One Nation Under God ?
posted in Rantings, fathers |We meditate on the transcendental Glory of the Deity Supreme, who is inside the heart of the earth, inside the life of the sky and inside the soul of the Heaven. May He stimulate and illuminate our minds. Lead me from the unreal to the Real. Lead me from darkness to Light. Lead me from death to immortality.
This was the nondenominational prayer being spoken by Reverend Rajan Zed before first the US House, and then the California Senate. He was interrupted several times during his prayer at the US House, but his prayer in Sacramento was uninterrupted.
However, Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association, told the San Francisco Chronicle that it remains a mystery to whom Zed was praying.
“I don’t know if he even knows who he’s praying to. We’re not opposed to the ability of people to worship their own gods or god, but when it comes to our civil government … it’s always been the recognition of the God of the Bible. Every religion is not equal. That’s my belief. That’s logic.”
Nice. I refuted the whole “that’s my belief, that’s logic” argument in sophomore philosophy; it can’t be both logic and belief. I have a somewhat more generous view now, some twenty years later. But the “our civil government only recognizes the Judeo-Christian god” turn of phrase turns my stomach.
