Gods, Generals, Satan, And Jews

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Two names were in the news last week for inciting religious controversies. You probably heard about one and probably missed the buried stories about the other.

The man whose story you’re most likely to know is Army Lt. General William G. Boykin. He’s currently the deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence. He’s charged with supervising the search for terror targets Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar. But in his broader war on terror, in Boykin’s words, “the enemy is a guy named Satan.”

Boykin has quite a track record as holy warrior (we know about it thanks to journalist and military analyst William Arkin, who has written several pieces on Boykin for the L.A. Times). Boykin is an active Christian who told an Oregon congregation this June that Osama, Saddam and Kim Jung Il hate the U.S. “because we’re a Christian nation. We are hated because we are a nation of believers.”

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/10/21/opinion/meyer/main579135.shtml