Trancendence
If you truly understood God, you would no longer think in the binary. The binary is how the lower dimensions work. 2D is certainly hell, and 3D feels like you’re stuck on the carousel in Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas. It’s a triple bamboozle brainwash. An acid trip that never ends.
But if you really understood the transcendence of God, then you would understand that everything and everyone is a shade of gray. There is no black and white. There are no absolutes. You would stop reducing human beings into categories of “bad” and “good”, and “us” vs. “them.”
What we do all seem to universally accept is that we are flawed. We make lots of excuses and justifications for ourselves and our behavior. We know that we have good hearts, but we also know we’re not perfect. We give ourselves grace in this way.
But we somehow believe ourselves to be unique – that it’s just our problems that are very complicated and nuanced. We will explain to death about how we received a speeding ticket, going all the way back to how 7 hours later, we had spilled our coffee so it was just a “Murphy’s Law” kind of day anyway.
But we don’t do the same way with others. It’s as if we are Truman in the Truman Show, and everyone else is just actors. NPC’s. 2D people.
We see them as being flimsy, black and white, binary, like paper dolls. Since we are not paper dolls, but real boys and girls, we make automatic judgments about them. We hear or see just one thing about them, and we instantly assume that they are stupid, or wrong, or bad. But we don’t even go investigate to find out if our assumptions are correct. We don’t ask them what terrible domino effect occurred in their life that caused them to be so…so sinful. We don’t ask, because we assume we know. Maybe they’re lazy, or poor, or an illegal alien, or a Republican, or a fake Christian.
In reality, all we “know” is that we are better than them. We are convinced we could never be as stupid as they are, as weak, as afflicted. They are just simple, two dimensional characters with two choices to make, and they made the wrong ones.
This is how religion detaches us from humanity.
It is meant to.
Religion places an emphasis on “sin” as a “separation from God”” But they make God separate. They put him up in the sky, far, far away from us. So high that even a city of men wouldn’t be able to construct a tower high enough to reach him. They put us on our knees, so that he lurks above us somewhere, watching, waiting. Some of them don’t allow us to listen to the beat of a drum during worship. If we did, we might feel something not just outside of us, but inside of us. Knocking at the door. Waiting to be let in. And then, we might look around, and see the other humans, and realize that God isn’t just knocking on our door. He’s knocking on their doors too. Every single one of them. He’s inside all of us. Each and everyone one of us. And we have done exactly what we were all warned against in the first place – becoming separated from God.