One of the tactics used by the Christian Right in recent years has been to set up parallel institutions which, over time, can attack and supplant more liberal or secular institutions they wish to take over. They achieved success with the Southern Baptist Convention and are actively working on this in education, science, and other fields. Could they be doing the same with the military?
Katherine Yurica thinks that they are and writes:
According to the plan proposed by Paul Weyrich, the founder of the Free Congress Foundation, to secure the success of the hard right’s control and domination of the American culture, the subversives must “develop a network of parallel cultural institutions existing side-by-side” with the cultural institutions of America. Eric Heubeck, the author of Mr. Weyrich’s manual wrote: “Our movement will be entirely destructive, and entirely constructive. We will not try to reform the existing institutions. We only intend to weaken them, and eventually destroy them. We will endeavor to knock our opponents off-balance and unsettle them at every opportunity. All of our constructive energies will be dedicated to the creation of our own institutions...”
The political movement has been called by many names, but none is so descriptive as “Dominionism,” the political drive cloaked with religious terms, to dominate and control American institutions, the American government, and the American culture by “Christians” of the hard right. This article will reveal how the military, as an institution, is being infiltrated with an eye at control by the dominionists. If the idea of a coup seems too absurd to some, let us not forget that it’s been thought about and written about by at least one military man in a brilliant story published in the military journal Parameters, Winter 1992-1993. Lt. Col. Charles J. Dunlap, Jr. wrote “The Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012.”
Yurica goes on to detail some very interesting — and disturbing — connections between Lt. Gen. William G. “Jerry” Boykin, Abu Ghraib, Christian Dominionists, the military's chaplain training, and much more. I'm not in a position to evaluate just how true all of the claims are and, hence, the soundness of the conclusions. I don't want to act like a conspiracy theorist because, in my experience, so-called conspiracies are often best explained by simply incompetence.
Nevertheless, the connections outlined are troubling enough to merit some closer attention on the part of everyone.
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Story about American soldiers being tortured by the American military.
American Inquisition indeed.