The more we try to nail down the concept of god, the further we stray from truth. God is a concept, an idea limited to the scope of imagination He, she, it, they—it’s all made up of a peculiar collection of human expectations. Every religion has its own behaviors and quote-unquote moralities to vilify. American Christians see the poor as people to be helped up, to be dragged out of their vulnerability and into a protective shell of self-help. In other cultures, the poor are sacred, or at least elevated to the same level as their well-off peers; their vulnerability is in a sense rewarded rather than maligned. To summarize the deadly power of religion: the more we say, “this is who you should be,” through dogma and social pressure, the less we are true to who—and what—we are.
I started reading a book my mom gave me about Christianity and, uhhh…this happened.