THE WORD “GOD” CARRIES BAGGAGE

Rip Parker
4 min readFeb 4, 2022

“UNIVERSE” SEEMS A COMFORTABLE SUBSTITUTE

I think it a bit odd that there seems to be fear of using the word “God”. On the other hand, “God” has become so burdened by foolishness, superstition, and God knows what all, we can never be sure a listener won’t categorize us as fundamental woo woos if we speak “God this, God that”.

Not that I really care how I’m seen, but in the remote chance I might say something worth hearing, I’d hate to lose that rare opportunity because the word “God” threw someone’s listening switch “off”.

Rip Parker

Geophysicist, lawyer, mediator, student of Jung, phenomenology, semiotics