thread: 2005-08-09 : The New Open House 2: Religion
On 2005-08-12, T. wrote:
I believe that I can create games. I can imagine people whose names I created, whose thought I generate, I know their instincts, and desires, their failing and their triumphs.
It is easy to see the reverse—that I a small creature of this world can imagine others, shows me that somewhere it is possible someone exists who imagined me—and knows me as well as I know those others I created. The difference is subtle that it has the power to make it "real" as it imagines.
I believe in Christ's teaching, that he came to show a better way, lived and died for that better way, and in that he was the son of God, because the imagination is the key to God, and he imagined a path for all of us that was better than the one we were one—caring for others, loving others—even the Bible says that Faith, Religions, are unimportant without love. Love is about respect too—and that flies in the face of many proseltyzers, they don't respect others. I disagree that a given theolgian may know another person's understanding of scriptire and claim it is wrong. You don't know that they didn't get what they needed from that verse—only when they try and impose it like vise on another, or becomes harmful (for all things can be harmful if taken to far, especially religion.)
That doesn't change that I believe God loves, God creates, and that it is because his love is vaster than we can understand that is seems harsh to us—because he does love the viruses that kills us, as he does the sparrow, the wolf, and man.
It was Percy Shelley I believe who said "Imagination is Morality" and the whole romantics as a movement hit upon something—that being able to imagine, to LOOK even a moment through anothers eyes gives us a vast insight into morals we might not see otherwise.
God can see all points of view.
That is something even we cannot truly imagine.
We try, but we're still limited to mere flesh and blood.
And yet through all those points of view, God still loves, still inspires love.
