Concentrating on belief rather than on character leads some people -- be they atheist or religious -- to get stuck on the training rules and miss the whole point of "boot camp." They never get their "eagle, globe, and anchor" emblem and graduate. It's as if there were platoons of recruits stuck on Paris Island who had never graduated and who, now as crazy old men, are still marching around yelling cadence, having mistaken the training phase for being Marines. Rifle drill and doing a perfect port arms are seen by this lost platoon of fundamentalist recruits as the end point, not a step along the road.
Patience With God, p. 181
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