After reading my recent LRC article, “Think, Christian,” Don Bacon of the Smedley Butler Society reminded me of this statement of General Butler’s from chapter three of War is a Racket: In the World War, we used propaganda to make the boys accept conscription. They were made to feel ashamed if they didn’t join the army. So vicious was this war propaganda that even God was brought into it. With few exceptions our clergymen joined in the clamor to kill, kill, kill. To kill the Germans. God is on our side…it is His will that the Germans be killed. And … Continue reading Religious War Propaganda