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I need help understanding religion in the book "Thing they Carried." First, I would like to know how the experience of war can be a religious experience for those who are involved in the fighting? Second, I want to know how war, while it may a religion experience, is not a religion by definition?

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The expert examines the book "Thing they Carried". How the experience of war can be a religious experience for those who are involved in the fighting is determined. Also, how war is not a religion by definition is provided.

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1) Just like religion, the phrase, "the things they carried', signifies the need for personal responsibility and also a sense of uncertainty, a knowledge which makes a person feels that there is a greater purpose of life, that death is certain and whatever we do on this earth, is all going to be accounted for, our virtues and our ...

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