UNDER GOD

NBC offered an on-air apology Sunday for omitting the Under God portion of the Pledge of Allegiance during its U.S. Open coverage.

Nietzsche once famously wrote in his book, Thus Spoke Zarthustra, God is dead in the hearts of man. NBC, not wanting to upset this constituency, left God out. America is always going on about God, which is conveniently given to religion to explain.

The government writes In God We Trust on the back of the dollar bill, but what does that really mean? Is God physical? Is God spiritual? Or is God a combination of the physical and spiritual? The Torah says, neither! God is not physical or spiritual; God is the Creator.

The Creator is not of creation, the idea of existence is only relevant from the standpoint of that which exists. It says in the Midrash-Book of Metaphor, God's revelation in the world is the humility of God to descend into our world to be known.

God is equal throughout creation because all creation came out of nothing – everything is equally created. It is equality that gives uniqueness and it is the uniqueness that allows for individual relationships between every aspect of creation with the Creator.