Chaplain Barred From Saying “God”

by Van Helsing | March 19, 2009 12:30 pm

Liberalism has gone as far as it ever needs to when chaplains are barred from saying the word “God.”[1]

A chaplain at Hospice by the Sea in Boca Raton has resigned, she says, over a ban on use of the words “God” or “Lord” in public settings. … [Rev. Mirta ] Signorelli said that she and other chaplains were told Feb. 23 to “cease and desist from using God in prayers.”

Why would these words be banned? Because they have a certain “connotation.”

Signorelli said her supervisor recently singled her out for delivering a spiritual reflection in the chapel that included the word “Lord” and had “a Christian connotation.”

“But that was the 23rd Psalm,” Signorelli said — not, strictly speaking, Christian, as it appears in the Old Testament.

“And I am well aware that there were people from the Jewish tradition in attendance. I didn’t say Jesus or Allah or Jehovah. I used ‘Lord’ and ‘God,’ which I think are politically correct. I think that’s as generic as you can get.”

Not good enough, Rev. Signorelli. How do you think Muslims feel? Atheists? Scientologists? Satanists? Obamunists?

Mathew Staver of Liberty Counsel[2] observes the obvious:

To excise God from someone who is a grief counselor seems to be an extreme and uncalled-for response.

But the good of the patients takes a back seat to the larger goal of extirpating Christianity, so that we may be restricted to a shallow, meaningless world in which a human life is a random accident, of no more value than a dog’s, and there is no higher authority than the federal bureaucracy that finances the hospice with Medicaid and Medicare.

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Deeper meanings are not to be permitted.

On tips from Viking04 and The MaryHunter. Cross-posted at Moonbattery[3].

Endnotes:
  1. barred from saying the word “God.”: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/community/news/bocaraton/sfl-flphospice0318pnmar18,0,5601993.story
  2. Liberty Counsel: http://www.lc.org/
  3. Moonbattery: http://www.moonbattery.com/

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