Why doesn’t the US Navy just deploy mental health professionals?
Religious doctrine is a shitty substitute for actual assessment.
Comment on recruiting theocracy
KillingAndKindess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
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.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
KillingAndKindess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
You are clearly unaware that chaplain are not preachers, but please continue your simplicism.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
After you. Please elaborate.
KillingAndKindess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
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.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You aren’t wrong but that is sad.
Also this is leaving me curious of us weird religions could be chaplains. Like, could we wind up with a unit of marines bitching that their chaplain is a neodruid?
KillingAndKindess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
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.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 6 months ago
I heard a story of a Protestant who preferred to use a Catholic chaplain, as they cannot break the seal of a confession unless it is in dire circumstances (eg, they confessed to raping or murdering someone)
VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
These people are so unserious about their religion it’s hilarious.
Bennettiquette@lemmy.world 6 months ago
i mean, i see nothing wrong with the “non-denominational chaplain” position itself or targeted recruitment advertising for it, aside from the underlying implication that access to mental health services for members of the armed forces is essential an afterthought.
but all that is a completely different situation than using a baptismal portrait as recruitment creative. how is that “all or nothing”?
radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’m autistic. On commonality among many autists is aggravation at witnessing unfairness. Furthermore, I can’t stand it when things are don’t finalize (e.g. a puzzle with no discernable solution or a film with an unresolved plot line in a TV series.)
Having to bear witness to this darkest of timelines and being forced to endlessly await its culminating event, the downfall of capitalism and Western civilization (which is absolutely what deserves to happen) is driving me up the fucking wall.
KillingAndKindess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Pot? Kettle, Black.
echodot@feddit.uk 6 months ago
I’m worried that you don’t know what that aphorism means, because that comment made absolutely zero sense whatsoever.
KillingAndKindess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
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.”
Bennettiquette@lemmy.world 6 months ago
angry bro up there just looking for a fight. you gave a well thought out, value-added comment and don’t deserve to be mocked for it.
KillingAndKindess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
And you don’t understand mocking. Or that I’m not a bro, which is fair since most internet users trend male.