Money is "God"?Well let's look at in a linguistic sense.
The issue is the final 4 words in the enlistment oath....."So help me God".
Now in actuality the phrase is not implying that one is "swearing an oath to a god", only that one is asking help to fulfill the "oath" to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice". So in actuality if one is asking for help from a god, it all depends on ones definition of a "god". Some think money is their 'god". Yeah, Yeah I know....the term "God" as far as the oath goes refers to a religious God, but if the guy wants to stay in the military, it is not a democracy. I say tough ****.
Semantic hogwash.
We're not a theocracy (ostensibly).
We heathens will eventually defeat religious indoctrination in the military just as we're doing in public schools.
Resistance is futile!
Here's a little test I came up with many years ago:
1) Take a group of believers who claim we shouldn't resist swearing an oath to "God" because it's just a perfunctory & de minimis.
2) Replace "God" with "Allah".
3) Force same group to swear modified oath.
4) Measure percentage of fulminating fundies who bristle at the change because it imposes the wrong religion upon them.
Step 2 could also replace "God" with: "Satan", "Zeus", "Goddess"
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