So help me God dropped !

[Áine]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/sep/17/air-force-removes-so-help-me-god-requirement-from-/I

[trottigy]

 

Members of the U.S. Air Force will no longer be required to say “so help me God” during their enlistment oath.

A legal review of rules that required the phrase occurred after the American Humanist Association threatened to sue on behalf of an atheist airman. The unnamed airman at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada was denied re-enlistment Aug. 25 after crossing the phrase out of the oath.

Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/sep/17/air-force-removes-so-help-me-god-requirement-from-/#ixzz3Dg7zDz8U 

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The Army, Navy and Marine Corps all give enlistees the option to say “so help me God.”

Edited September 18, 2014 by trottigy

[shali]

Not terribly surprising.  What is surprising is that the line "one nation under God" is still in the United States pledge of alligence. And that "in God we trust" is still on the money.  I expect these things will be changed too in the not too distant future.