“Not only is this racist, which should be enough to get it out of the manual, it is also, by being in the handbook, an official recognized, legit religion according to the military.”
Well, yes. Do you really want the government deciding whether a religion is or isn’t legit? What would they use as criteria? Number of adherents in the world? The Nation? The military? The branch? Far better, and constitutional, to accept all religions equally, not endorse one or another.
But it’s a fact that there ARE atheists and satanists and wiccans and Mormons in the service. That was our business, not yours.
“It's no wonder we're going down the tubes fast. It's bad enough that there are people who actually believe this stuff much less the military giving it recognition.”
But no power. Just acknowledging that when given the form, you wrote something in the block for religion. Wouldn’t and shouldn’t matter again until they carve your tombstone.
Seriously, show me on your tombstone how an electron design on my tombstone affects you in the slightest.
“Write your congresspersons!”
And say what? Suspend the Constitution for the following religions? Ignore the civil rights of soldiers, sailors, and Marines that practice icky faiths?
It’s none of your fucking business, jackass.