"and I … I’m willing to meet my Creator and answer for every shot that I took. … "

And presumably he has done so; and according to our faith there is forgiveness even for a person who, by his own account, killed 160 fellow men who were guilty (at worst) of patriotically attempting to defend their country from foreign invaders and occupiers, or otherwise were simply trying to live in their own city and had the misfortune to come within Kyle's crosshairs.

But for a Christian reviewer, and a Pastor, to characterize this movie about a war criminal as being primarily about "conflicting vocations" is to accept the film's flawed premise with a breathtaking lack of candor.

The Iraq invasion was a war crime. There is no rational counter-argument to this claim that I have heard in 13 years of debating it. It was, and remains, utterly indefensible on classical just war theory, which has been the majority position on these issues within the Lutheran tradition.

To ignore this in a review seems very wrong to me.