What could possibly go wrong with a scheme to introduce tens of thousands of young, stressed out soldiers fighting a guerrilla war in a Muslim country to a particularly bloody-minded brand of aggressively evangelical apocalyptic Christianity?

http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/1722

http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/1723
Onward Christian soldiers!
It’s not just Iraqis, or even Muslims. Christian militarism has been getting along just fine for centuries now, even turning on each other when there was no non-Christian enemy to bring to Jesus at the point of a sword. When it comes to war, Christian militarists – I also like the term Christian fascists, and just invented (I think) Xianmilitarists © – can quote Jesus as readily as Islamists can quote Mohammed.

I have come to cast fire upon the earth…

…I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.

…whoever has no sword is to sell his coat and buy one.”

The ellipses show there’s context that Xianmilitarists prefer to elide. Context goes by the board, too, when they sing (disclaimer: I used to sing this, too - one of my faves):