God has better things to do than bless America!!

When you watch American politicians speak you are kind of surprised the number of times they invoke God. They generally end their speech with lines like “god bless America. God bless Americans”. That is putting too much on god. Don’t know if god is into atlas, if not then Mexico could be blessed!!. You know you can mistake few miles here and there…when you are watching from up there!!. “Well I am supposed to bless Americans not Mexicans. There I go I make mistake again!!”. That is tough one for god. Maybe the Americans could put a huge signal pointing to the sky saying “this is where you are to bless god”. Jokes apart if any politician in India were to invoke god like this it would be funny if not scandalous. I guess it is American thing since I haven’t heard it from most European leaders (like say Britishers). It is quite intriguing. This blogger has nothing against faith but find Americans quite difficult to comprehend. My hunch is that it is the majority population (middle class-that politician generally tend to address/represent) reaction to blatant form of anti faith or crassness against religion in public space in these societies (I could be wrong). The kind of regressive religious expression like against Darwin, stem cell research, abortion...you don't find anywhere else. Or is it the hyperbole about greatness of America that god has to acknowledge every now and then, an inverse jingoism?.

PS. Congratulation to Mr. Gulzar (I have attended his poetry reading. His poems are quite soulful, somewhat lost in translations though. I have read most of his poems. His simpleness is charming) and Resul Pookutty for winning Oscars. This blogger hopes that Oscars becomes truly international, and a voice to international cinema. By the way i have seen more of Anil Kapoor like for instance Mr. India (it was hugely popular), Taal...and so on. He is one of my favourite. Wonder when will indian film makers have a common platform for appreciating movies like Oscars.