When I was took art history in college, we used a tome called History of Art. It was the history of Western art made by white men. No history of art written today could be so closed and narrow. And art is so much the better for it. We need to see religion in the same way.
Every god we’ve worshipped has exceptional powers beyond those of humans themselves—powers of creation, omnipotence, ability to reconfigure nature, for example. Human individuals and communities cling to their gods as one-and-only and see themselves the chosen ones.
This is the biggest heresy, to limit god to one form and one presence. To limit the message of god humans. To limit god to one historical time. To limit the way in which individuals search for and find god in their lives.
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