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KillingAndKindess
joined 2 years ago
Sometimes, sometimes not. It depends on the day.
And sadly no, I come from a less enlightened country. Nobody here likes black licorice it seems.
A chaplain position has no religious requirement, and every chaplain must be accepting and work with every religion without discrimination.
Now, obviously not every person will view them as a viable spiritual leader for their specific faith, but there is only so much that is possible.
Idk why, but it seems to help my dyslexia. ¯\(ツ)/¯
....black licorice
Sue me
And you don't understand mocking. Or that I'm not a bro, which is fair since most internet users trend male.
A phrase my guardian used growing up and has unfortunately stuck with me as my initial response, my apologies.
The full phrase I think is "Thats like a pot calling a kettle black" or something like that. And my regrettable and curt response was "we are alike, and reading your comment has upset me in that I interpretated it with the implication that we are not."
Chaplains were at one time the Christian Soldier, giving last rights and leading prayer basically.
The role is no longer a religious role, but the title has remained. They now function entirely in a multi-cultural/Multi-Faith/Non-Religious role. Essentially they are there to be emotional/spiritual support to anyone who needs it. If I'm not mistaken, they all are trained in some variety of counseling/therapy.
There has been major progress in allowing that role to become what it is.
Ideally, there would be no war and no need for soldiers.
But we live on earth, and while we can,and must, continue to work towards that ideal, the fact remains that, in this moment, there are many people who are enlisted.
Many of these people enlisted because they came from families/areas that have generations of trauma and oppression, and the military was their ticket out. These broken people are often lucky to have ever received any kind of 3rd party mental health care. Add to it the trauma of combat on behalf of a government they don't necessarily even want, and you have a shitstorm of emotions to wade through.
Complain about the MIC, the political greed, and the assholes who join and abuse their fellow man. But for fucks sake, have the mental fortitude to hold a bit of complexity when judging a situation.
Pot? Kettle, Black.
You are clearly unaware that chaplain are not preachers, but please continue your simplicism.
Nevermind that this role is basically a deployable mental health professional and the only MHP that many of these unfortunate souls have access to.
I swear, this all or nothingness is just rotting to see. Maybe we do need to nuke ourselves.
Proper!