Ethics

Chaplain Exposes Christian Diploma Mills

By Ed Brayton

In yet another revelation from recent investigations into abuses of religion in the US military, Jason Leopold has an article about a Navy chaplain with useless degrees from Christian diploma mills. This is a subject that has interested me since, about 10 years ago, a bunch of us managed to uncover the truth about Kent Hovind's "doctorate" from Patriot University, a fine educational institution located in a split-level home in Alamosa, Colorado (that led to Skip Evans getting Hovind's "dissertation" - not a copy of the dissertation, the actual dissertation itself; we know it's the original because there were pictures cut out of magazines scotch-taped on the pages).

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on March 17, 2008 (boomark / email).