Theology 101: God Is the Keyboard You’re Typing On
A blasphemous breakdown of divine narcissism, King David’s loopholes, and why pantheism is the only theology that makes sense
Ok… it’s God time…
First: Anybody has to read the 10 Commandments… That’s about the only SMS from His Highness He gave to us. The first five are just about Me Me Me… and He curses and threatens (with death?) if you don’t worship Him but another.
Seems pretty neurotic to me.
Then the most important stuff feels kind of like an addendum by a ChatGPT bot who wanted to be published, but with a note about the morality of the claims… so they added: do not kill… do not steal… do not fornicate your friend’s wife… which, anyway, His protégé David did… and got away with breaking No. 6 too (do not kill).
So this is the anthropomorphic God that everybody integrated through Christian or Jewish education (I don’t know if Muslims obey these 10 rules too, from the Bible).
This God? I think… only this little shopping list He gave to us speaks for Himself.
I don’t know if the list is real… I wish not.
I wish God was smarter and less possessive… but… you know… uneducated older generations… He didn’t have Khan Academy.
But I digress here. So this is the first part…
Secundo: there is no God.
If there was, He would be separated from His creation.
Then the insoluble question: Who created God?
So if there is no God… but still, creation is…
Then God is the creation itself.
Means everything… even this keyboard I’m writing on… is God.
So God is not = Godliness Is… including everything there is.
Then you can hopefully have a wet dream about eternity, where our undying soul will navigate forever in the sea of beautiful stars and constellations, and merge with the subtle conscience responsible for the emergence of everything.
Because if Godliness is (and that’s my position), it must be a continuum…
from the mathematics and everything that exists beyond the material barrier…
to the subtle breeze of the Divine Spirit that can change events and intervene in the world (some call it the Holy Ghost or the Holy Spirit)…
to the over-processed material of my keyboard.
Everything is God,
from supple to hard…
from silence to the F-16 sonic bang.
God is a continuum of matter and space and beyond.
But this overwhelming definition says nothing,
because saying “everything” is equivalent to saying nothing,
since each category needs a yin and yang.
A coin always has two faces in order to exist.
So I could say:
“God is everything and nothing… like the two faces of a coin.”
Epilogue
But words are not the reality they point at,
and God is reality,
so we cannot define God, just like the word "truth" cannot be the TRUTH.
I can point to God with my hands in prayer, looking up…
but I cannot pack Him in a word or even a definition.
So if God cannot be defined by a word,
maybe He can be defined by an experience.
Truth cannot be said, only experienced.
You must surrender to what Is… or the Truth… in order to Become the Truth.
Or simply: Be.
God is just a way to say we transformed into the Being.
What else is God, if not simply Being?
When I touched God with my hand, He burned it.
But afterward, I came.
I showed you my glowing hand with God’s light,
the truth was there.
I saw God in between the lines of a poem.
I saw Him in the undulation of a beautiful hair.
I heard Him in the crackling of the forest.
I knew He was there when I fell in love,
and I fell so bad that He gave me wings to help me.
I felt Him when my heart was broken, when it was crying alone.
I knew He was there.
God is always there.
You cannot touch His essence, only His manifestations.
You cannot express Him in words or definitions.
He is in every one of our feelings.
He is in every one of the lights of our eyes.
He’s in our touch.
He’s in our hearts and minds.
He never left us.
Never will.