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For the Love of God

 It is most laughable and terrible to discover that people have killed and died by the millions over differences in definitions of the word "God" - a paradoxical word that, more than any other word in the human language, is both the simplest to understand yet the most impossible to define - when even the United States Supreme Court has admitted it is incapable of defining what constitutes pornography, it just "knows it when it sees it." 

Yet unlike pornography, God remains as impossible to see as the word "God" is impossible to define. Sure, you can look at the world or the stars and imagine what you are seeing is "God," but you can just as easily imagine it to just be stuff that people imagine to be "God." And even when we chose to imagine the former, it brings us no closer to understanding how to define such a word than we understand the universe we are peering into. Like pornography,  "God" stimulates countless numbers of people to all lust for ever lasting life with their whole being. And like Pavlov's dog, what causes so many to begin salivating dopamine in their own brains for that idea of "eternal life" is simply hearing the word "God" itself being rung like a church bell.

And those who think their own definition of such a word is always the right one, however much they modify it over the course of their life, always feel the only way to save themselves from being tormented forever by the "being" to whom they affix their definition of the word "God" is to convince everyone on the planet their own definition is correct, and everyone else is wrong. 

As for everyone who disagrees with their definition, and persists in their willful devotion to the wrong definition of such a word, the "believer" of a particular branded definition of the word "God" must likewise believe they all justly deserve eternal tortures. Those torments are never anything that causes the true believer to loose a wink of sleep, of course, as long as they have saved themselves by "believing" they had the right definition all along, even if the eternally damned soul that landed on the wrong definition that led them straight to hell, and perhaps even through no fault of their own, may be their own child.

Truly, there is no greater "love" of "God" than that. 

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