The devastating result is that children are brainwashed into the faith of the dominator society. They are taught to locate evil outside of themselves and to scapegoat other peoples. The double effect is loss of ability to see evil in oneself and one's own system and the violent reaction to those whose ways are different. The myth of redemptive violence appears on the large screen in the nation state and its supportive religious idolatry. Such a system cannot tolerate a real and absolute God, only a tamed one.
Religious language is used constantly by the leadership of the nation in support of violence.
It was fine men who tortured the woman we spoke to in Argentina. These men were not sadists. They had merely surrendered themselves to the idol of the state. For a nation to believe that it embodies the good is dangerous to itselfand others. Wink speaks of his love of country and the need for a more modestview by Americans of their calling from God.