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I usually manage to hide the religious folks from visibility on my Facebook page.  It saves me a lot of angst and grief.   But somehow a person from whom I would not have expected this managed to post:

Let’s see how many people on FB aren’t ashamed to show their love for God and admit that Jesus is their Savior! We need to get God back in America. If you’re not ashamed, copy and paste this in your status, I did. God Bless You and God Bless America!

“We need to get God back in America” …. ??

Ummm…  okay, let’s analyze this:the statement assumes (1) God is real, and (2) is no longer in America.

“God” is not a proven, verifiable entity or thing to begin with.   “God” is (at best) a concept, an idea, about which there is no clear definition. There is no objective of what God is.  No, seriously — you might think you know what God is or what the term means, but whichever version you put forth there’s about 2/3 of the world who would instantly DISagree, and among the remainder who might agree on the surface will debate you on the details.  NObody has the same idea about God that you have, and the odds are very good that if a god or gods is ever actually discovered in measurable, provable form, your idea of God is wayyy wrong.

But, more importantly, when you look at American demographics (or the recent ARIS numbers) you will discover that nearly 85% of the country has a belief in God.   Doesn’t matter if God is real or not, the fact that the vast majority have a belief in God, would suggest that putting God “back” in America is like putting the wet back in water.

America is not devoid of a belief in God, but will always be devoid of a clear, objective God that can be pointed to and agreed upon.   We know that America has Barack Obama — a real, tangible human person.  Not everyone likes him, and there are all manner of opinions about, but there is no doubting his existence.   There are all manner of opinions about God as well, but there is no evidence to suggest God is real, so there is plenty of reason to doubt the existence of ANY God, much less any one God in particular.

And I’m not even going to touch the “we NEED” part of that statement.  No, we don’t NEED to do any such thing.  If the God you believe in isn’t big enough to get himself “back” (?) to America …. well, there’s not much we mortals can do.   (Which reminds me … all those right-wing conservative folks who prayed and prayed for “God’s will to be done” are still bitching about having Obama for a President …. why?)