President Obama just announced that we are sending about 100 U.S. troops to Africa to help hunt down the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army. The Wikipedia article on the Lord’s Resistance Army says that the group is based on apocalyptic Protestant Christianity. It is led by Joseph Kony, who proclaims himself the “spokesperson” of God sent to earth to establish a theocratic state based on the Ten Commandments. Sound familiar?
The LRA is accused of widespread human rights violations, including murder, abduction, mutilation, sexual enslavement of women and children and forcing children to participate in hostilities.
But, you know… God told them, so….