The sad truth is that it’s just too late to do anything about it. Our worship has turned the flag into a powerful egregore and it will SMITE ALL THOSE WHO OPPOSE IT. Can science and reason and ethics SMITE YOU WITHE THE FURY TO 10000 BOMBS? I thought not, and that makes them wrong. We can’t do anything about it or the flag will DEVOUR OUR SOULS AND RAIN DEATH UPON OUR LANDS. Upside is that if we torture enough homeless people it might bless us with a mcdonalds