Human Expression Cannot Pierce the Armour of God

Humanity’s con­cept of ‘God’ is not of flesh and blood, or a piece of wood or stone. It is an ethos that ties a set of val­ues and iden­ti­ty to our lives. ‘God’ is con­sid­ered a super­nat­ur­al force that is com­pas­sion­ate, pow­er­ful, destruc­tive, all-see­ing, and untouched by the evo­lu­tion of the world. This con­cept is beyond the spa­tial and tem­po­ral bound­aries of the mor­tal plane, and as his­to­ry is wit­ness, has endured the test of time, play­ing a sig­nif­i­cant role in human soci­ety as an ide­o­log­i­cal pow­er cen­tre even when tem­ples and scrip­tures turn to dust.

If this is the notion of ‘God’ across the world, how can belief in such a pow­er be rocked by mere words? True ‘believ­ers’ should not be moved to anger and vio­lence over opin­ion, crit­i­cism or neg­a­tive depic­tions that may ques­tion or even lam­poon ‘God’. Those who rage in the name of ‘God’ clear­ly pos­sess a flim­sy faith, one that is eas­i­ly open to sug­ges­tion and tin­ker­ing. That’s where the pol­i­tics of reli­gion finds its pow­er, and the host of atroc­i­ties in the name of ‘God’ stem from. These are mid­dle­men who cor­rupt the cir­cuit of Man and ‘God’.‘God’ has and will dom­i­nate the tapes­try of time, and no car­toon­ist, jour­nal­ist, news­pa­per, TV chan­nel or inter­est group can extin­guish it. These are blips on the human time­line that can­not shake an insti­tu­tion as old as mankind. Speech­es, car­i­ca­tures and the writ­ten word emerge and are for­got­ten in time, but true believ­ers should look beyond them, treat them as insignif­i­cant to their faith and even ques­tion their own con­vic­tion if anger lurks in their hearts.

‘God’ has the tenac­i­ty to pre­vail; those who express their faith through anger do noth­ing more than mask their doubt to con­vince the world and them­selves of their devo­tion. But ‘God’ does not need their pro­tec­tion. Anger nev­er empow­ers ‘God’ but kind­ness and good­will in His name will always empow­er mankind.