Thursday 30 January 2014

Deus

From time immemorial
We have cried out for the existence of one who could rule us all
One who was perfect
One to who, we could cast off the burden that is perfection.

But...why?
Why do we think we need to do this?
Why is there the need for a God who, to me, is quite contrary?
Or gods...take your pick. I'm not picky.

But what is it though?
Is it that we are a bit too aware of our shortcomings as people?
Is it that we believe --whether we want to admit it or not--
That we are incapable of unconditional grace, mercy, love and peace?

I like to think of myself as a rational thinker.
A skeptic, although I'm not sure of the benefits of such an epithet.
But to me
God is merely a consensual representation of all that we as humans desire to be.
All that we know we are perfectly incapable of doing...of being...
Perfection.