Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Sorthing through truth and fiction

Chris Rodda of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation has reviewed the book The Apocalypse Directive by Douglas MacKinnon. While it is a work of fiction, it is extrapolated from a backstory that (according to the MRFF) is quite true. There really is a Christian Embassy in the Pentagon and our military academies, especially the Air Force Academy in Colo. Springs, have become training grounds for Fundies, indoctrinating cadets into Team Jesus, teaching them that the military is God's ministers, angels of wrath authorized to punish those who do evil, and missionaries of the true faith to wherever our government sends them. The MRFF has documented all this but hasn't yet been able to root out all of the abuses. The book is the story of a future president, along with a general who was an Air Force Academy classmate, both now Fundie zealots, who have suffered through more terrorist attacks from everlasting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and believe that Jesus has told them to trigger the apocalypse hinted at in the book of Revelations. And to do that they have to destroy practically all of non-American civilization. Will they be stopped? Depends on whether the description of the current state of the military used as a background is a gloat or a warning.

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