The military newspaper Stars and Stripes reports that a new religion has been born in Iraq. A whole new religion! It is called Americantology.

Invented by a Marine deployed in Fallujah (Company C, 1st Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment), this religion’s chief symbol is the American flag, its only priest wears a civil war cap (blue: this is a yankee unit that calls itself “New England’s Own”), and its liturgy consists entirely of patriotic music, generously defined: “The National Anthem, Anchors Aweigh and the Marine Corps Hymn … Bruce Springsteen, Toby Keith, Neil Diamond, AC/DC … Lee Greenwood, and Ray Charles.”
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