GR 'Streets' (death and/or afterlife)

[Terrance]

jbor wrote:
> 
> >>>> I think we can mostly agree that
> >>>> organised religion cops a bad rap in Pynchon's work, irrespective of
> >>>> personal beliefs.
> >>
> >> on 19/4/03 9:35 AM, Terrance at lycidas2 at earthlink.net wrote:
> >>
> >>> An example?
> >>
> >> Sure. Christian chaplains, "working for the army", preaching about salvation
> >> and redemption and sending soldiers out to their deaths. It's grotesque.
> >
> > And he works for the army. So is the army the organized religion is this
> > example?
> 
> Of course not. These "army chaplains" (not "he", it's an *organisation*) are
> "working for the army".

What is the organized religion in this example?