What Happened to God?

As I look around, I seem to find that for some reason, a small minority of America has put God on the shelf or in a closet somewhere. It seems they, that small minority, don't want to acknowledge that there is a God, regardless of the manifestation of the many creations around them that have emanated from other than simply an evolutionary state.

I'm not getting into the religious issue of who is God to each and every one of us here; simply that each of the majority of people on this earth believe in God, even if their version is somewhat, or even radically, different than what someone else believes in. The point is that they do believe.

Now we come to the small minority of those we'll simply call atheists. That's okay since that's what they call themselves. Do I care if they don't believe in God? Not one iota I don't. Do I care if they spout their vile non-believer rhetoric within their own circle of people? Nope. What I do care about is that somehow, in some inane and idiotic manner, the judiciary of this great country listens to this minority, and allows them to bring legal challenge after challenge, costing us, the taxpayers, tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars, to erase any vestige of God from our nation's soil.

One idiot who doesn't believe in God can challenge the motto "In God We Trust" on our coins, tray and change the Pledge of Allegiance, and want to have all future currency changed as well as have current monies pulled from circulation because it offends him. What about the majority who think that he offends us? Maybe we should be suing him because he is frivolously costing us money by starting these suits?

How about Mt. Soledad in San Diego? Now that it's a Federal Veteran's Memorial, perhaps the suits to have the cross removed will cease. Who knows. Is the cross that offensive? Was the atheist mission simply that it's not a clear separation of church and state, or would they, if it were ever possible, try and have all religious symbolism removed from all buildings, private or not, because to have to look at it offends them? Hell, it offended me to have to look at Madalyn Murray O'Hair, who managed to have prayer banned in public schools, but I didn't sue to have her face removed! They tried to have the La Mesa city seal changed but that failed, so who knows what will lie in the path of their anti-religious lunacy next?

Many pray to different Gods, or at least some form of the same God, which has somehow become enmeshed within their chosen religious beliefs. Whichever one it is should give them solace, peace and a deep rooted and profound sense of being. In my humble opinion, that's what matters, to have a religion to believe in, whether it's the religion of the earth, of the heavens or wherever it is that brings you joy, and love, and a sense of future. Nobody can tell you that your religion is wrong if you truly believe in your heart that it's right, and right for you.

But to have no belief at all and then to try and stop others from believing by mean, selfish acts is just wrong.