God as "Energy," Part 1

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I firmly and solidly disagree with the direct quote that you made from the writer. He has fallen into a snare that entraps so many without discernment and discrimination. He claims that God is "neither good nor evil." And, like so many who fall into this trap, he believes that his view, or he himself, is "more sophisticated" or "more enlightened" than others.

This is far from high spirituality, as he obviously believes it to be. It is blatant and dangerous ignorance masquerading as "nonjudgment." It turns "God" into a blind, dumb "energy." He presents the most beautiful and wisest Mind in all creation as a blank, a morally neutral, force of Mind. This is truly and utterly to misunderstand God or Love.

If Love were really a morally neutral energy, then it would be as acceptable to hurt others as to help them. Nothing in the wide universe of morality has any meaning, nothing really matters, if "God" or enlightened Mind is this "gray" neutrality. This man, although claiming to be a "teacher," has utterly misunderstood the nature of Love (God).

His teaching is that "God," as mere energy, could be used by evil people to do evil just as readily as good people use It to do good! Both Hitler and Jesus could use this same energy, and so, "God" was the servant of both.

God is not a servant of human beings at all, but their Master. And God is the furthest in the cosmos from the morally neutral, uncaring "monstrosity" of a "God" which he presents, who could be "used for" supporting nightmarish evil. Could "god" be used, as energy, to support rape, stealing, torture, or murder? As naked and neutral energy, the answer is yes. But as the true Font of goodness, God, as Love, always supports those ideas and actions that support life. So, a basic mystical definition of "evil" is voluntarily, deliberately to harm living things, including yourself. This harm can be physical, moral, psychological, social, spiritual, or emotional.

God would, and could, never support such ghastly activity. God, as Love, is and was never morally "neutral." God did not support the horrors of the Inquisition and witch-trials, for example, and did not support the genocides of the nazis and others. God does not support active satanism-- the glorification of deliberate fear and evil.

No, this dangerous "teacher" has missed the truth by a thousand lightyears. With a tone of moral and intellectual superiority, as if he alone knows this great but subtle "truth," he has denied the very foundation of all goodness, by saying that God lacks this basic essential quality, and by implying that God does not support goodness. Goodness, he implies, is nothing but a human interpretation-- often misleading and always unreliable. He has truly, tragically, hurled the infant to the ground along with its water for bathing!