A Divided Deity, part one

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It can be difficult if not down right painful to address consequences of what a deity’s divided psyché may mean to Earthlings’ well being. A divided deity, that is, one that commends armed conflicts and simultaneously commends humans’ love for each other, is dualism at its finest.

Here are easy examples for staying awake to our collective behaviors that generate dualisms—addictive, misleading behaviors passed generation to generation—setting us up to feel justified on one hand and slimed on the other.

Have you noticed the feelings while lying to a business associate when you were trying to cover up something; perhaps, a truth better unspoken, you felt justified by remaining silent?

Have you noticed the feelings while being lied to by a spouse who attempted a cover up; perhaps, the spouse felt justified by not telling the whole truth?

Do you remember the feelings while lying to someone when your children were present, then tried to justify the falsity to the kiddos? What feelings are felt when your teenage child lies, or when lying to the child?

Have you noticed the feelings when a politician, a pundit, an economist, an image consultant, a bank loan officer, a preacher, or a salesman toss you some double-speak, or when a customer service representative insinuates an idea you intuit or already know to be baloney?

Let’s pretend that for each misrepresentation of a truth, the grand construct has been re-enforced. The grand construct is the webbed matrix of dualisms elegantly woven as lusciously as fine bed linen, wrapped around a boundless cage we can sense, and we can’t see, touch, hear, nor smell it.

The matrix is a weave of exquisitely re-enforced deceptions, masking knowledge of the truth as the truth is assumed to be. Hypocrisy, dupes, insincerity, betrayals, all—with little consideration of the listeners’ sensibilities nor intuitive capacities—manifested the matrix in all cultures of the world.

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (b 1803), American essayist, thinker, writer

More humans than not feel trapped inside the cagey matrix, tolerating it ad nauseam, believing a messianic event (described in the eschatologies of three monotheisms: Christianity, Judaism, and Islam) will remedy the current swells of religious, economical, and geopolitical freakups. Meanwhile, until the one, two, or three of three messiahs reign (and, I wonder which messiah will arrive first), olden belief systems will continue generating the matrix. Earthlings’ tolerations drain emotional and physical and psychical energies, although we want to believe and tell others that we’re really feeling just fine.

The reward of happiness in the next life in return for suffering in this life is dualism in its crowned glory, and has faithfully served fundamental religionists and governmental elitists in patriarchal playgrounds for thousands of years. When Earthlings live waiting for their ultimate promised contentment in the next life, as a bargain exchange for suffering in this life, the collective ‘we’ tolerate moral flimflam until forced to elicit ethical recourse from the heart.

The biggest nightmare for religious governances is citizenries who think; who intend staying awake and gawk at intuited “Surprise!” inklings, expecting contentment and joy in this life, in this world!

On behalf of a divided deity that possesses a split psyché, traditional (western) religions’ stories and rituals are important threads to keep the shamed psyché in tact. Further, we’re well documented for shielding our uncomely behaviors and choices with forgiveness, also part of shaming belief systems. Many of us are now cognizant of the embedded matrix that has been guarded by intense combats subjugating women, children, and men throughout every civilization for religions’ political icons of greed and profit.

Our constant curiosity is key
to watching what’s being created.
~ David Moorhead