Marcus aka Gregory Maidman
2 min readNov 17, 2023

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I've seen Elizabeth say that God is monstrous in many of my pieces. I choose to ignore. Your take on what she's saying by reference to one of your sacred texts is a good effort. I put very little stock in any sacred text from any religion as they and all religions were invented by humans, often misunderstanding "God" and usually by men and often not with good intentions. Probably the first proper story I ever posted on Medium on Nov 1, 2020 was "Why is it so Easy for People to Believe the Most Obvious Lies yet Require Proof of God?

Conversely, Why Does this Walking BS Detector not Believe 90% of Peoples’ Claims Yet Firmly Believe in Eternal Souls and God(s)?" (https://medium.com/p/339a2a07cc4f). I wrote (among more of course):

"Every religion is flawed. Religions are designed by humans. Humans are flawed. Thus religious view of God are flawed....Religions have been designed to be believed and thus construct God as a deliverer of human wants if we do as we are told, which God is not. So people either blindly believe in God because the lie of what God is is believable, or reject God because the God defined by religions cannot co-exist with the reality that most people do not get what they want, or are not actually happy, and a world full of seemingly senseless tragedy and really bad things happening to good people.

So my view, which I shall deliver as a truth but the fact is it would be hubris for me to proclaim that I can actually understand the Universe:

'God' does not care anything about money, politics, war, famine, or even who lives or dies, [emphasis added] and to the extent God affects any such outcomes it is only to keep things from going too far off the improv-script. Nor do the Gods give a hoot about religions, as religions arise from the human need to construct a controlling mechanism."

Elizabeth sees that as monstrous. I do not. She sees that as monstrous because she has a different POV on what life is about than I do, and I suspect than you do.

Now let me bring this back to your title and that God is everything. Yes, God is everything. The good, the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, because God and the divine spark is in each and every one of us and the rest of creation. I wrote a one-line tanka more than a couple of years ago:

"Everything Everything there is and Everything past All that never came to be and Everything that will last"

I had God in mind when I wrote that. Interestingly, I read a piece not too long ago that I will not be able to find now that said the poem I wrote, which is also your thesis, is the most direct translation of one of the Hebrew words for God found in the Torah (Old Testament).

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Marcus aka Gregory Maidman
Marcus aka Gregory Maidman

Written by Marcus aka Gregory Maidman

Living 17,043rd human life. I am Marcus (universal name) or you may call me Greg; a deep thinker; an explorer of ideas and the mind.

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