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

[solar-diablo.livejournal.com]

While I don't particularly cotton to the mainstream Christian notion of the Divine as some transcendant, omnipotent father figure who lords from on high and metes out reward and punishment, I have to ask - even in an panentheist rending shouldn't there be some level of heirarchy between the Divine and Creation? What's to make a god worthy of worship if he/she/it is no more than just an ordinary Joe? Although I realize I'm simplifying what you're getting at a bit.

I bring this up only as something of a reaction to much of the negativity some feel towards the worship of any deity (Christian or otherwise), which I feel stems less from a need to get one's neck out from under the Divine boot and more from hubris. When did humility as a spiritual or social practice fall out of favor? Something tells me it's linked at least tangentially to that cult of celebrity you find so strange.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I don't believe there's a distinction between creator and creation. The universe makes itself. Whatever exists is God and God is whatever exists. Since we are a part of universe we too are divine.