This works will serve to some extent as an exploration of the following inquiries: to what degree can America’s response September 11th and the ongoing culture of commemoration be considered in terms of religion? As in, to what degree can the nation’s response to the attacks be considered a religious phenomenon? That examination lends itself to the larger debate concerning the validity and parameters of civil religion on the whole: at what point does nationalism or patriotism intersect or become congruent with religious phenomena, or, is America’s response to the attacks a civil phenomena borrowing religious language or a religious phenomena in occurring in a civil context? Here, the logical insufficiencies of the current rhetoric of civil religion--which oscillate around Robert N. Bellah’s conclusions concerning that which is wholly other--will be identified and a more secure method, framed around Weberian conceptions of theodical modes, by which the events of September 11 will be analyzed will be proposed and defended. The proposed method will prove the events and responses to them not only religious by merit of engaging with or proximity to Christian tropes and parlance, but by means of adherence to a thoroughly defened Weberian model that identifies and qualifies religiosity at its core.