By Victoria Manning | Restoration News
Pagan worship services are now taking place in Christian chapels on military bases around the nation. Military chaplains have become therapists and humanists rather than caring for the souls of troops and sailors.
God has a history of destroying nations who turn away from him to worship false gods.
As a Christian and military spouse of 23 years, I was shocked to see a sign advertising pagan worship services on a prominent U.S. Army base in Virginia the day after Christmas.
Expecting it to be an error, I checked the Fort Lee website—which confirmed it was real. The Army was promoting a pagan worship service at the garrison’s memorial chapel on Sundays from 0800 to 1000.
As I dug deeper, I was even more shocked to learn how deeply paganism has infiltrated our military. I discovered it has been embedded in nearly every military branch and is present on bases around the country, and even overseas.
The Fort Lee/Gregg-Adams’ religious support office advertises that they educate the community “on the beliefs and practices of various Pagan paths, their historical origins and beliefs, and modern interpretations and practices. The current educational and service schedule focuses on General Pagan Education (Paganism 101), Ethics, Spell craft and Ritual work.”
Clearly the Army is not just focused on serving existing faith beliefs of soldiers but pushing a propaganda campaign about paganism.
Fort Gordon/Eisenhower in Georgia advertises a pagan program at the Good Shepherd Chapel on Saturdays. You read that right—the base is promoting pagan rituals performed in the same chapel where Christian services are held. It seems an outside group called the Fort Gordon Open Circle leads these events. They claim to “create a welcoming and inclusive environment for individuals of diverse beliefs.”
This isn’t limited to one or two instances, either.
Fort Liberty/Bragg in North Carolina promotes Wiccan worship services. Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota endorses Wicca and Norse pagan worship in the same chapels where Christian services are held.
Buckley Space Force Base, Keesler Air Force Base, and Camp Lemonnier—a Navy expeditionary base in Djibouti—all hold pagan/Wiccan services.
In 2010, witches and other pagans even got their own $80,000 outdoor worship area at the Air Force Academy. At the time, only 3 of the 4,300 cadets identified themselves as pagans.
Chaplains Leading People Astray
War Sec. Pete Hegseth should take a hard look at the so-called chaplains in charge of spiritual leadership in the military.
According to Col. Dallas Little, lead chaplain for the Air Force’s 81st Training Wing at Keesler AFB: “The idea of working alongside fellow clergy of different faiths and ministering to constituents of all faiths and even no faith was what led me down this path.”
“To me, it is a fascinating idea to take people where they are and help them along their spiritual journey, whatever path that is. I deeply love working with different people and their diversities. I’m all for Baskin-Robbins’ many flavors,” he added with a laugh.
Caring for and ministering to the eternal souls of military service members is no laughing matter.
Col. Little is a Methodist chaplain, yet he pokes fun at the “many flavors” or beliefs. The Bible teaches that the only way to salvation and eternal life is through Jesus. If Little is teaching anything else, then he is a hypocrite and not a Christian. Little’s claim that he will take people on whatever spiritual journey they want is blasphemous.
Galations 1:6-9 says:
I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel—not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed.
Chaplains who don’t believe and instruct that Jesus is the only savior of the world should not be classified as Christian.
Hegseth Promises Change
The military now has 221 approved faith codes. These include pagan, Wicca, Seax Wicca, Gardnerian Wicca, Dianic Wicca, Heathen, Asatru Druid, atheist, agnostic, and more. While there is no indication these so-called “faith groups” have chaplains, it’s clear these anti-God entities are gaining ground.
The Continental Congress—with George Washington’s endorsement—first authorized Christian military chaplains in 1775 to minister to soldiers. In 1862, the Army authorized its first Jewish chaplains.
In 1920, the National Defense Act created “chiefs of chaplains” to direct ministries in each of the services. It wasn’t until 1994 that the military established the first Muslim chaplain. Then, in 2017, the Defense Department doubled the total faith codes to over 200.
Fortunately, War Sec. and dedicated Christian Pete Hegseth is restoring the true meaning of faith back to the chaplain corps.
In Dec 2025, Sec. Hegseth rightly pointed out that military clergy had been reduced to “emotional support officers” rather than spiritual and moral leaders. Hegseth has ordered an overhaul of the military’s Chaplain Corps, rightly pointing out that current practices alienate religious soldiers by “pushing secular humanism.”
A 2019 Defense Department report indicates 70 percent of the military members attest to be Christian, 1 percent claim an Eastern religion, and 0.4 percent are Jewish or Muslim, respectively.
Although the military is obligated to uphold the Constitution’s prohibition against establishing a national religion, it should not actively promote belief systems that undermine religious faith, including paganism and humanism.
The military also has a duty to protect the religious rights of vast majority of Christian service members, including safeguarding them from self-identified Christian chaplains who advance teachings that conflict with core Christian doctrine.
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