Ethics

Rodda on Military Proselytizing

By Ed Brayton

My friend Chris Rodda has a long piece at the Huffington Post about just how pervasive the problem of proselytization is in the military. She points to groups like Campus Crusade for Christ's Military Ministry, which bluntly says that their goal is to turn soldiers into "government-paid missionaries for Christ" to "transform the nations of the world through the militaries of the world."

They train their people to target young people in boot camp when they are most vulnerable and open to authority:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on June 05, 2008 (boomark / email).