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who will kill abortion doctors or bomb clinics (while planting secondary charges to attack the responders to the first) or Christians that invaded the Levant and their other “Crusades” and their modern Crusader mentality that is being pushed in our military academies (and here and  here ).  Or the Christian-based Antisemitism  that was virtually written into the New Testament and the Jewish belief that they are God’s chosen people with their “This land is mine, God gave this land to me

taken-over by fundamentalists and turned into a Madrassa for Christian "warriors." Read about it here. Now that's scary. Here's what Republican, former Reagan-administration official and Academy alumnus M. Weinstein had to say about the issue in a 2007 OpEd.

Recent claims that Christianists are taking over are usually no more than expressions of shock that general cultural Christianity is taking a while to fall apart completely, but this, this, and this, on the growing influence of evangelical Christianity in the military, seems different. An effective imperial army needs a soldiers' religion--the cult of Mithras or Islam or whatever--that tells the troops why they should accept discipline,

hallelujahs and amens by the evangelical clergy. I later learned from Air Force Academy chaplain MeLinda Morton, a Lutheran who was forced to observe from the choir loft, that no priest, rabbi or mainline Protestant had been permitted to participate." [Truthdig] Meanwhile, "Before airmen at Minot Air Force Base, N.D., lost track of six nuclear warheads in late August, nuclear security there had eroded to such a level that instead of using orange cones and multiple official placards to distinguish racks of

fundamentalist penetration into the chaplain corps of the military. David said on stage last night that the level of indoctrination of officers is directly linked to the commssion of war crimes by US forces in the Mid East wars. Read more at http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20071107_the_cancer_from_within/CP2/ For an inside look at the Winter Soldier Investigations held ten days ago--which still have gotten virtually no corporate media notice--read World Can't Wait leader Elaine Brower's piece on Common Dreams

ThruthDig Washington Post (1) Washington Post (2) Huffington Post For anyone who would be dismissive of our irreligious men and women of the armed forces, I suggest a visit to Atheists in Foxholes.

of Christ's Air Force

by David Antoon TruthDig “I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. ...” —Oath of Office “Our mission is to educate, train, and inspire men and women to become officers of character motivated to

The Cancer From Within

is past the who-is-Huckabee stage and is examining what he stands for and why you don't really want him to be president. Continuing the evangelical theme, David Antoon takes a scary look at what has become of his alma mater, the Air Force Academy, and connects it with a larger pattern of evangelical activism in the military and in private armies like Blackwater: "The citizen-soldier military dictated by our founding fathers has been replaced with professional and mercenary right-wing Christian