Read the passage from "Church" by Tim O'Brien.
"What about you?" Dobbins said.
"How?"
"Well, you carry that Bible everywhere, you never hardly swear or anything, so you must-"
"I grew up that way," Kiowa said.
"Did you ever-you know-did you think about being a minister?"
"No. Not ever."
Dobbins laughed. "An Indian preacher. Man, that's one I'd love to see. Feathers and buffalo robes." Kiowa lay on his back, looking up at the ceiling, and for a time he didn't speak. Then he sat up and took a di from his canteen.
"Not a minister," he said, "but I do like churches. The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit there, you're in a forest and everything's really quiet, except there's still this sound you can't hear."
"Yeah."
"You ever feel that?"
"Sort of."
Kiowa made a noise in his throat. "This is all wrong," he se
"What?"
"Setting up here. It's wrong. I don't care what, it's still a ch Which central ideas is expressed through this dialogue?
• Kiowa believes that religious soldiers are not viewed kindly by the others in the unit.
• Kiowa believes that Christian religion and Native American practices have similar rituals.
• Kiowa believes that churches are holy, and it is wrong to bring war into one.