So I am a Unitarian Universalist and an Army Chaplain and a Humanist. Yes, the UU requirement for education and endorsement if one of the highest. I would not have it any other way.

According to their web page you need a Masters of Divinity from an approved school
(Certainly the first two and probably all are approved schools). However your best bet might be finding a UU military chaplain (or regular UU minister) and talking to them about the ins and outs.

This chaplain decides to go bargain shopping in the garbage and finds a box full of pornographic magazines… He went ape shit.

As everyone knows, soldiers can kill and die for their country but street-legal pornography crosses the line.

I can only imagine how little respect this chaplain has for soldiers, and how arrogant he must be to place his prudish morals so high above everyone else’s. Gobsmacking.

When I was stationed at Scott AFB, there was talk about a Chaplain who breached the confidentiality of an enlisted member who confided that he had lied in his background information about some minor pot smoking as a high school student. What a jerk. Even as a non-chaplain officer I would not have tattled. I would have counseled the person to follow the dictates of their conscience rather than tattling unless it was a crime, not some minor smoking of a joint several years before.

That reminds me of a funny story about that Dbag chaplain I mentioned above. Even though I was at another battalion at the time, our whole brigade heard about this one.

So our Brigade was packing up to ship out to Kuwait then Iraq. Basically we were packing and throwing out all the stuff we had accumulated over the past several months of training. This chaplain decides to go bargain shopping in the garbage and finds a box full of pornographic magazines… He went ape shit. He first went around to all the companies trying to catch the person (or persons) who obviously didn’t speak up. He raised such a stink that the brigade chaplain had to tell him to let it go… So stupid…

Why is there a need for humanist chaplains? There are no humanists, atheists, or agnostics in the military, just many thousands practicing “no religious preference” who clearly haven’t heard enough about Jeebus yet.

I get your point, but it says “atheist” on my ID (dog) tags.

I really think pointing out that they were paying officer trainees with merits to attend his services must have bothered the Chaplain. Perhaps he was one of the good ones and not one of the intolerant ones.

When I was stationed at Scott AFB, there was talk about a Chaplain who breached the confidentiality of an enlisted member who confided that he had lied in his background information about some minor pot smoking as a high school student. What a jerk. Even as a non-chaplain officer I would not have tattled. I would have counseled the person to follow the dictates of their conscience rather than tattling unless it was a crime, not some minor smoking of a joint several years before.