The story has come out that the Air Force has removed God from the the several of the Rapid Capabilities Office.  They changed the motto from “Doing God’s Work with Other People’s Money” to just “Doing Miracles with Other People’s Money.”

Let me explain to the morons behind this decision why they are morons.

God, in American government, is the intangible thing behind the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God [i.e., morality].  I don’t suppose that phrase is particularly meaningful to the US Air Force, since, after all, there were no airplanes in 1776, so no Air Force, so the phrase isn’t especially germane.

The character of that intangible thing isn’t too important for governmental purposes.  It is simply enough that we recognize that there are depths of reality that we don’t understand, and that historically we attribute those things to God.  A hurricane for example is considered an act of God.  We know that hurricanes are physical phenomena, but where they appear and the things they do are too complex to predict, so we attribute their existence to God.

That understanding of God is a foundation of American government, and it has been since July 4, 1776.

This religion-neutral recognition of God is a type of deism.  I’ve said before that America is a deist nation, and I’ve explained briefly above why that is.

People are religious by nature.  We acknowledge that fact by not just allowing personal religious beliefs, but encouraging them.  As Jefferson pointed out, religion is a great facilitator of public virtue.

When a government denies permission to its citizens to recognize God, public virtue is smothered.  That’s what this act of immense stupidity comes down to.  Certain ideologues in the US government want to throw a wet blank on public virtue, so they smother God under false claims of separation of Church and State.

Deism, as I’ve pointed out before, is not a religion.  It is a way of recognizing the unknowable source of all things.  It is an acknowledgement of that part of the human psyche that looks for something greater than itself to guide it through life’s chaos.  Some people have tried to make a religion of Deism and failed.  It isn’t a religious concept.  It is a way of addressing abstraction and encouraging human virtue.  There is no religion involved.  It is just God given human nature.  Those morons must really have it in for God, and humanity.

So which is more religious, the idea of God as a way of attributing the unexplainable, or the idea of miracles?  Miracles are a religious things.  A deistic understanding of God is religion neutral.  So what the morons have done is replace the non-religious idea of God with the very religious idea of miracles, all in the name of preventing collusion between religion and state.

What idiots.

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