Burnt Out Nothing - 4: God is Only Good for the Dental Drill
God has always been a question derived from the answer that someone, something, or some center must be in charge. Living under a tyrant is scary; living without one is scarier. God is born from fear. There is nothing there. The word God is an empty gesture toward control in the most abstract sense.
God/gods began as necessary, anthropomorphized explanatory principles for cosmic order, motion, and thought.
This multitude became the single, Absolute foundation (pure being) of existence itself.
That foundational God then became more abstract, seen as a guarantor of knowledge, substance itself, or Nature.
Then, folding into increasingly mechanistic conditions, God became the architect of harmony, the supreme, central mathematician.
Then, after that, God was tucked away behind things as a failsafe postulate.
Then God was realized through history, as a process.
Then God died.
Then that corpse withdrew, and we were left with Being as a question itself.
Then we were haunted by the corpse.
Now that ghost is part of our psychology.
Now, all of the above is a debate, and once something is being debated, it no longer matters.
And now, right now, God is absolutely irrelevant.
God is good for one thing only: the dental drill.
Oh God! Please make it stop!
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God is in the way of love.