Have your religious beliefs (or lack thereof) affected your life in the military? Has your career or personal life been affected?

Yes. Particularly by those of fundamentalist Christian ideologies. When a superior runs down the line to ask everyone's faith - and gets to me and they find out I had no professed religious beliefs - and THEN they loudly announce that they found the "volunteer" for Christmas duty... and every Sunday... and Holy Week... and when I went to IG and saw the Creche on their front counter and was told to shut up and pull the duty...

It happened many times during my career.

When and Where I served Religion was pretty much a Non-Issue. If you are any kind of Conservative, Orthodox Faith, US Navy is probably not the place for you. The Sailors that I served with were not a very religious group.

I do not wear my religion on my sleeve. I livestock farm and usually have mud, manure, and "other stuff" on me unless I'm specifically doing something other than farm errands in town. Even then, I am usually in Carhartt's bibs and steel toes and that's the level of formal attire at our church. It would be fair to say I look like a well-groomed, junkyard dog. The only public display of faith anyone would notice is that My wife and I, my daughter and son-in-law and grandchildren say grace before any meal or snack, at home or out. I've never felt discriminated against. I have had people say that I'm not anything like they expected when the first met me. The only question I've asked is "Am I better or worse than my first impression?" The only religion related answer I've received is that "For a religious person your much smarter, nicer, and more intelligent than I expected."