content: The addition of the deistic overtones to our national identity was a bit of reactionism from the government during the Cold War towards what was initially the atheistic communism of Stalin's Soviet Russia. When Stalin realized the church was a powerful tool for societal control, he did an about face on the matter. Leaving us saddled with a burden that reinforces the notions of idiotic theocrats who think they have divine right to legislate other's lives. Of course now that the filthy hippies are in power, we have new zealots to worry about instead.