A couple of nights ago, I appeared on HuffPost Live with my friends Jason Torpy and John Figdor to talk about the role of atheist chaplains at schools and in the military. The segment starts about a minute in:

Conclusion: Humanist Chaplains are awesome, even if you’re not a fan of the “C” word.

“Call of Duty,” “Ghost Recon,” “Band of Brothers,” and a long list of other video games glorify warfare and put players in the position of killing and laying out destruction. Putting aside for a moment the ethical implications of that, let’s ask who’s left out?

The Chaplains, of course.

So now, the Army has contracted the company Engineering and Computer Simulations to tackle the task of including the chaplain perspective in warfare video games:

Blake Page, the president of the West Point Secular Student Alliance, has been making headlines this week after he wrote on Huffington Post that he was resigning from the famed military school six months prior to graduation because he “could no longer be part of a culture that promotes prayers and religious activities and disrespects nonreligious cadets.”