Godism: the way of the silent God

Words: Malachi M.D. Whippy, Esq.

For this essay the term "God" will be used for simplicity, however this may stand for God, Gods, Goddess, Goddesses or Gods and Goddesses if differentials are needed.
Likewise "Man" will be used to represent Man, Woman or Men and Women if differentials are needed.
"Himself" will also be used to mean himself, herself or their selves.

God speaks though we hear him not

God does not speak to man in words, for God is silent. God speaks to all men in feeling not language, for language is the means that man communicates with man, not God.

The Bible, Torah and Koran are words written by men to share their ideas with other men, they are not the word of God but mans own interpretations of God's will that they have felt within themselves. No man can talk for God as God is perfect and can speak for himself.

God talks to man in his heart. If we lead a good life we are happy and internally we feel joy. If we lead a bad life we are saddened and internally we feel guilt. Joy and guilt are the words of God. For God's words are feelings and feelings are God's way of letting us know that we are leading a good or bad life. To trust in one's heart is to trust in God.

Religion replaces spirituality

Before man wrote his interpretations of God's will he first spoke of it to his fellow man, this gave God a moving, ever changing, naturally flowing voice and this resulted in what we call spirituality. It was this changing voice which allowed God to flourish.

However, in time man began to write God's will and in doing so he trapped the will of God in stasis on parchment and stone. This gave God a static dead voice that would in time no longer be understood or believed by man. This was the result of man's action, not God's.

Man further went on to constrain the will of God by formulising ritual. Ritual being the restrictive static form of worship, God like all living things is moving and cannot be static, when man created ritual he in essence froze God's will at that time and although at that time it may have been God's will, moments later God's will may have changed for God is ever changing as man and indeed all life is. This means that ritual if anything does not exalt God, but imprisons his will. For by now man had stopped listening to the words of God in his heart and had begun listening to man instead.

For man's written words were now revered rather than the will of God himself and this led to internal conflict in man. When man listens to God there is no internal conflict. Internal conflict is the result of guilt and guilt is the word of God which he uses to tell man that what he is doing is wrong, this means that if man follows his written interpretations of God's will rather than his heart and as a result feels internal conflict God is telling man that these writings are wrong and as such rituals too are wrong for they are not the will of God.

God dies

As man's writings written thousands of years ago become more decrepit and arcane man disbelieves them more and more, and rightly so. For the ancient writings of man have so distorted God's will it now seems a joke, a hysterical fantasy. This is the result of man's writings, man's solid and static way of trapping God's free moving will. It is this and indeed man's "religion" that has killed God in the eyes of modern man.

God speaks

To most men now God is dead. The ancient fantasy is dead or at least man tries to believe this for despite his disbelief in the ancient writings he still feels both joy and guilt. For although man has masked God's will he can never ever silence it for God's words penetrate the spirit and give man a soul. It is only now that man has begun to listen to his heart again, it is only now that man is listening to the voice and the voice is that of God!

Religion falls, spirituality returns, God is reborn

So man can now hear God and he longs to amplify his words. The way to hear the words of God clearer is to purge oneself of the old texts written by the hand of man, to disregard the rituals written by man in the so called name of God and to embrace what one feels in his heart! God lives not in a Church, Temple or Mosque. God lives in man and it is only through man that God can live! So give God his name, live well and do as thou wilt!