Got it. *And* I'm not explaining my point very well, because I've not put it in context.
I've been noticing, and been increasingly irked by, mainstream media's use of the word "god" as though there can be only one definition of the term. Do that, and you've already conceded one point that the Religious Wrong in this country ought to have to defend. In the copy I turn in at BTL now, I always make a point of saying that, (to use an example):"According to so-and-so (insert your favorite figure from the anti-gay industry here), the *Christian* god used hurricane Katrina to punish New Orleans for that city's tolerance of homosexuality."
Perhaps this is too subtle a point, or one that is less important generally than it feels to me specifically. But it seems to me that monotheism itself ought not be a given, let alone any one sect's view of who and what that deity is.
Re: I believe you're over-generalizing
I've been noticing, and been increasingly irked by, mainstream media's use of the word "god" as though there can be only one definition of the term. Do that, and you've already conceded one point that the Religious Wrong in this country ought to have to defend. In the copy I turn in at BTL now, I always make a point of saying that, (to use an example):"According to so-and-so (insert your favorite figure from the anti-gay industry here), the *Christian* god used hurricane Katrina to punish New Orleans for that city's tolerance of homosexuality."
Perhaps this is too subtle a point, or one that is less important generally than it feels to me specifically. But it seems to me that monotheism itself ought not be a given, let alone any one sect's view of who and what that deity is.