Two students sitting in a classroom: One student sneezed, and the reaction of the other was: “God bless you”.
The teacher immediately responded with: “You can’t use the name God in here, if you do it again, I’m going to refer you to the office”.
Has it gotten to the point that to say “God bless you” after a sneeze could place our children in the line of fire, where they could be expelled from school for the mention of the name “God”?
I have read, heard and witnessed those who have a problem with the name “God” on money, the use of the name in schools, or songs in schools, slogans about God written on placards and buildings in public places. The thought keeps rising up in my mind: why does a name irritate some to the point where reputations are built pursuing with vengeance the removal of the name “God’ from American documents, public places, songs sung in schools, etc.
I chuckled at my thoughts of what to switch the name “God” to in order to satisfy those who take issue with it. At first I thought of one nation under “Jehovah” and one nation under “Allah”. How about one nation under “Monkey”? Then I realized that a name is only as powerful as what one believes it represents.
It’s interesting how even those who have no religious affiliation, or interest, in the time of great crisis, the first utterance is: “Oh, God”. Haven’t quite understood why the name “God” would be a person faced with a tragedy first thoughts.
What does removing the name mean? Is it the removal from the public’s eye that’s the source of contention? Does the name “God” dictate to others what they should believe?
In looking up the dictionary meaning: God is “any of various beings conceived of as supernatural, immortal, and having power over people or nature; deity; especially a male one, an idol. A person deified or excessively honored in monotheistic religions, the creator and ruler of the universe; supreme being.”
By the use of the word “God” does that mean your God must be my God? The name “God” could be acknowledging a creator, a supreme being, not a religious affiliation, even though Christians have rallied around this act, it is not about Christianity.
Is it about removing prayer from school because it uses the name God? Or that the name “God” forces a religious affiliation?
Perhaps those who have been used to remove the name “God” may not even realize that they could be pawns in a bigger scheme. I wonder what that could be?
If God represents moral consciousness, then it is better not to have the name “God” remind one of their moral decay.
If God is creator, Supreme Being, and we want to remove that, and put a monkey in its place, in keeping with evolution. . . Oh, well. Maybe the monkey then would become the God in our lives.
If God represents forcing one to adopt a religious practice, and you don’t believe in or practice that religion, then I guess that would be a good reason to ban him.
What is really behind the attacks on the name “God” in America? I don’t know, do you?
