Wednesday, March 11, 2026
If there is a best in show, we are truly in trouble. If no one could top Jesus, J.S. Bach, Michelangelo, Muhammad, or any of “the gods” placed on a pedestal, the world is truly unjust, hope is vanity, and attainment is unattainable and yet has already been attained.
If the right and privilege of divine attainability belongs to one, it belongs to no one. Otherwise, Christianity and Islam are unattainable, but practicable. It’s an impossible religion if there is a hero or a goal. If the individual is the pinnacle, you might as well quit. Equating oneself with God, top dog, makes an us-vs-them. Who claims divine right?
Enlightenment is deification, practiced. The realization of the Christ is sustainable and Jesus was the exemplified practitioner, but was not “the only.” This is my beef with Christians and Muslims. In the east, everyone can be (a) Buddha, everyone can be (a) Brahman. In the west, no one can be (the) Jesus. In the middle east, no one can be (the) Muhammad. Too bad we peaked two thousand years ago.
Christianity and Islam are sealed. Meaning, top dog has been assigned. Go home. Who else should dare run for divine election? The kingship of authority rules in Muhammad or Jesus (depending upon what you buy into), and we, the lowliness of worms, must submit to the “boss” which singled “himself” out in these two chaps. Then what do we have to live up to?
I’m sorry if I insult your religious sensibility. But I’m not sure religion makes sense, especially if attainment is the goal. Who claims ownership of the universe? Couldn’t we spread the wealth and all practice the art of living On High? If I am human, like specified individuals named in historical scriptures, then I am also that generality which has been placed on an altar, worshiped, and deified. Quite frankly, I see no difference.