Because I'm
burdened by emotional influences myself and because I'm surrounded by emotional
individuals who might be angered by the thought, a thought based on empirical
observation, it is difficult to simply and fairly even suggest the psychosis of
monotheism, a perspective based simply on historical observation. People kill and die during such discussions
frequently, even when based on historical factual events involving some ardent
religious zealot. Religious faith is a
touchy subject. The fact that I hesitate
to discuss historical actuality is one of many indicators of the psychosis of
monotheism.
I was taught that
the theological development over the course of time from many gods in the
distant past to one god more recently was a theological evolution of sorts. That many into one was somehow a refined
perspective. I was taught that god is
one and more specifically that there is one god and that this was a reasonable
conclusion. Even in school I was taught
that a monotheistic perspective was the way.
And of course in church I was taught that the version is the one correct
version. All monotheism talks about how
they are the chosen people with the one true practice that will lead you closer
to the one true god. And some believe that
their Judeaic, Christian or Islamic version of the one and true god is worth laying
down one's own life, or more unbelievable, worth taking the lives of others in
defense of it, or more amazingly still taking the lives of others simply for
having alternating ideas and practices.
This is all the epitome of psychotic behavior, believing in something
that cannot be proven and going so far as to harm others because of the belief.
It's not that I am
an atheist either, I am just making historical observations. God is not the problem, people are the
problem, or more accurately various interpretations of institutions based on
god. I believe in god. I believe I am god, or more accurately
another form of god. I believe man was
born with the capability to become god like and as many say attain Buddhahood
or as Nietzsche suggested cross the chasm from simpleton to superman. Buddhism believes that god is infinite in
infinite forms. And look at how culturally
relaxed and accepting they are. Perhaps
that is the very point and essence of it all.
Hinduism is the
oldest written religion on earth in which there are thirty-three billion
gods. There is a god for everything,
from dust and ashes, to trees and various people. The theological reasoning behind thirty-three
billion gods is because god, even if she be one and one only, can surely arrive
in billions of forms and at the same time for that matter, being god and all. Why would god be limited to one narrow format? The human reason for thirty three billion
gods is more important. Thirty-three
billion gods is just about enough to where no one will become aggravated by
alternative ideas or formats. In Hinduism
it is possible to worship one god, a few gods or all thirty three billion of
them and at the same time allow the worship of another's god as equal, as just one
of the other thirty three billion forms of god.
Thirty three billion is just enough gods to promote human respect of
other gods, it provides just enough space for people to believe what they want
to believe without being threatened by some psychotic.
Ardent monotheists
kill and die attempting to prove their god and attempting to proselytize people
for their god. Monotheism provides
people with a jingoistic inclination and perspective on spirituality, which
throughout recorded time has given rise to moments and movements of cultural atrocities,
violence which is somehow validated by some sense of tradition and support of
their one and true higher power.
Monotheism is psychotic for perpetuating such. I cannot believe that there is any god, even
amongst the thirty three billion Hindu gods, that requires people to kill
others and take over the world on their behalf.
God, in any of the thirty three billion forms has already created the
world, the world is hers no matter. No
god needs any human to build up and fight for any religious institutions, no
matter how forged on tradition. Those
monotheists which would tolerate people killing and dying based on or somehow for
monotheism do not know a god of oneness or any one true god. Claiming one god provides excuses for people
to behave in psychotic terms based on values validated by emotional rooted tradition. The psychosis of monotheism provides people
with excuses to attempt that very human sadism, controlling other humans.
A Sufi tale I retell in my own way:
It comes time for a well-practiced monk to go on a pilgrimage
to visit other adepts. He traverses the
land sharing knowledge and communicating with others. He is told that he really should visit a
fellow monk who resides by himself on an island. The monk takes a boat across the water and
soon finds the islander monk. The two
share a moment of chanting and meditation and the pilgrim monk notices the island
monk was saying the chant wrong. The
island monk is greatly upset that he had been practicing the wrong way for so
long. He thanks the pilgrim monk again
and again. Eventually the pilgrim monk
decides to continue on. He gets on the
boat and as he is in the middle of the water he thinks to himself that the he
benefitted the island monk by revealing the true meditation chant. Just then the island monk runs up to the
floating boat. "I might have forgot, can
you repeat the true chant once more?"
