Lighter, the connection is easy to see: the Higgs boson is said to cause other particle to have mass (though not Mass, as in the pun bobad links to), which can be seen in analogy to creation events as described in the Bible.

In pre-Christian times, the word god (or gudan etc.) was of neuter gender, so it cannot have meant a personal being. It may have referred to an abstract spiritual essence that fills the entire space, which makes for another analogy to the HB.

I know nothing about Lederman's personal faith, I was just observing that when scientists draw ironic analogies to spiritual concepts, it is often not mere irony.

In contrast, "the publisher wouldn't let us call it the Goddamn Particle" is a joke and nothing else; "wouldn't" meaning if we had suggested it. A journalist constructed a case of censorship from this, obviously falling victim to this joke.