The intense fog of war makes it almost a survival imperative to dehumanize the enemy. In World War II, we called the Germans krauts and during the Vietnam War we called the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese gooks. It's easier to shoot a kraut than a Lutheran, and its easier to lob a grenade into a foxhole of gooks than Buddhists. Perhaps forgivable are lapses of soldiers in times of war, but Christians never have an excuse for dehumanizing an adversary in the public area of civic discourse. Johnson missed one.
Religion is also a flophouse for scoundrels and escapees from the lunatic asylum.
I present as exhibit A, the Rev. Fred Phelps. Collectively the Plelps Klan forms a Waco-like compound of Branch Phelpians. Phelps, as homosexual-baiter, also has disbarment from the practice of law on his list of credentials, and at least 7 of his brood possess law licenses and use them like uzis. As if raising a pack of lawyers wasn't enough to scar the community and demonstrate his genetic degeneracy, Phelps leads the band of Phelpians on excursions around the country to demonstrate and picket anywhere homosexuals gather. However, Phelps has received recent notoriety for showing up at the Wyoming funeral of Matthew Shepard, the young homosexual man beaten to death by two thugs.