Citizen God

[poliphilo]

This is prompted by something qos was saying.

Religious language is always conservative. We live in a age of democracies but we're still using monarchist language about God.

Why, when I don't want to be ruled by a King in real life, should I want to acknowledge one in my spiritual life?

I don't like Kings (or Queens or Princes.) If I got an invitation to Buckingham Palace I would (politely) decline. I'm a Republican in the European sense of the word. Ah ca ira, ca ira, ca ira and all that. I think Prince Charles is a national embarrassment.

But if I go to Church (which I don't, but if I did) it's all "crown him with many crowns, the lamb upon the throne."

No thanks.

Where are the rights of Man in all this? Why is Heaven still stuck in the feudal middle Ages?

"He hath put down the mighty from their seat". Does he exclude only himself from the levelling process?

The myth of the incarnation suggests otherwise. God becomes Jesus, becomes an ordinary Joe, becomes a citizen.

Citizen God- why not?

My God is immanent- a sister, a brother, a comrade- or I don't want to know.

Comments

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

And one more thing before I go brush my teeth for thirty minutes (I'll trade you your needle fear for my fear of flying. Deal?):

There's a deep prejudice in us that people who are beautiful and rich are more valuable and better than those who are ugly and poor.

Which is why we think the Queen (and she seems to agree) is a higher form of being than us.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I've always been disappointed in the Queen. I find her dull. She's been delivering speeches for 60-70 years now and she still does it in a characterless drone.

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

Definitely more valued. But that doesn't actually mean more valuable.