What’s in a name?

Ares

Why don’t we name a rocket we’re building after the Greek god of war?  Well, in one way it makes sense - our eyes are turned towards the eventual landing of Americans on Mars, and being the ‘red’ planet, it was in Roman myth represented as the god of war, so NASA has chosen to name this latest rocket after the Greek god, Ares.   So what?  It’s nothing, really and I’m investing more effort into posing the question than it deserves but having said that, we Americans traditionally practice the use Roman and Greek mythological gods and goddesses on our official symbols…and I’m not here to criticize that.

Former LA County Seal

 But that brings up this thought in my mind.  I wonder why the ACLU hasn’t questioned this practice considering  their definition of the seperation of church and state?  Why, for example did the ACLU threaten an expensive lawsuit against the tiny crosses on the official seal of Los Angeles county?   The threat of such a law suit in an already financially strapped county caused those tiny crosses (symbols of the historic Catholic missions in LA history) to be removed from the seal which hasn’t bothered anyone here-to-fore.  Yet, (was it hypocrisy?)  the ACLU completely ignored the much larger image of the Roman goddess of harvest.  Isn’t that a religious symbol as well?  What about the California State Seal that bears the image of Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom and war? 

New LA County Seal

What’s my point?  These Greek and Roman religious symbols on our official government seals don’t seem to offend the sensibilities of the ACLU, nor the anti-Christians they represent, but display a cross – woe be to the Christians - that’s cause for a lawsuit.  Think of how silly this all is.  But as rediculous as it is, doesn’t it reveal a specific kind of religious intolerance? 

As a Christian, I  personally don’t have a problem with these mythological symbols existing on our government seals, but I view with alarm the ongoing attacks focused against Christianity.  In a day and age when already tight taxpayer money is being drained away by the ACLU on these idiotic lawsuits, (removing crosses, the Ten Commandments, “under God” from the pledge, and our national motto, “In God we trust” off of our coinage)

Goddess Minerva

they don’t seem to be going after the Muslims for getting the taxpayers to put foot washing basins in public restrooms so that Muslim gentlemen can wash their feet. 

What is it about Christianity, the overwhelming religion of our founding fathers, that has singularly incurred these attacks by the ACLU?