Saturday, September 14, 2013

Inside the Military's Campaign to Make Its Soldiers Christian

Evangelism is firmly entrenched in American military culture. It pervades several aspects of military life, and each of these -- from the social exclusion of nonbelievers, to the influence of evangelism on access to military resources, to the toxic fusion of national security objectives with religious terminology -- warrants serious consideration. For all the honor and respect we give our soldiers, we certainly don't hold some of the ideas they defend -- namely, the separation of church and state -- in very high regard.

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