With God on Our Side: One Man's War Against an Evangelical Coup in America's Military is a book by Michael Weinstein, founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, about fundamentalist Evangelical Christian influence in the United States Military and its institutions. A major contention of the book is undue privilege given to the organization Christian Embassy in access to military facilities and use of military personnel in its promotions.
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