{"id":66371,"date":"2005-04-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2005\/04\/30\/lusaf-in-the-name-of-god\/"},"modified":"2005-04-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-30T00:00:00","slug":"lusaf-in-the-name-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2005\/04\/30\/lusaf-in-the-name-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"L’USAF In The Name of God<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

L’USAF In The Name of God<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

\t30 avril 2005 Certes, la r\u00e9volution bushiste est en marche. On parle ici du cur de cette r\u00e9volution, qui est la dimension religieuse. Des nouvelles \u00e9tonnantes nous parviennent. L’une d’elles, non des moindres \u00e0 la lumi\u00e8re d’une r\u00e9flexion qui mesurerait toutes ses implications, concerne l’U.S. Air Force Academy de Colorado Springs, o\u00f9 sont form\u00e9s les futurs officiers et chefs de l’U.S. Air Force. (Cette remarque \u00e9tonnante: \u00ab Colorado Springs <\/em>[is] a testing ground not just for new artillery but for ideas, as if the mental frontier of America is still up for grabs.<\/em> \u00bb)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tDeux articles, publi\u00e9s en 24 heures, documentent largement ce ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne surprenant de l’investissement de l’Air Force Academy par les radicaux chr\u00e9tiens \u00e9vang\u00e9listes. On trouve un article sur le site OnLine Journal du 29 avril<\/a>, un autre sur le site WSWS.org du 30 avril<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tL’origine de l’invasion \u00e9vang\u00e9lique \u00e0 Colorado Springs, selon OnLine journal<\/em>:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abOne of the many casualties of this \u00a0\u00bbwar on culture\u00a0\u00bb has been the US Air Force Academy, which has traveled through a door in the wall that is supposed to separate church from state . . . a door that has been installed by a group of Theocons called Focus on the Family.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbAfter the Colorado-based Savings and Loan scandal erupted in the late 1980s, Colorado Springs became known as \u00a0\u00bbthe forfeiture capital of America.\u00a0\u00bb The city council and a local foundation, in an effort to boost the economy and diminished spirit, turned to and offered Focus on the Family a highly influential radio-based evangelical ministry a generous grant and land deal. A new Focus on the Family headquarters was opened in 1993, located just across the highway from the Air Force Academy.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbToday, the majority of Colorado Springs’ evangelical organizations, churches, and people fall under Focus on the Family’s web of evangelical influence, which extends from Colorado Springs to Washington, DC, and beyond.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb Focus on the Family’s radio show, hosted by the organization’s founder James Dobson, has about 200 million listeners in over 170 countries. In a recent survey of Protestant pastors, Dobson was voted one of the four most influential Christians in the world, placing him well ahead of former Pope John Paul II.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tL’Air Force Academy fut rapidement investie par les arm\u00e9es de la croyance \u00e9vang\u00e9liste install\u00e9es \u00e0 Colorado Springs. L’invasion re\u00e7ut des aides de l’int\u00e9rieur, semblables \u00e0 l’actuel commandant de l’\u00e9cole: \u00abThe academy’s born-again commandant, Brig. Gen. Johnny Weida, stated that the cadets’ first responsibility is to their God.<\/em>\u00bb Aujourd’hui, la situation de l’Air Force Academy est totalement \u00e0 l’image de la foi extr\u00e9miste des \u00e9vang\u00e9listes.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abThe academy is \u00a0\u00bbsystematically biased against any cadet that does not overtly espouse Christianity, said one cadet. During basic training, an academy chaplain urged cadets to warn other cadets that those who were not born again will burn in the fires of hell. The cadets were also told that Jesus had \u00a0\u00bbcalled\u00a0\u00bb them to the academy as part of God’s plan for their lives.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbA Yale University report, based on first-hand observations, took notice of an academy worship service that had an overwhelmingly evangelical tone and encouraged religious divisions rather than fostering spiritual understanding. An official from Yale said non-Christian cadets who feel the leadership is endorsing a certain faith are being intimidated by the call to evangelize.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbAdditionally, according to Yale’s report: Protestant Basic Cadets were encouraged to pray for the salvation of fellow BCT members who chose not to attend worship. . . . Cadets were encouraged to return to tents, proselytize fellow BCT members, and remind them of the consequences of apostasy.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbAccording to Vice Commandant Col. Debra Gray, normal conversations around the campus are closing with: If you don’t believe what I believe, you are going to hell. The atmosphere has gotten so out of hand that a Jewish cadet was called a filthy Jew on numerous occasions, while another was told the Holocaust was revenge for the crucifixion of Jesus.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tL’U.S. Air Force vient de r\u00e9agir \u00e0 la suite de diverses plaintes adress\u00e9es au Pentagone. Un nouveau cours, enseignant la tol\u00e9rance aux autres religions, vient d’\u00eatre institu\u00e9 et est obligatoirement dispens\u00e9 chaque semaine \u00e0 toutes les classes. Le r\u00e9sultat n’est pas convaincant, tant la p\u00e9n\u00e9tration de la religion \u00e9vang\u00e9liste est forte au sein de l’Acad\u00e9mie. Un rapport de l’association Americans United for Separation of Church and State observe: \u00abAt a more basic level, we have been informed that General Weida has cultivated and reinforced an attitudeshared by many in the Academy Chaplains’ Office and, increasingly, by other members of the Academy’s permanent [staff]that the Academy, and the Air Force in general, would be better off if populated solely by Christians. A stronger message of official preference for one particular faith is hard to imagine.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tLes implications de ce ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne sont peu ordinaires. D’abord, une remarque de base concerne la d\u00e9monstration, faite une fois de plus, de la fragilit\u00e9 des structures soi-disant publiques am\u00e9ricaines, qui s’av\u00e8rent ais\u00e9ment manipulables par des groupes s’appuyant sur la conviction de la foi. Ces structures sont d’une tr\u00e8s grande vuln\u00e9rabilit\u00e9 \u00e0 cause de l’absence de l\u00e9gitimit\u00e9 r\u00e9galienne.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tDe fa\u00e7on plus concr\u00e8te, il s’agit de mesurer les effets \u00e0 terme (pas n\u00e9cessairement long) d’un endoctrinement si radical effectu\u00e9 au sein de la structure d’une puissance aussi grande qu’est l’U.S. Air Force. Comme exemple, on rappellera le cas du g\u00e9n\u00e9ral Curtiss LeMay<\/a>, chef du Strategic Air Command puis de l’USAF, qui avait une psychologie conform\u00e9e \u00e0 cet extr\u00e9misme \u00e9vang\u00e9lique et qui, pourtant, n’\u00e9voluait pas dans un environnement humain comme pourrait le devenir celui de l’USAF. Son influence et son action furent extraordinaires au cur de l’USAF et mesurent, par analogie d’\u00e9vidence, ce que pourraient \u00eatre l’influence et l’action d’un cadre hi\u00e9rarchique de l’USAF \u00e9vang\u00e9lis\u00e9. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tLe site WSWS.org<\/em> \u00e9crit justement en conclusion de son article sur le sujet:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abThe implications of this are quite staggering: it means the Air Force officer corps is being educated not as a military force subordinate to a civilian authority, but as soldiers who are accountable first to God. Those who will be placed in control of the vast destructive power of modern aerial weaponry, including smart bombs and nuclear missiles, are to constitute a sort of praetorian guard of Christian fundamentalists.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbAside from its dire meaning for American democracy, there is the overriding question of mankind’s survival: The Pentagon is putting the power to incinerate the human race in the hands of religious zealots who believe in an imminent second coming in which Jesus Christ will stage a fiery return. Certainly an officer corps steeped in such a religious dogma will have few moral qualms about the use of nuclear weapons. Quite the contrary, they may well see a nuclear holocaust as a religiously ordained and even desirable way of hastening the end time.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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