When soldiers believe they are fighting with God on their side, atrocities seem to be fair game | ✍️ Roger Boyes
Roger Boyestrocities in war occur when soldiers have a sense of impunity, when they feel unobserved, when they are heady with power — and sometimes when they are convinced that they have God, any god, on their side. The alarm bells should have sounded when Kirill, the Moscow patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, prayed for victory in the “holy war” against Ukraine.
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