God without Virtue

I was meditating on the concept of God, without virtue is but a name.

And when it comes to extreme versions of faith, whether it be Islam, Judaism, or Christianity, the man no longer fits the morals when the extreme version of that faith practice comes into place, for it is then measured by the business of God, not the belief in God. It becomes a practice absorbed in the aesthetic culture and consumption that benefits the conglomerate, the “religion” of it.

So when virtues of care, kindness, honor, good, in the sheer faith that a God or that which is bigger than you had so much love and kindness in itself, it wanted to reflect that into being. That there is something so awe-inspiring and incomprehensible that it would create the universe. That something is so in love with you she bore you into the world so that you could experience existence at its full extent, that you could think, question, taste, love, cry, and feel the sunlight.

When you disconnect the virtues, and one leaves behind the awe-inspiring, one is left with the business of religion.

Therein lies the fracture and the violence of the extreme, where the man and the morals do not fit, for they are dealing in the business, money, and control that affects the “power of God”.

All of the power, chutzpah, and weight of God in your mind's eye becomes action, and what is that action without the virtue? And so these extreme concepts of the practice, when that fracture is in places, is what reflects back to me when I think of what it is to have God without virtue. And that's what I'm meditating on now.