Religious faith also animated the antiwar Left through mainline clergy

Evidence

THE ANTIWAR LEFT, though often disparaged by evangelicals, was in fact animated in part by religious faith. Mainline clergy vociferously condemned American war crimes and called into question the morality of the war and that of American soldiers. They expressed outrage over the use of napalm, indiscriminate bombing, search-and-destroy operations, and the scale of civilian casualties, and they didn’t hesitate to expose the brutality of American soldiers and violations of international rules of warfare. They criticized military chaplains, too, for failing in their prophetic roles, for preaching a “military religion,” and for essentially serving as “an indoctrination agent in behalf of the military.” — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 113

Categorization

• XREF: Contests the current conflation of ‘Christian’ with ‘evangelical-conservative’ — the religious antiwar left complicates the book’s own central strand claim, worth weighing as evidence in the reader’s contest of whether militant masculinity IS white evangelicalism or just a dominant strand.