We are designed for communion. While the priority is on communion with our Creator, it seems rather necessary that we are able to commune with our own inner selves first. However, at some point you quickly run into the necessity of communion with the rest of Creation because we find ourselves inextricably a part of it, and it a part of us. This whole existence is a form of communion with our context. It requires recognizing God as a Person and His Creation as a person; at times it is alternatively many persons. At some point it requires we pull in other humans as part of the context.
Any sense of separation is falsehood, though moral reality means keeping track of that sense of separation and isolation on many levels. What separates us from God is a lie. It’s the same lie that makes us unable to commune with Creation as we were designed, and most specifically, it makes it hard for us to commune with other humans.
So on some level, if you live in this world, you are a burden on others. The question, then, is how much and what kind of burdening is appropriate compared against the revelation of God. What were His intentions for our interdependence on the rest of Creation? If you can’t sense that most humans answer this question poorly, you must be seriously morally blind. If nothing else, you would blind because there is no simple single answer. It’s not that kind of question. The question is never answered, except in the sense that once the moment is passed, you have to answer the same question again in the moments to come. We know instinctively that we cannot rewrite the past. We can pretend a lot of bullshit about the past, but the moment is gone.
What’s left in front of us is some effort to gain some clarity about the past, if only to know where we are now. However, if you assume you can somehow register in your awareness mere facts alone, you are pretending bullshit again. The most useful and important question is not really the mere facts but your moral accountability, and what God can and will do to redeem something that cannot ever be perfect. The concept alone of objective accuracy is another of those bullshit pretenses, a distraction to prevent moral accountability.
The single biggest and most complex lie we tell ourselves deals with the question of dependence. It’s all deeply entangled and massively confused. Any clarity at all is a good thing in itself, because we still must operate under the realization that it will never quite be fully detangled. We depend — that much is painfully obvious. God has asserted in no uncertain terms that we do — and that we must assume it is good, right and necessary. The confusion is upon whom and for what.
(Necessary diversion here: The accusation that we “anthropomorphize” nonhuman factors in our world is a lie. We don’t treat Creation as human; we treat Creation as living in its own right. We do so in part because it’s how God spoke to humanity in the first place. It’s the proper perspective God used to help us understand Him and His requirements. If you see Creation as inanimate and inert, you are calling God a liar. Not because we pretend it’s more than a figure of speech or symbolic language in the Bible that speaks so, but because His very actions reinforce the concept that all Creation is a living thing. All parts of it are living things in varying degrees of contextual independence. Our culture demands we ignore all this.)
We as humans depend. God explains adequately how to make the most of this so that our dependence on others feeds back to them and the rest of Creation as blessing. In various ways, on various levels and to varying degrees, we have the opportunity to bless His name and participate in His glory by how we come to grips with His way of doing things. We take our place in His Creation and find the best of all possible living.
Western Civilization as it now exists demands we submit for dependence on all the wrong points. In essence, the West is a vehicle for a whole host of evil dependence. It’s not some throw-away line to suggest that Western customs and theories were designed by Satan to keep you within his power. Not so much in terms of precise planning and design, but his plans are discernible in terms of the broader effect. He can’t keep Christ from awakening our dead spirits to eternal life, but Satan has a very effective means of ensuring we fail to share in God’s glory in the meantime. You should understand this as an active attempt to deny God the glory due Him. Being Western in itself is being a sucker for Satan’s plans, because the very foundation of what we now know of as Western Civilization was the result of suckering organized Christianity into major moral compromise.
Here’s a concrete example of how bad things are: Vaccination is not a good idea. There are better ways to do the same thing, but they aren’t efficient as Westerners view such things. However, the current vaccination procedures appear to work, in part because certain people control the flow of information. It doesn’t matter whether the people involved know that they are violating God’s revelation; they are still wrong, still promoting evil. On top of that, current vaccine production is flatly and knowingly evil because the primary consideration is profit, not human health. You would be hard pressed to point to an example of a vaccine available right now that isn’t inherently toxic. Even among those who truly believe vaccines can work are a large number of muzzled voices who aren’t happy with the vaccine industry.
As a result, it’s virtually impossible to accept vaccination without a serious risk of major debilitating toxicity. It hardly matters that every individual involved is not necessarily trying to harm you; that’s the net result. Western Civilization not only rejects the person-hood of God and His Creation, but tends to dehumanize people, as well. The powers that be are determined that this is good, right and necessary, and they’ll point guns at us to make sure it all happens that way.
What to do about that is a whole raft of other posts already published here. The main point here is that you grasp the bigger picture. So long as you believe in the system, you cannot hope to receive the blessings God offers so freely and abundantly. So long as you believe in any part of the system, you support the Devil’s work in calling God a liar. The theory itself is a lie. It’s hard to commune with God and His Creation when you still believe in the system, even if only in theory.
