How dare you insult my god?

The keyword here is ‘my’. For, I don’t think we mortals have it in us to be able to insult someone or something like God. The entity we term ‘god’ would not be any good if he gets insulted by the mortals he created. And anyone who thinks otherwise needs to get his ideas about his god examined.

If, therefore, the issue is one of personal belief systems of the troika of Ante Nedlko Pavkovic, Katherine Lynn Pavkovic and Christan Renee Sugar or Operation Save America (OSA), an organisation that has taken it upon itself to back them, we need to look at this incident through the windows created by man. It is about social and religious hubris based on the power of numbers. Let us not bring god into the discussion — for a while.

The troika was protesting the chanting of prayers in the US Senate by Rajan Zed, a Nevada-based Hindu priest. “Lord Jesus, forgive us, father, for allowing a prayer of the wicked,” said one. “This is an abomination,” said another. “We shall have no other gods before You,” said a third. The protestors’ limited view was that there is only one true god, Jesus Christ, and everyone else, including and particularly Hindus, were followers of false gods. As they disrupted Zed’s prayers in a largely empty senate, he ended with, “May your spirits be as One; peace, peace, peace”. All priests, chaplains, clerics, ministers, pundits, maulvis, jathedars and rabbis, I suppose, would in their own ways and views finally agree with Zed’s concluding words.

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