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NEWS:For Gods and Country

TITLE:For Gods and CountryThe Army Chaplain Who Wanted to Switch to Wicca? Transfer Denied.
LINK:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/18/AR2007021801396.html
EXCERPT:"I realized so many innocent people are dying again in the name of God," Larsen says. "When you think back over the Catholic-Protestant conflict, how the Jews have suffered, how some Christians justified slavery, the Crusades, and now the fighting between Shiite and Sunni Muslims, I just decided I'm done. . . . I will not be part of any church that unleashes its clergy to preach that particular individuals or faith groups are damned."

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