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ST. LOUIS, Missouri — A Missouri Guardsman who isn’t Christian says he felt pressured to accept a free camouflage Bible during a military recruitment process in August.

The American Humanist Association has threatened to sue the Guard and the U.S. General Services Administration over the matter.

In a nine-page letter sent by email last month and first reported by the Army Times newspaper, the Humanist group alleges the government is violating the First Amendment by distributing Gideon Bibles to military recruits.

Humanists, who advocate for the separation of church and state, reject supernatural concepts. They preach the importance of human experience and truth measured by science and reason.

In an effort to spread the Christian “good news,” Gideon International claims to have distributed nearly 2 billion Bibles around the world in the past century. The Bibles in question are often easy to find at U.S. military installations.

According to the letter, the new guardsman, who hasn’t been identified, says he wasn’t comfortable with the Bibles being offered to recruits like him in July at a General Services Administration office. The office, on the 10th floor, is officially called the Military Entrance Processing Station. It’s one of 65 across the country.