In the final analysis, I believe that an atheist chaplain would be the last person in the world that we would want a dying soldier who needs that last moment counselling in their life.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
By definition, chaplains minister to the spiritual needs of our men and women in armed services, a vital function that an individual without any inclination toward spirituality would not be able to perform.
A chaplain's assistant is customarily a figure of fun in the American Army.
You don't see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then.
An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.
I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose - although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope.
It's all about secular unionism, the advancement of atheism, which they even tried to create in this law - Democrats did - an atheistic chaplaincy.
An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.
The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.
A chaplain's biggest gift is to be present and just listen.