Evangelicals spent fifty years embedding themselves in the military before backlash emerged.

Evidence

FOR HALF A CENTURY, evangelicals had been working to strengthen the military and imbue it with evangelical values, and they’d been warmly received, particularly by evangelicals already entrenched within the armed forces. By the 2000s, however, some service members began to object to the overt proselytizing and coercive religious atmosphere they encountered within the military. The air force academy in Colorado Springs was ground zero in the battle over religious expression and coercion. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 475

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s broader argument that white evangelical identity was built through cultural institutions (military, media), not just churches. — connects to: Militant masculinity was exported from evangelical churches to the military and back — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 493; Evangelicals redirected their hero worship from clergy to the military — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 304; Evangelicals spent a half century remaking Jesus in their own militant image — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 664
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Militant masculinity was exported from evangelical churches to the military and back — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 493; Evangelicals redirected their hero worship from clergy to the military — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 304; Evangelicals spent a half century remaking Jesus in their own militant image — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 664