Is the Salvation Army saving anyone?

Not me, it doesn't.

That's because if I ever get a job with them (which I certainly consider, because, at the end of the day, it serves the best cause of all- helping others), my chances of getting a job with another charity after that are considerably reduced. Are you asking why? Because all employers these days are talking about equal opportunities, and want you - their employee, to be ready to treat everybody equally, regardless of their faith, race, colour or ...ideas!

Are they really going to expect someone who has worked for an organisation like the Salvation Army to be aware of "equal opportunities"? I should think not, because to have worked for the Salvation Army in the first place means that you have to agree with this and this and this.

I am a Christian myself and I believe in something (call it God or Supreme Power or whatever you like) but I like to think that I am intelligent enough to recognise that what's between me and my God stays between us, and what I do and the way God punishes or doesn't punish me for my actions is a personal and intimate thing, and no Army (whether it brings salvation or not) can tell me that only God is sovereign over life and death. God is related to each of us individually and what works for me and my God might not have anything to do with the Salvation Army God.

And even if it did, how do they know what God wants? Did they ever speak to him/her? Or they're just relying on what some strangers wrote a few thousands years ago in a book they call the Bible, when they realised how easy would be to control the world if you pretend to speak in the name of God?

But anyway, this God debate is better left for another time. What I'm trying to say now is that if a future recruiter sees from my CV that I worked for the Salvation Army - a very profound and rigid Christian organisation, they'll ask themselves whether I have the flexibility and the appropriate interpersonal skills to work in a new position that will require of me to moderate and contain my Christian beliefs, as they might offend people of a different or no religion at all. And as I said, that would reduce my chances of getting a job in the future.