Area man believes God chose to protect US troops attacking Iran

This man happens to be the Secretary of Defense or War or the Apocalypse or whatever it’s called today, which seems like a bit of a problem:

If Hegseth had said My Little Pony & Friends had done this, that would be considered frankly delusional ideation, but if he says something that is exactly as detached from reality we have to “respect his beliefs,” because . . . um, the first amendment or John Stuart Mill and John or Lou Rawls or somebody, I always get confused at this point in the argument.

I’m not a New Atheist or anything like that, because my own view is for a radical agnosticism, i.e., the assertion that we as a species are too dumb and epistemologically limited to understand the nature of the world, and that arguments for, for example, a teleological or non-teleological universe are equally plausible, which is to say equally lacking any real evidence, because for among other reasons we don’t have the faintest idea of what “the universe” — the most question-begging phrase possible — is.

Now that’s a whole lot of fancy words to say that people like Hegseth are crazy, and they don’t become any less crazy because they throw the word “God” around a lot.

We’re in trouble.