I had an epiphany, and I won’t say it was “unaided,” but this doesn’t make it any less valid. So, hear me out – and by no means am I implying that any of this is original. It’s simply my thoughts, original or not.
My inner Jew is a prophet, and I asked God to open the veil. I wanted to see what lay beyond, whatever it may be. I was prepared…
… and it turns out that, like every single one of us, there’s a frightened little child in God too. God is not perfect, and this is part of why He’s described as a “father.” A father is no more perfect than a baby, but we love Him nonetheless. He created us “in His image” and I think that’s part of what is meant; like us, He contains a frightened little child.
“Blasphemy!” I hear from those who follow great Jewish luminaries such as Maimonides, whose memory I still hold dear. Like me, he was an Aspie. He took the idea of the “oneness” of God to extremes, which is rather insulting at face value. After all, an Aristotelian Singularity cannot make decisions, let alone create entire worlds. Yes, I believe there’s a reason, among many, that the word “singularity” was chosen. It implies a god without agency. A mechanical god with no free will. So yes, I’ll honor the memory of Maimonides, but I won’t agree with him on this.
We’ve been wrong all along. I’ve been wrong all these years. God is not perfect, and He’s not an absolute oneness, as if such a thing can even exist among sentient beings. His imperfections are mirrored in His creations. This is the true Abrahamic God, not some pseudo-singularity concoction invented to please the rationality of Greeks.
The reduction of God into a flawless singularity is rather insulting, and (ironically) it reduces Him to the status of a statue. Without meaning to do so, people like Maimonides have become idolators – and I know I’ll catch a lot of flak from my Jewish brothers and sisters, but the Christians do have a point. God cannot be a perfect unity; that is an invention of the Greeks.
When White-advocates speak of the “Abrahamic religions” as being rigid, immoral and expansionist, they really should find a better term for it, because the Greeks were fully European. It’s their Hellenistic philosophy that warped Judaism. I think some of the early Christians might have been rebelling against this and compensating with emotion. True, archaic, Judaism has been lost…
… except for the fact the Scripture cries out in its name, much as the blood of Abel cried out from the soil. The Karaites, and before them, the Sadducies, tried to bring back the Old Faith.
Dare I even say it? Yes, even some of the Kabbalists arose in a similar spirit.
What does all this mean? It means that true, ancient, Judaism had the potential to be much more tolerant toward non-Jews than it turned out.
I’d better publish this before I change my mind.