I found this to be among your most enjoyable articles to read and ponder. So thank you for it!
In moving forward with your description at the outset of your article, it is quite apparent that if there is a God for the good and a Devil for the bad then that seems to imply that God must be within the system and not outside of it. It’s a perfect case for why God is an invention of the human mind that is beset by dualistic/fragmented thinking.
If we can stand back for a moment — far enough away from thought — then we can see that there is an orchestration to the entirety of life. Everything that exists, from thought to broomsticks, is within this entirety. It is only the conditioned mind that parses everything out as if it were separate and independent. God, too, falls into this category. As you wrote, we define our world’s fragments “by arbitrarily abstracting from their unfathomable interrelations with everything else.” Well said!
The fragmenting of forms and expressions is quite useful for living in this world, but it shouldn’t be mistaken for the truth of how things really are, including what they are and what we are.
Somewhere in the middle of your article you referred to the “objective worlds of science.” Are they really objective? I don’t think so. This objectivity seems only to exist conditionally, in relation to other fragments; and the scientist, her ideas, and her equipment are also fragments. Still, science is extremely valuable within the duality that seems to exist; but its objectivity is but another thought created arbitrarily out of the “unfathomable interrelations” that constitute life.
And another thing… You suggested that “‘God’” is properly a name of the unnameable,” which points to an idea that exposes the conflict within human beings. He is unnamable and yet all of his motives are completely nameable and human. And, if God is everything, then we can name everything and therefore can name God. This is also true of each human being, which is how we can know this about God.
In conclusion:
“Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.” — Woody Allen
