Ireland: Tribunal Rules Army Discriminated Against Atheist for Not Considering Him for Chaplain Job


John Hamill

This entire Jewish program was always going to come down to an aggressive war on Christianity.

Now that everything has been set up for that purpose, the Jews are coming through and knocking it down.

Ireland, having been the last seriously Christian country in Western Europe, is a key target of this Jewish hate and destruction campaign.

Irish Times:

A prominent atheism campaigner was discriminated against by a failure to consider him for a military chaplain role, the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) has found, after rejecting the State’s argument that chaplains of “monotheistic belief” are needed to deal with religious and local leaders in sensitive conflict zones.

Witnesses for the Department of Defence argued a humanist chaplain could undo years of liaison work by army chaplains with religious fundamentalists in south Lebanon, including Hezbollah supporters, whom, it was argued, would be unlikely to accept a non-religious minister.

In a decision published on Wednesday, the WRC upheld John Hamill’s complaint of discrimination on the ground of religion against the Department of Defence, ruling that it was unlawful for the Defence Forces to recruit military chaplains solely from among Roman Catholic and Church of Ireland clergy.

An adjudicating officer found compensation was “not warranted” but ordered the Department to review its chaplaincy appointments process to “reflect and foster the diversity of members of the Defence Forces”.

At the hearing, the State noted the military had made Mass available on base during overseas missions for the 87.16 per cent of personnel who were Catholic. It said only one chaplain could be deployed at a time, and that the role of the chaplain in “force protection and counter-insurgency” in south Lebanon required a Christian, arguing that this objectively justified any differential treatment.

There are Irish soldiers in Lebanon for some reason

Frank Kennedy BL, instructed by Lorraine Williams of the Chief State Solicitor’s Office for the Department of Defence, said it was a “genuine and occupational requirement” for a military chaplain to have “first a monotheistic belief in God, and second the capacity to minister in that faith” during peacekeeping duties.

“The current Defence Forces requirements exclude all Muslims and Jews. There’s absolutely no evidence that the job has to be done by a Christian,” Mr Hamill countered at an equality hearing last year.

The tribunal heard last year that there were 15 Catholic chaplains in the Defence Forces and one from the Church of Ireland.

Giving evidence, Capt Martin McMahon, who told the hearing he had no religious beliefs, said chaplains had the military purpose of “religious leader engagement” as part of a strategy of “force protection and counter-insurgency”.

He said army chaplains had maintained links going back years with local religious figures in south Lebanon.

“Are local religious leaders more likely to engage with someone who believes in God?” Mr Kennedy asked him.

“I’ve only ever seen them interact with our chaplains. It’s hard to say how they would engage with someone who had no faith,” he said. “Quite often they tend to be a bit more traditional in their outlook.”

Capt McMahon said in the Irish Army’s area of operations, particularly in south Lebanon, there were many “fractured” religious beliefs, with people tending towards “the more fundamental aspects of their faith”.

“Do you believe that a religious chaplain of monotheistic belief helps to contribute to the safety of members overseas?” Mr Kennedy asked.

“It certainly contributes to force protection by dealings with religious leaders and local leaders,” Capt McMahon replied.

In cross-examination Mr Hamill put it to him that humanist chaplains might be better than Christians.

“In some of the villages they’re working in, particularly fundamentalist Christian villages, they would be better accepted than a humanist chaplain would be,” Capt McMahon said.

Mr Hamill asked him whether he had ever heard of western Europeans referred to as “crusaders” and put it to him that “some people would be more antagonistic to Christians than non-Christians”, to which Captain McMahon agreed.

There is no way I would concede that point. Yes, there are Moslems that dislike Christians – though I don’t think you would find many in Lebanon – but even Moslems that dislike Christians would never prefer an atheist to a Christian, ever, in any situation.

But this entire discussion is gibberish anyway. Ireland is a Christian country, and that is the end of it. Frankly, non-Christians should not be permitted to work for the government at all, in any capacity. Obviously, someone could lie about being a Christian, but in that case, they wouldn’t be able to make these arguments in favor of their anti-Christian beliefs.

Militant atheism is, frankly, simply a form of Judaism for the goyim. These people talk about Christianity in the exact same language as the Jews, and for some reason, they criticize every religion other than Judaism.

They also have the haughty “I’m better than you” attitude of the Jews, which you don’t find anywhere else. Even Moslems who look at Christians as enemies – which is a minority of Moslems – do not have this attitude.

Why are all these militant atheists fat and annoying?