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'Commandos for Christ': Kentucky pastor defends Bible School’s mock firing squad
Commandos for Christ, and the Politics of Teaching Children to Cheer ViolenceA Church Lesson in DominanceA Kentucky pastor, Dewayne Walker, defended a Vacation Bible School skit in which children were encouraged to chant “take him out, blow him up” while adults in soldier costumes performed a mock execution of a devil character with air-soft rifles. Walker later tried to flatten the backlash into “misinformation,” but the image is the point: an institution with authority over children staged ritualized violence, then asked to be treated as misunderstood.Who Held the PowerThe actual power here…
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