West Point Cadet, MRFF Client sacrifices career in noble stance defending U.S. Constitution from religious zealots
“I am making this stand in the hope that others will follow by whatever means they must. Perhaps now some of the 136 cadets, faculty and staff at West Point that are represented by the MRFF may find the courage to make themselves heard.”
– Former Cadet Blake Page
Former Cadet Blake Page tells CNN’s Soledad O’Brien
he left West Point because of Christian proselytizing.
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Thank you, Blake Page, for having the chutzpah to speak out. You are a rare individual;it speaks volumes that this has to be so in a military that prides itself on being the standard bearers for democracy.
Thank you Blake Page for confirming a decision my son, Blake Binkley, made to not apply to a U.S. Military Academy even though he’s been set and on the path to do since he was 8: Eagle Scout, changed from Spanish to Mandarin leaving I.B. high school for the university to do so and continuing after acceptance to Education Program for Gifted Youth Stanford University High School, 99th% in the nation in math, aced two semeters of Calc before senior year high school and on to multivariable diff, Linear Algebra BEFORE college, began flying gliders at age 12…to follow in the footsteps of his Dad who flies for the USAF and my Dad, his Granddad who was a Naval Aviator CDR. Both his Dad and my Dad are Christians, but my son follows my lead in questioning religion. The most religious I’ve been able to be since his birth is Buddhism after having dabbled in Christianity on and off much of my life and I even took up Judahism, the religion of my Mother’s parent, but my Mother was born in 1933 in East Germany as Hitler came to power, so Judahism was not practiced and she was raised by a grandparent to avoid deportation to a concentration camp.
My son seems to be an agnostic, maybe even atheist. We had heard rumor about the religious finaticism and bullying happenings at USAFA so, even tho his first choice, my son has been seriously considering West Point whose academics are superior to USAFA anyway concerning the Humanities which is my son’s love, as in history and philosophy and Econ and I.R., even tho a math whiz, or Annapolis Navy. Alas, the religious card, surfaced again, and my son has opted instead to apply to Princeton, Dartmouth, Williams, Pomona, Claremont Mckenna, Carlton, Swarthmore, for undergrad, (Rice was ruled out due to being in Texas and my son having to deal with Texas mentality because Rice is in Houston and only in Austin in TX might my son find NY or SF thinking). He’s opted to go secular where he can engage in a thriving, vibrant leftist community, which would not occur with a bunch of crazy Christians at a US Military academy who behave against our constitution founded on separating church and state.
If we were able to take the religion card out of war-mongering that goes on all over the world and through out history, at least nations would have to be honest about why they fight: for resources such as land, minerals, water, access to the ocean, etc.
this is really tangential, so you may not want to read:
I knew when W and Cheney and that woman spouted “weapons of mass destruction” and a badboy dictator, I immediately said , “this country has never cared about cruel dictators abroad, so what’s in it for us now to go after Iraq? Oil, and perhaps the Tigris Euphrates water – no , just the oil” Israel and the fight over land inthe Middle East is a prime example and for sure, if we were to take a bunch of Pakistani or French or German or what ever citizens and give them Texas as their new homeland, we’d have war for years just like the Palistinians are fighting for their homes and land. The mistake the U.S. and U.N. made when giving Palestinian land to Jews was to not give the Palistinians their own land, say the state of Utah or Philadelphia, or where ever, or perhaps, they should have exterminated them for the Jews to take over their land.; then we wouldn’t have had the wars over Israel all these years. Listen to Jimmy Carter and if we had , we might not have had Hurricane Katrina or Sandy and not have the Reagan economic mess: borrow, build a war machine and don’t apy for it, let the future generations deal withe massive debt and screw anyone who can’t figure out how to make a dime in this climate.
wow, you posted. just reread above, and if you got that far think about this: So, you say the Texans have a right to be mad and fight cause they were in Texas first, if we removed them for citizens from abroad. The Jews (and i am Jewish by birth) complain that the Israel was their country first, before the Palestinians. Well, the American Indians had Texas first, but Teddy Rosevelt mentality ruling the U.S. army of the day made sure to all but wipe American Indians from the face of the Earth…they used to laugh and commune as officers showed-off Indian skin lampshades…There were hardly enough Indians left to mount a resurgence and certainly with their culture also wiped out on Indian Reservations, the task impossible and the plan.
The American Indian treatment of Palistinians did not happen, at least not to the degree white men annhiliated Indians a hundred plus years ago. Palistinians were left with their culture and a bit of land.
so, when you read my post above about exterminating the Palestinians, you might have thought I was nuts and in left field, but we see from our own brief history, that this is exactly what the U.S. in it’s formative land-grab years did.
And it is wrong. Very wrong and why many of us feel guilty and are happy about Indians now raping white men with their casinos…
As I said, forget country and religion and just look at humanity: the same issues for war throughout time. Pray for an invasion from outerspace: the only thing that will bring humanity together is a common enemy, but then the landgrab, resources grab will just begin again and we’ll be back at square one with likely a formidable foe.
Instead of praying for a reality based on ‘faith’ how about not demanding more than faith regarding global warming: religious right reds(Republicans) want scientific proof for global warming but want the rest of us to believe all they say based on “faith”. Religion was invented to ease our angst and control the masses.
And what’s the biggest plague onthe planet? Humanity. We cause the disruption of nature. there is not an invention by man that has not harmed the equilbrium of the only cradle and home we have, even agrigarian culture harmed the planet. The difference then versus now is the amount of humans on the planet. We cannot sustain our polution, massacre and plunder of nature with our rising populations. Life was tolerable when the planet afforded 3 billion humans, now it’s messy and ugly at 6+billion, but soon in 2050 we’ll swarm at 9 billion. Thank heavens I’ll be dead,but what about our offspring, the very planet that bubbles more extinction of plants and animals every day. But the crazy christians have an answer: pray and copulate and God forbid a woman might want an abortion so as not to destroy her life and contribute to over population. I’ve not met an anti abortionist who wants tax dollars spent on unwanted , uncared for, uneducated, starving children in this country: Romney calls them the problemand the 47%.
I apologize for dumping my thoughts on this website, thereby likely undermining my original thought: politics, American government and its Armies should not and cannot legally be mixed with religion. If our troop in training at miltiary establishments need a little religion, then time be allotted, but not one religion pushed down their throats and untoward consequences suffered if one does not buy into the prevailing leadership religion: Christianity.
Neither should favoritism be shown for those that go along with the majority religion. How dare people claim their religion to be superior to others whether it be a Christian or Muslem sect, or any other. How ironically nice for cadets at West Point that the leaders have matured to accept all brands of Christianity otherwise we might have the Irish Catholic/Protestant wars happening right at home in our military academies.
And we wonder why the prevailing world’s religion (have the most constituents) want to terrorize us: many finatic Mulsems and others who don’t like what we did to serve ourselves with other countries’ resources by using our military CIA to prop up puppet leaders who would give us the resources we want from their countries: Shah of Iran, Sadem Huessin with Bush #1, Panama escapade, etc.
At least if we’re honest, fighting wars and doing take-overs for resources for a strong America, it’s something I could get behind and likely my son, but to add to it with the religious B.S. is over the top. It’s nice to be a citizen of the strongest and most affluent country the world has ever seen and something worth fighting for. We’ve got ours, to hell with the rest…
and sprinkle a little do-gooder action around with our military and we all sleep well at night, us U.S. citizens. Such as my son’s Dad flying a C5 Galaxy out to help the drowing Russian Sub crew or to go help out with the Indonesian Cyclone, etc.
I see why the need for the brain washing for our military leaders and why my son doesn’t want to be a part.
Blake….I think you were just in the wrong job. I hope you find what you need and are looking for…best of luck to you. I really detest having the ability to pray taken away…
If you really read the constitution…it was based on religious freedom…not anti-religous freedom. It’s not the same thing. Religion is not “B.S.” Faith is a very powerful thing…you are young. You will experience just how powerful it is someday. Until then, I will say a prayer for you.
Take care and best of luck!