30 Mar 06 Way to Go, America!

Religion was an attempt to pin down the Divine. The Divine was eternally in flux, forever moving, shifting shape. This was its nature. It was absolute, true enough: absolutely mobile. Absolutely transcendent. Absolutely flexible. Absolutely impersonal ... the Divine was beyond description, beyond knowing, beyond comprehension ... but the puny of soul, the dull of wit weren't content with that. They wanted to hang a face on the Divine ... the Divine was expansive, but religion was reductive. Religion attempted to reduce the Divine to a knowable quantity with which mortals might efficiently deal, to pigeonhole it once and for all so that we never had to reevaluate it.