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Air Force Academy Goes Pagan

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

A Circle of Pagan Rocks

Fox News reported that the Air Force Academy is getting its own pagan altar.  No word yet whether the Academy will provide chickens and goat for sacrifices or whether the Wiccans and such will sacrifice one of their own.  The altar is a circle of rocks, which is certainly indicative of the intelligence of those involved in this decision to cave to the small pagan community there, since no one smarter than a box of rocks would have given these clowns a second thought.

As an Academy grad, I have to say this is the most moronic idea out of ‘the Zoo’ since the last decision, whatever it was, involving Mikey Weinstien’s efforts to degrade and eliminate Christian faith at the Academy.  But pagan faith is okay.

Wiccan cadets and officers on the Colorado Springs base have been convening for over a decade, but the school will officially dedicate a newly built circle of stones on about March 10, putting the outdoor sanctuary on an equal footing with the Protestant, Catholic, Jewish and Buddhist chapels on the base.

“When I first arrived here, Earth-centered cadets didn’t have anywhere to call home,” said Sgt. Robert Longcrier, the lay leader of the neo-pagan groups on base.

“Now, they meet every Monday night, they get to go on retreats, and they have a stone circle.”

Academy officials had no tally of the number of Wiccan cadets at the school of 4,500, but said they had been angling to set up a proper space since the academic year began.

“That’s one of the newer groups,” said John Van Winkle, a spokesman for the academy. “They’ve had a worship circle on base for some time and we’re looking to get them an official one.”

All this and don’t ask, don’t tell, as well.  Wonderful.  God help us all.