At least 9,400 atheists in the military, more than Jews, Muslims, etc

[usregimechange]

Defense Department statistics show that about 9,400 of the nation’s 1.4 million active-duty military personnel identify themselves as atheists or agnostics, making them a larger subpopulation than Jews, Muslims, Hindus or Buddhists in the military.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/27/us/27atheists.html?pagewanted=all

[yellerpup]

1. Rationality in the military.

Can't wait for some of these folks to get promoted to the top. That will be change I can believe in. :kick: & REC.

[sakabatou]

2. And yet I keep hearing "no atheists in fox holes"

Dumbasses.

[Ninjaneer]

3. "'There are no atheists in foxholes'

isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes”
-- James Morrow

[progressoid]

4. And 285,000 service members who claim no religious preference

I'm betting a lot of them are also A/A.