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Titolo: articolo su problemi nell' accademia areonautica USA

Trovato in rete (aleks sa che sono bravo a beccare questo tipo di news ;)
questo articolo su problemi seri nell' accademia areonautica USA di
Colorado Springs, causati da soggetti IMHO non rappresentativi dell'
"american way of life" :
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/printer_363.shtml
IMHO il problema e' abbastanza serio, in quanto una contaminazione
"ideologica" di giovani ufficiali in formazione e' dannosissima per
qualunque democrazia.
Saluti,
Dott. Piergiorgio.

"dott.piergiorgio" <dott.pierg...@SORYUfastwebnet.it> ha scritto nel
messaggio news:pan.2005.12.28...@SORYUfastwebnet.it...
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Francamente mi stupisco del come gli allievi dovrebbero trovare tutto questo
tempo per dedicarsi a queste attivita' extraprofessionali.
La giornata e' di 24 ore anche nel Colorado, presumo.
I casi sono due: o l'accademia aeronautica USA ha degli standard risibili
rispetto a quella italiana, oppure si sta un po' montando la panna.
Resta comunque il fatto che, se le cose sono davvero cosi', farebbe un po'
impressione non tanto la "contaminazione ideologica" ma addirittura
l'assoluta assenza nell'imprinting dell'allievo modello di quella che
dovrebbe essere la stella polare della formazione di ogni ufficiale: la
"patria", lo "stato", il "paese" prima di tutto.
Cosa peraltro perfettamene compatibile con la fede cristiana.
Ciao
Marco

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*** Si, la questione di Colorado Springs e' abbastanza nota agli "addetti ai
lavori" e non. Inizio' a parlarmene qualche anno fa un conoscente che abita
nella vicina Cripple Creek. Secondo lui non e' un caso che il fermento sia
nato proprio attorno alla cittadina che ospita l'Air Force Academy. Il
Colorado, nonostante l'ingobrante  presenza di "Focus on the Family"
a CS, e' infatti uno stato a maggioranza cattolica e con un'alta percentuale
di  atei e agnostici, che della religione se ne sbattono allegramente. Di
fondamentalisti se ne trovano pochi, benche' in crescita. Fra l'altro se
uno si reca da quelle parti con l'intenzione di trovare cospicue sacche
fundie (e qua pier mi e' scappato da ridere :-), rimarra' molto deluso.
Dove sono mi dirai? Ma e' ovvio, si sono quasi tutti dati appuntamento in
quel di Colorado Springs, che domande! Il West poi - a differenza del
South - e' piuttosto atipico e poco omogeneo dal pdv religioso, nonostante
sia a maggioranza repubblicano.
E a proposito di religione e USAF, vedi questi links
Le nuove linee guida :
http://tinyurl.com/bejtq
Colorado Springs e conflitti religiosi :
http://www.religioustolerance.org/relintolafa.htm
e questo articolo :
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Air Force on Monday named a rabbi who has served as a
senior military chaplain to help change the religious climate at the Air
Force Academy amid concern over inappropriate proselytizing by
evangelical Christians.
Rabbi Arnold Resnicoff, previously the top chaplain in the U.S. military's
European Command, will serve as a special assistant for "values and vision"
to acting Air Force Secretary Michael Dominguez and Chief of Staff Gen. John
Jumper, the Air Force said. Resnicoff is a retired U.S. Navy captain.
The Air Force said Resnicoff will advise Dominguez on implementing
recommendations made last week by Lt. Gen. Roger Brady, who headed an
assessment prompted by allegations that the academy promotes evangelical
Christianity and a climate of intolerance toward other religious beliefs
including Judaism.
The academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, produces junior officers for the
Air Force.
"As far as I know, there is no illegal discrimination -- that means someone
can't get a promotion or someone can't get a good grade or someone can't get
into a class based on religion," Resnicoff said.
"However, there is some insensitivity and there's some people who may have
thought that speaking and proclaiming their faith was an innocent way to
spread the word. Again, they have to understand this idea that something has
changed when they put that uniform on or when they work for a military
academy," he told reporters in a conference call.
The U.S. Constitution mandates a separation of church and state.
Brady's report faulted the academy for failing to accommodate "adherents to
minority beliefs," but concluded there was no "overt religious
discrimination." It found that some faculty and staff inappropriately
expressed strong religious views and Jewish cadets on campus faced
anti-Semitic comments.
The report recommended that the Air Force set new guidelines on appropriate
religious expression and provide training in religious diversity and
respect.
Resnicoff, who already has visited the campus but will work out of the
Pentagon, promised to help provide guidance on religious expression,
although "not a cookbook necessarily that says you can do this here and you
can't do this here."
He said his work initially will focus on the academy, but he would provide
advice applicable to the entire Air Force and address every four-star
general in the Air Force.
Resnicoff has served as national director of inter-religious affairs for the
American Jewish Committee advocacy group. Before becoming a chaplain, he
served as an officer in the Vietnam War. Years later, he was involved in the
creation of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington.
Capt. James Cunningham, an Air Force spokesman, said Resnicoff was not
picked because he is Jewish.
"He was hired because of his credentials. He was selected because he has
inter-religious and military experience," Cunningham said.
A team from Yale Divinity School said in April it found evangelical
Christian proselytizing commonplace on campus, and noted "stridently
evangelical themes" by staff. The team described a campus chaplain telling
cadets they would "burn in the fires of hell" if they were not born-again
Christians.
Haaretz, "Rabbi to advise U.S. Air Force Academy on religion", 28 June 2005.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/592992.html
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Cheers
Aleks 

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