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Article: Who God is.(BACK BURNER)
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- Catholic New Times
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- June 19, 2005
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GOD. What word is more used and abused and understood in meanings that span the spectrum from devotion to anger; from exclamation to the trivial and the thoughtless?
The word "God" has become a catch-all term, a non-name, even a sigh or a swear word.
In Christianity too, it has become almost meaningless, merely a sliver of linguistic "silly putty." Make it mean what you will.
One day as I was photocopying at UBC, a young man bounded up to me, face flushed.
"Do you believe in God?" he erupted. Taken by surprise, I tried to give an honest answer. But I did not know if his concept of "God" was in any way similar to mine. Some prudence ...