Weinstein and Aslan, Not so fast, Christian soldiers, Los Angeles Times, 8/22/2007
August 29, 2007 6:50 am Christian Right and the MilitaryLos Angeles Times: Not so fast, Christian soldiers
Last week, after an investigation spurred by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, the Pentagon abruptly announced that it would not be delivering “freedom packages” to our soldiers in Iraq, as it had originally intended.
What were the packages to contain? Not body armor or home-baked cookies. Rather, they held Bibles, proselytizing material in English and Arabic and the apocalyptic computer game “Left Behind: Eternal Forces” (derived from the series of post-Rapture novels), in which “soldiers for Christ” hunt down enemies who look suspiciously like U.N. peacekeepers.