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| Gods Offer of Freedom |
This is saying, God has given us the freedom to choose how we conduct our lives. But instead the majority of people choose obedience.
This is the primary sin - to choose obedience over autonomy. All other sins are relatively small derivatives. And if you keep committing it, all the rest are inevitable anyway. This primary sin is the robber who takes all that is left.
This is not to say God is angry with us. It is to say he washes his hands. For there is nothing he can do if he gave us the freedom to make that choice. He will just move on to the next planet in the hope of finding a wiser great masse of people.
"It's no use me giving you your freedom and then following that up with a set up rules you must follow to get into heaven.
You either choose freedom or commit a terrible self induced mistake. You may well say that God never owned the freedom to give away in the first place, I hear you. But this presupposes that God is outside of you". I Am.
As you know I have no religion. But I'm acutely aware of what these stories, like the story of God, are intended for in the context of the great masse of people. Stories or other tools which convey meaning well, give the individual immediate visibility into the psyche of the universe - call this visibility a singularity.
The value in these stories is that you do not need a guru, teacher, to practice it or education to gain access to them. You see it immediately in an instant, or you do not. Time and education are are problem because they give you time to escape from seeing it.
If you choose freedom, you will see the singularity instantly. If you choose obedience, you will not see it, ever. This is God's Offer of Freedom.
This rumour about God is important in every society as a semiotic story about something important pointing toward meaning which we can all unite around. It is not ideal, but is better than the available alternative.
You know I'm not a fan of stories. But society needs a strong story it can get behind and rely on to carry it through.
It is this kind of story, and its use, which modern political actors are trying to crush.