God's Armed Forces

Henry at Crooked Timber finds an unsettling connection between the apologized-for-but-not-retracted Newsweek story and the stories coming out of the Air Force Academy that indicate it's becoming the next evangelical war college.

Our armed forces are the visible arms of our nation's growing empire. The fact that those forces may be growing more Christian fundamentalist and less tolerant of non-Christian faiths while our empire expands further and further into non-Christian nations is a dangerous mix.

Related note: In the Townhall link above, the appropriately named Tony Blankley spews out a doozy of an opening sentence:

The latest proposed victim in our struggle against terrorism is Army Lt. General William G. "Jerry" Boykin, recently named Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence. [emphasis, you know]

Such is the state of Christian victimhood these days -- victimized, yet promoted.