Air Force base replaces Bible with generic "book of faith"

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An atheist military group is celebrating after it successfully pressured an Air Force base in Wyoming to remove the Bible from a dining table acknowledging missing or imprisoned soldiers.

As the National League of POW/MIA Families explains, the Missing Man Table recognizes soldiers absent from a dining hall because they are prisoners of war or otherwise missing in action. Every element serves a symbolic purpose, from the table’s round shape symbolizing “everlasting concern” to a Bible representing “strength gained through faith to sustain us and those lost from our country, founded as one nation under God.”

Despite this meaning and tradition, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) claims that 31 active-duty airmen stationed at F.E. Warren Air Force Base, 19 of whom were “practicing Protestants or Roman Catholics” and the remainder belonging to various other faiths or no faith, contacted them in May to express opposition to the Bible at their dining hall’s Missing Man Table (MRFF claims the number of objectors rose to 36 a month later).

MRFF founder and president Mikey Weinstein contacted the command staff of the Air Force Global Strike Command/90th Missile Wing stationed at the base, and received a promise from Col. Stacy Jo Huser to evaluate the complaint. MRFF contacted the command staff on July 15 to follow up.

“Our chaplains are purchasing a generic ‘book of faith’ on Thursday and will let me know when that book is expected to arrive,” Huser replied, according to MRFF. “Until it arrives, I’ve asked them to rotate the book placed on the table (rotate it through various faiths). Yesterday they placed the Book of Mormon on the table."