Eli Clifton recently spoke with Weinstein about 'Operation Straight Up," and the Pentagon's growing coziness with fundamentalist evangelical religious groups.
IPS: What is it about the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs that has made it a breeding ground for Christian Dominionists?
MW: Well, first we thought it was that there was this nexus of what I refer to as the "Protestant Vatican" -- in fact many people refer to it as that. Colorado Springs has over 100 of this nation's largest evangelical fundamentalist Christian organisations centred right there for some reason. Just like a moth to a flame these organisations have been attracted there. That was our initial theory before we found out that this imperious contagion of constitutional triumphalism, this fanatical Dominionist Christianity had swept like a tsunami all the way through all 737 US military installations that the Pentagon admits that we have -- but it's really closer to a thousand -- in 132 countries around the world. Seventy of those are in Europe of and 11 of those house nuclear weapons
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