesus-loves-nukes-gallery/gallery/5>
<http://gizmodo.com/5827005/jesus-loves-nukes-gallery/gallery/6>
View the gallery
<http://gizmodo.com/5827005/jesus-loves-nukes-gallery/gallery/>
We knew that we had created a new means of warfare and the question as to
what nation, to what victorious nation we were willing to entrust this
brainchild of ours was a moral decision more than anything else. We wanted
to see the world spared another conflict such as Germany had just been
through and we felt that only by surrendering such a weapon to people who
are guided by the Bible could such an assurance to the world be best
secured.
Braun, before becoming one of the fathers of the space program, was a Nazi
scientist who used Jewish prisoners to make the V-2 missiles that terrorized
London during the end of World War II. Those words were his justification
for the use of those bombs. By the way, the emphasis on that quote is in the
original document.
Two decades too late
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation
<http://www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/> requested the documents
<http://truthout.org/files/nuclear_ethics.pdf> (PDF) under the Freedom of
Information Act. They did it after thirty religious missile officers-most
with Catholic and Protestant backgrounds-contacted them asking to fix the
situation.
The publication of the presentation (PDF)
<http://truthout.org/files/nuclear_ethics.pdf> has caused the USAF to halt
the program
<http://www.military.com/news/article/af-pulls-jesus-loves-nukes-training-.h
tml> immediately. Dod Buzz believes this move
<http://www.dodbuzz.com/2011/08/02/af-suspends-jesus-loves-nukes-training/>
is actually in line with the "change of culture" that is coming from the Air
Force's Global Strike Command, set by top dog Lt. Gen. Jim Kowalski.
<http://www.dodbuzz.com/2011/07/28/top-af-nuke-general-we-must-continue-cult
ural-change/>
Whatever the reasons are, the cancelation comes twenty years too late. While
I can understand the moral, ethical and psychological problems that the idea
of unleashing hell upon millions of people may cause to any normal human
being, there's absolutely no justification for this religious-based
training.
As the MRFF's president <http://www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/> points
out, this has no place under "the 'no religious test' mandate of the
Constitution and the First Amendment's 'No Establishment' clause." But
beyond that, what seems repugnant to me is the idea of manipulating
Christian ethics to try to brainwash officers into thinking that the launch
of nuclear weapons is morally right. Simply because it just can't be, no
matter the way you look at it.
I'm not a religious person, but having been raised in Catholicism, the
ethics of the Judeo-Christian Mediterranean culture were an integral part of
my upbringing. For Jesus, the Bible character, there's no justification for
the use of force. Much less for the massive annihilation of humans.
But then again, people have been using religion to justify war against
others since the beginning of recorded history, so I'm not surprised about
this new elaborated twist. In fact, including a Nazi scientist's idea of
morals and the official justification for Hiroshima makes total sense.
[Truth-out
<http://www.truth-out.org/air-force-cites-new-testament-ex-nazi-train-office
rs-ethics-launching-nuclear-weapons/1311776738> via Veterans News Now
<http://www.veteransnewsnow.com/2011/08/01/u-s-air-force-pulls-bible-themed-
training-for-nuclear-missile-officers-after-truthout-report/> -
Military.com
<http://www.military.com/news/article/af-pulls-jesus-loves-nukes-training-.h
tml> via DoD Buzz
<http://www.dodbuzz.com/2011/08/02/af-suspends-jesus-loves-nukes-training/>
]
http://gizmodo.com/5826972/the-disturbing-secrets-of-the-air-forces-jesus-lo
ves-nukes-nuclear-missile-program
Sw
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