The Church of the Possible God
Imagine God Imagine No God
Assuming God exists, I suggest God wants us to be at the state
where
we can imagine there is a God and we can imagine there is no God,
and God wants us to know that God wants us to delight in the possibility of
both.
Is sure knowledge of God required for moral behaviour?
Quite the opposite. Knowing is boring - it makes the world flat. And
people become restless.
The mystery - now that's inspiring - especially supposing God wants it to remain
a mystery.
Societies organize behaviour by incentives,
No, the mystery of not knowing inspires and delights such that our innate
passion to create beauty comes to the fore.
This is not to deny original sin - although someone may be inspired for some
time, enthusiasm is never permanent, and moral codes are required for when we
are not inspired, but to say that the effective response to sin is not the
band-aid solution of moralists, the effective response is, like movement
therapists
People whose bodies have adopted a shoulders-rounded-forward attitude may be told "Push your shoulders back", but that would be like doing two contrary wrongs hoping to balance at a right. Rather than add another "doing" - another muscular exertion, release the original error.
I'm not sure that God didn't intend for interfaith dialogue to be part of our growth, part of our redemption process.