Collecting Labels
Feb. 23rd, 2004 08:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
omorka"Thou art God(dess). All that groks is God(dess)."
I was reminded, gently, that in addition to being a polytheist, a panentheist, and an experientialist, I'm also a religious humanist. By a song about a long-distance relationship, no less. (See "music," below.)
There really is only a difference in - well, quantity is the wrong word, but in largeness and age and dimension - between beings and gods, for me. We are as they once were; as they are, we can and will become.
Therefore a song in which the singer is praying, not to a transcendent deity but to her absent lover, makes perfect sense to me, moreso than it would have if she were praying to the deity. Loving someone and worshipping them are almost (not quite, but almost) synonymous for me.
I was reminded, gently, that in addition to being a polytheist, a panentheist, and an experientialist, I'm also a religious humanist. By a song about a long-distance relationship, no less. (See "music," below.)
There really is only a difference in - well, quantity is the wrong word, but in largeness and age and dimension - between beings and gods, for me. We are as they once were; as they are, we can and will become.
Therefore a song in which the singer is praying, not to a transcendent deity but to her absent lover, makes perfect sense to me, moreso than it would have if she were praying to the deity. Loving someone and worshipping them are almost (not quite, but almost) synonymous for me.
