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* The Salvation Army is commonly seen as a general Protestant charity. However, they are this trope: a church organized along military lines, although the denomination isn't devoted to warfare, but rather aggressively trying to end poverty and help their fellow man.
* [[wikipedia:1838 Mormon War|The Mormon War]]. Joseph Smith Jr. was once the leader of the militia (especially noteworthy is [[wikipedia:Zion's Camp|Zion's Camp]] ) and also the prophet and leader of the LDS church. After Smith's assassination when Brigham Young was prophet and leader of the LDS church they organized the [[wikipedia:Mormon Battalion|Mormon Battalion]] which is the only religious military unit in United States history and was part of the Mexican-American war.
* [[Sikhism]] is famous for this aspect. They express it in a more publicly accepted fashion
* Many Churches, Synagogues, or other similar religious institutions have a faux-paramilitary youth group like the scouts or some kind of copycat. This is a laughably innocent downplaying, not laughably because it is funny (it can be a splendid way to associate good conduct with esprit de corps in young people's minds)but because of the fact that it is classed with this trope. But technically it does belong.
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