Recently released reports, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, show that the mandatory Nuclear Ethics and Nuclear Warfare session, which takes place during a missile officer’s first week in training, is led by Air Force chaplains and includes a discussion on St. Augustine’s Christian “Just War Theory.” Also included in the PowerPoint presentation is a slide containing a passage from the Book of Revelation that attempts to explain how Jesus Christ, as the “mighty warrior,” believed war to be “just.”
The presentation goes on to say that there are “many examples of believers [who] engaged in wars in [the] Old Testament” in a “righteous way” and notes there is “no pacifistic sentiment in mainstream Jewish history.”
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), an advocacy group that watches for signs of religious bias in the military, said more than thirty Air Force officers, a majority of whom describe themselves as practicing Protestants and Roman Catholics, have contacted their group in hopes of working together to have the Christian-themed teachings removed from the Nuclear Ethics and Nuclear Warfare training session.
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