Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers

Defense Department expands its list of recognized religions

By Kimberly Winston — April 21, 2017
(RNS) The list doubles to include many minority religions, including humanism, Asatru and heathenism.

Airman denied re-entry to Air Force for refusing to say ‘so help me God’

By Kimberly Winston — September 5, 2014
(RNS) He's willing to sign a secular version of the Air Force oath but there's no such legal option.

House rejects call to allow nonreligious military chaplains

By Kimberly Winston — July 24, 2013
(RNS) The Pentagon recognizes more than 200 endorsing agents, all of them based on a belief in God. But there has been a recent push by Humanists to endorse their own military chaplains.

Humanists want a military chaplain to call their own

By Kimberly Winston — July 22, 2013
(RNS) The Humanist Society -- like all organizations that represent nonbelievers -- is not among the Department of Defense’s list of approximately 200 groups allowed to endorse chaplains. They want to change that.
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