This is a really cool story

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Two things Navy SEALS are always taught:
Keep your priorities in order
Know when to act without hesitation
A college professor, an avowed atheist and active in the
ACLU, was teaching his class. He shocked several of his
students when he flatly stated that once and for all he was
he shouted:
"God, if you are real, then I want you to knock me off this
platform. I'll give you exactly 15 minutes!!!!!"
The lecture room fell silent. You could hear a pin drop.
Ten minutes went by.
"I'm waiting God, if you're real knock me off this
platform!!!!"
Again after 4 minutes, the professor taunted God,saying,
"Here I am, God!!! I'm stil! l waiting!!!"
His count down got down to the last couple of minutes when
a SEAL, just released from the Navy after serving in
Afghanistan
and Iraq and newly registered in the class, walked up to the
Professor.
The SEAL hit him full force in the face, and sent the Professor
tumbling from his lofty platform. The Professor was out cold!!
The students were stunned and shocked. They began to
babble in confusion. The SEAL nonchalantly took his seat in
the front row and sat silent. The class looked at him and fell silent.....waiting.
Eventually,
the professor came to and was noticeably shaken. He looked at the SEAL in the front row. When the professor regained his
senses and could speak he asked:
What the hell is the matter with you?! Why did you do that!?"
God was really busy protecting America's soldiers, who are
protecting your right to say stupid crap like that and act like an
idiot!!!
So he sent me!!"
One Nation Under God!
 
I respect your beliefs and your right to express them, but I also expect my beliefs to be respected. It just does not seem right to make up a story putting stupid words in an atheist's mouth to criticize him, you probably would not like it if I made up a story of a Christian saying something stupid and being harmed for trusting a God that never showed up to help him.

Are there no atheists in the US military ?, who protect your rights too.

Luis
 
probably would not like it if I made up a story of a Christian saying something stupid and being harmed for trusting a God that never showed up to help him.
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Happens everyday.. wouldnt bother me.. I think it falls under one of the amendments.. too each his own ;) Or something like that..

But hey .. it's just a story no need to get upset or be offended by it..
 
Don Luis said:
I respect your beliefs and your right to express them, but I also expect my beliefs to be respected. It just does not seem right to make up a story putting stupid words in an atheist's mouth to criticize him, you probably would not like it if I made up a story of a Christian saying something stupid and being harmed for trusting a God that never showed up to help him.

Are there no atheists in the US military ?, who protect your rights too.

Luis
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Settle down and remember what forum you're in otherwise I'm moving this thread to the Political Arena. I have heard this story as well and I doubt jefff came up with it.
 
;) yep I got it in my email .. I didn't write it .. Just thought it was a neat story
~Jeff
 
Do me a favor and keep copy-pasted crap like this to a minimum. 9 times out of 10 they're pure BS and probably chain mail pass-alongs. I'm sure we all hate getting them in our inboxes and we don't need to read it here as well.
 
Will do .. very very few I feel are worthy of passing along though .. so you wont have to say that twice. and probally are made up BS but this was a pretty good one I thought..
 
Not a true story. It's a joke. I've heard several variations of it over the past couple of years.

I still enjoyed it though.
 
It's really a well told story. Unfortunately, it's the sort of story that works well within a group of like-minded people. When it's thrown out in front of a more diverse group, it's going to be seen as insulting by outsiders.

That's why this sort of thing works so well as email, when you send it to friends who think the way you do. You have to be careful bringing up us-and-them stories here, though, because the antagonism it causes is unnecessary.

Rewrite the story as a professor declaring that military or former military personnel are all baby-killers. A recently discharged SEAL gets up and punches him in the face. SEAL goes to jail ...

Even sure he's doing God's work, a SEAL who punches a professor belongs in jail.

I don't know what kind of training SEALs get for this sort of situation, but I remember in USAF basic training in 1965 we were carefully taught that we were now American fighting men ... and that meant we were not to fight with other American fighting men, or the fighting men of allied nations, or those of other nations where we might be stationed, or with civilians anywhere, under ANY circumstances other than under direct orders to do so.

Which is why, the first time I read this story (years ago), I winced.
 
They even club their babies in Canada. I thought you guys had a little more class than that. :footinmou
 
Esav Benyamin said:
They even club their babies in Canada. I thought you guys had a little more class than that. :footinmou
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We have class, it's the Norwegians and Danish Eskimo's; they club seals and hunt whales. We just take them to rave parties.
 
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