Why do people get offended when God's name is desecrated?

Do we really believe that God is bothered when someone desecrates His name? Many of us imagine God as our invisible leader, our alpha male who is the symbol of our tribe. We rally around him; he unites against other tribes. He is the strongest amongst us and protects us. Or perhaps He is imagined as a dictator like the leaders in the Arab and Muslim world who need to stifle dissenters in order to hold on to their power.

When contemplating the term "Allahu Akbar", I think the very fact that we are offended is offensive in itself. If God is greater than the universe and greater than time and existence, than how can He be offended by anyone? And why should we be offended on His behalf?

Let's suppose, for the sake of argument, that we worship the sun, since the earth was born out of the sun and all energy on earth ultimately comes from the sun. Would the sun be offended if someone said, "Damn the sun, the source of all evil"? Would the sun stop providing that person with energy?

Now, if we believe that God is the Creator of the Sun, then that should apply even more.

We should laugh when someone says things that sound "insulting" about God, just as we laugh when someone says something "insulting" about the sun.

Why do people desecrate His name?

There are people who lose their faith when faced by a traumatic event because they feel that God has abandoned them. I would think that this is a consequence of viewing God as a person up there somewhere who answers some people's prayers but doesn't answer others, therefore take it personally.

We don't take it personally when gravity causes us harm, nor do we damn gravity, because we know that damning it or losing faith in it will not do us any good. We continue to surrender to its laws.

On the other hand, people often damn religious symbols out of a need to rebel against people around them. And since Muslim societies tend to be collective, we tend to use religion to enforce unity and conformity. But taking offense only gives a rebellious person what he wants and that is attention.

Then there are people who damn life out of depression or hopelessness. In this case, the reason we would want to intervene is that people like these are harming themselves but attracting negativity and also causing harm to the universe by Propagating negativity.

This reminds me of the Hadith Qudsi, "Allâh said: 'The son of Adam hurts Me by damning Time, for I am Time; in My Hands are all things and I cause the revolution of night and day.'" (Bukhari 6/351; 9/583 and Muslim 4/5581)

قال الله عز وجل: يؤذيني ابن آدم يسب الدهر، وأنا الدهر بيدي الأمر، أقلب الليل والنهار

I think comparing our response to acts of God with our response to the laws of the universe is a good way to examine whether or not we are making progress in viewing Him as "Akbar."