"Under God"
It has always been a matter if intrigue to me. “Under God”. The reason this statement intrigues me is not the statement itself, but rather the riled sentiments that come about by it. In the last few years, a man attempted to have it removed from the pledge of allegiance, claiming that he, as an “atheist”, did not want his daughter to be forced to say those two words. What I don’t understand is WHY he was so upset. Never has “god” been defined as the Christian God, the God of Islam, or any other specific entity. The pledge of allegiance just says “God”. Quite simply, “god” is the power that got you here, and back to which you will someday return. For that reason, I hold that I have never met a true “atheist”. There may be those who deny “God” as a being, but no one ever said that’s what “God” has to be. For those who believe in Fate, that is who created their circumstances, and who controls their future. Fate is then God. For those who believe in science, evolution, and nature, those are the things that created them, and those are the end products of existence. Nature is then God. For those that worship Satan, he is their interloper, and the one to which they hope to return*. There is ALWAYS a god of some sorts. No one ever said that “God” had to have a white beard, robes, be male, or even have a physical representation. But there is always someone or something that got us here and that ultimately (whether consciously or not) gets us where we’re going. So, if there is always a “God”, then shouldn’t we, as a nation, be under Him/Her/It/Them? After all, that is what the concept of America is: people of different beliefs, backgrounds, and morals all united to improve their lives. We don’t all have to pray to Buddha or aspire to sing with angels or read the Torah or leave offerings on altars for the Spirit of the Sun TOGETHER. The key idea is that we are united under SOMETHING, and that we all recognize that that SOMETHING is higher than us, no matter what that SOMETHING may be.
*By the way, Satanism has always confused me. Even sadists, masochists, and Satanists like pleasure, comfort, rest, and sustenance, though their ideology may be against it. So they really want to spend eternity in a lake of unending misery and torture? I personally do not think they do. So they want a heaven, correct? But, honestly, can you picture the Source of All Evil sitting on a sun-soaked beach, smiling, sipping piña coladas and laughing it up with all his demon hoards?
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Ok guys if you're gonna be a satanist, you're gonna have a BAD TIME, not gonna have a lot of fun.
I think you could define for atheists that "God" is whatever they look to for guidance and prospertity - maybe science or their own conscience. I think everybody no matter what they believe, essentially worships a god, whether purposely or inadvertently. One might consider another man's god an idol, but that doesn't matter. We all have our own gods...even Mr. Atheist. It's something we all have in common, which helps unite us as a people.
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