Speculation.

I was about to watch Devil and then I started speculating about his very existence. This whole Devil business does prompt some interesting theories on the nature of evil in society today. Christianity bases so much on the devil, almost all evil in the world is attributed to him, he is feared and hated. But this is another being who was of course created by the supreme God, so such fear should by all means be unwarranted.

I think at this point, all the emphasis that we ourselves have placed on this character is what gives it so much power today. Our inability to deal with the evil within us and then creating a bypass to shed it onto him makes the image of him more than what it it really is.

If he even exists at all, if he's not just some figment of an overworked imagination to explain the horrible capabilities of the human soul that said imagination did not want to own up to. I believe that there is a realm that we cannot see, a non reality in this world of baubles that we are not in tune with that could explain this fully.

There's so much we don't know about the true nature of this world & in that ignorance, fear is born & in that fear the Devil exists. I simply cannot wait to have a blunt in hand and have this conversation with someone.

I used to say, I believe that the devil exists because I believe in God, but that assertion debases what I believe of God. Because if God is the ultimate, there can be no counter balancing factor. Unless he himself is both. Good and evil. The creator is said to be unexplainable, uninterpretable, it is said that my human mind can in no way rationalize his existence.

So if we say that, he couldn't possibly adhere to our mundane understanding of "God is good". Because he is above good. Some philosophers insist on speaking about the creator in negative tones to fully grasp how little we can understand of him.

So instead of saying what he is, we should start with what he is not. To suggest something greater than the original adjective, a greatness that we will never be able to fully grasp.

I believe in causality. That everything has a cause. I mean, the Devil's very creation was based of off this ideal. He was jealous of us, tried to take over, got banished, became evil. How juvenile, how clearly bullshit. There are too many loose ends in that story of his creation to give it any real attention. It's a blatant attempt to humanize a character that we were always warned not to. Because that idea is impossible.

There's something deeply spiritual about our existence, there is power within the unanswered questions. So much unknown. And these fairy tales only pollute our would be pursuit of the universal truth. It closes our minds to greater possibilities. It promotes shallow living.

There's a story I was told in a church I used to go to here in Georgia that deeply affected me. One of the members of the congregation was Indian, born and raised there, his parents were still in India and were Hindu. He had married a white woman and took her home to meet his parents, where they slept in the room he grew up in. There were various statues of the Gods of the Hindu religion spread around the room and in the middle of the night while her husband asleep she said she heard them whispering to her, speaking to her. She woke her husband up in fear, he laughed and said "Oh they always do that" she asked him what they were saying because it wasn't in English. So he stopped, listened for a moment and then replied

"They're saying; This is not what we wanted, this is what man has done to us".

Everyone around me was so in shock with the idea of speaking statues they immediately attributed the entire ordeal to the devil. But I sat there in silence as the words simmered in my mind. What it said could only denote a neutral nature in their existence before man labeled them. And in Christianity you are only taught of good and evil. God and the devil. But there are no words of any sort of a neutral spirit. No idea that there could be such energies floating around, minding their own business, who are suddenly stolen and shaped by our own words.

That shit mind fucked the hell out of me.

It still does.

And the idea that the rest of the congregation didn't pick up on this obvious flaw in our doctrine blew me. It wasn't whispering evil shit, it was asking for help, but without even a second thought they immediately wrote it off. Because there was no explanation for those words they simply threw it on the devil with no attempt to fully digest the possible meaning.

What if WE created the devil?

This is all speculation of course, just like the original doctrine conceived to explain evil is and was basic speculation.

But needless to say, I will not stop challenging these obvious fallacies, I will not blind myself to these spiritual potholes.

I do not question God. I question Man.