Chris Rodda of the Military Religion Freedom Foundation (MRFF) applauds the fact that GQ has helped further expose "Donald Rumsfeld's Bible verse riddled Worldwide Intelligence Update cover sheets," which, as accurately expressed by GQ, "represented a mixing of Crusades-like messaging with war imagery," and that "had become routine."
If is unfortunate, however, that GQ also positions their coverage as revelatory. In fact, the MRFF has been monitoring such Christianist excesses in the military for years.
Rodda also notes that:
Jeff Sharlet's eye opening article, "Jesus killed Mohammed: The crusade for a Christian military," in the May issue of Harper's Magazine, clearly sparked a sudden interest in a battle that MRFF has been fighting for years....
You can listen to this audio file of The Leonard Lopate Show's broadcast featuring a segment of Jeff Sharlet discussing his article.
Chris Rodda provides a list of links to her articles of the past several months about "our military's 'holy war....'"
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