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well the opening bit, which i quoted as a teaser for the main article--which you can get to via the link--are quite different from each other. if all there was to it was the opening paragraphs, i would agree with you scout--but i also probably wouldn't have quoted it because i wouldn't have found much to talk about really. the bulk of the article has more to do with the history, extent, organizational infrastructure and effects of the opening up of (largely) protestant fundamentalisms to the military. if you read that part, then the opening paragraph is less a factoid than an opening move that one can read in the context of this larger situation/relationship.
and the relationship is really quite problematic---ultra-reactionary, debilitating in it's bizarre-o modes of conflating religious and secular (political, military in particular) texts, encouraging of a number of forms of bigotry, and--worse--operating with seemingly no way for adherents to see what they're doing in a self-reflexive way. the other problem really is what, if anything, can be done about this if you accept the outlines of the analysis....
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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