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Originally Posted by Skerlnik
Soldiers have a defined, black/white worldview.
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Really? Can you explain what that might be? I'm interested
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There isn't a lot of room for grey when bullets start flying.
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That's when all the hard training comes in. It becomes an automatic response and has nothing to do with religion.
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The other soldiers are NOT going to trust that an athiest has their backs.
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Who told you that? Or is this your own view? Such a statement displays a lack of understanding of the ethos of brotherhood in a military context, especially in a combat situation. In a military unit all are brothers. Brotherhood binds. Brotherhood is strength in numbers. Brotherhood is power.
Brotherhood thinks together, acts as a unit. Brotherhood does for your brother what you would do for yourself. Brotherhood is putting other lives before your own.
If a military unit does not have this ethos and mindset, it will be be a crap unit.
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Christians don't trust atheists to be moral, righteous people in general, that's certainly going to be intensified in a military immersion context.
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I would suggest that the christians who think this way are nothing more than bigots.
BTW, I am a Royal Marine Commando of almost two decades service. I don't give a monkey's about what religion my brothers in arms are, or whether they have any religion at all. I have served with all sorts: Christians, Jews, atheists, buddhists and moslems. When the chips are down, it matters not what their beliefs are, because only one thing counts. Your friggin brothers!
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It's an Us/Them worldview, and people holding themselves different makes them into a Them.
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The only THEM is the ENEMY!!