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Thou Shall Kill
The vehement evangelism described in Jeff Sharlet’s excellent report on religion in the military [”Jesus Killed Mohammed,” May] is aligned with a broader concern of military commanders that Sharlet never states outright: controlling the troops. Whether the focus of military evangelism is Mohammed or Jesus, both Al Qaeda and the Pentagon are fully aware of the power of religious belief in producing unquestioning killing machines. The jihadist and the Christian soldier both need to believe that even if their human commanders are fallible, their ultimate commander is not.
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