From the News Vault: How Christian Nationalism Spread in the United States Military

(October 24, 2023)

Religion Unplugged: As tensions between Moscow and Washington, D.C. rise along the Ukrainian border, an officer responsible for some of the most powerful weapons in the U.S. arsenal tells his men that he knows how to respond to the situation because he has seen it all before — in the Book of Revelation.

While the scenario sounds like the plot of a Tom Clancy novel, this is no work of fiction, according to Mikey Weinstein, a former air force officer who is the founder and head of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation.

For Weinstein, it is just one example of the problematic rise in Christian nationalism over the past few years. His organization looks at issues of religious freedom in the military and takes on cases in which soldiers feel their religious liberties have been infringed.

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