Before we go any further, it’s important to understand the offending passage on the poster was first published in a 1955 Air Force manual.
“Men cannot live without faith except for brief moments of anarchy or despair,” one poster read. “Faith leads to conviction – and convictions lead to actions. It is only a man of deep convictions, a man of deep faith, who will make the sacrifices needed to save his manhood. … It is obvious that our enemy will attack us at our weakest spot. The hole in our armor is our lack of faith. We need to revive a fighting faith by which we can live, and for which we would be willing even to die.”
The words the National Organization for Women found most egregious were “man”, “men” and “manhood.”
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) fired the first shot on the “faith-based” poster – demanding it be removed because it was an endorsement of religion.
“This message undoubtedly expresses a preference for airmen of religious faith over those who practice no religion,” MRFF founder Mikey Weinstein wrote to General Carlisle.
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Faith isn't always about religion
STOP bowing to the minorities of people. These women are idiots at best and it's not a Majority of anything.
Put them in the bomb bay and open the doors. See if they find faith, then.
These religious propaganda ads are egregiously insulting to those who serve our great nation, and especially to those who have made the gravest sacrifice to protect our freedom and liberty.
America is not a theocracy, we are a free secular republic. Putting up religious propaganda the diminishes the service of ANY American should be considered offensive by ALL Americans.
Liberals are intolerant of everything around them.
@12:15
Hey, I'm conservative, and the right side of this argument is take these posters down. I don't support new wave or 3rd generation feminism (look it up), and don't always support the MFFRF or FFRF, but they are right on this issue..
Which is WHY the posters were taken down. It seems the folks who are intolerant or "snowflakes" are the ones with hurt feelings they don't get to impose their religion on other people.
@12:15
Hey, I'm conservative, and the right side of this argument is take these posters down. I don't support new wave or 3rd generation feminism (look it up), and don't always support the MFFRF or FFRF, but they are right on this issue..
Which is WHY the posters were taken down. It seems the folks who are intolerant or "snowflakes" are the ones with hurt feelings they don't get to impose their religion on other people.
Men and women are different in mood, reasoning, analytics, emotions, and logic. These statements are about MEN.
You women must have forgotten to make your own posters.
So, when you do, you can put them up next to ours.
There, fixed that!
Steve,
These posters are about FAITH. Did you read the messages? Please to explain how they don't apply to women.... or do faith messages not apply to women?
Either way it doesn't matter, the posters were removed because they had no business being up in the first place.
It was an all-male Air Force fighting force when that poster was made. With the inclusion of women in the fighting forces, the poster has become obsolete, and perhaps offensive to those who fight side by side in today's services. The wording should gently go and not be any kind of political issue, as the wording does not represent today's Air Force.
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