Diversity in human nature is not something that austerely organized religions or stubborn party-line politics have ever seriously accepted as being the intentional course of action in Creation. The demand by them is for rigid boundaries even though the universe plainly displays an infinite range of inventive configurations. The false claim of those highly methodized faith and political systems is that there is only one process by which a person may fit into the broad scheme of Creation’s diversity, and that method just happens to be their man-invented set of guidelines.
Rigid religious indulgence reduces the essence spoken of as spirit to something that amounts to identity politics, and this flies in the face of a profusion of identities that are grandly displayed throughout the universe. Whatever the creative force may be, it has never been a power that indulges in hard-edged religious, political, social or gender identities. The truth is that the perceived steadfastness in any person’s identity is a transitory illusion of the circumstances of interaction which each identity encounters. With eyes that see only exteriors, and counseled by man-conceived faiths or political practices, the masses have been led into an obtuse habit of pretending that the creative power is somehow disturbed by minor distinctions such as racial, ethnic, religious, political, sexual and such. That refusal to admit that intended diversity is what propels Creation is the hallmark of fundamentalism. Even for those who are skeptical of the fundamentalists’ narrow approach on how they think others must live their lives, the independent thinkers still tend to buckle under to peer pressure or to the media for identity clues and fail to remember that peers and the media benefit from the arbitrary identity boundaries they impose. In such an atmosphere a person may then be guardedly accepted as marginally different.
Concentrating on minor differences as though there is no interconnection to all that is perceived as reality as religious and political indulgence commonly imply only insures needless self-inflicted turmoil. The Bible, for instance, held as the standard of moral and ethical conduct, gives frequent examples in contemptuously labeling differences, and this automatically establishes and energizes abrasive power relationships. This is but a grudging rejection of the creative power in which all things are interconnected. The funny thing is that the labels they use to identify others tend to shift over time, and identities get reconstructed—re-diversified—but the interrelationship remains. A good example of this is how women, thanks to male-written scriptural tales, have had to endure centuries of being dispossessed as second class beings. This type of anti-diversity nonsense is most glaringly apparent today in some Muslim-oriented cultures. And in ignoring the fact that the creative power does not indulge in hard-edged social, religious, political or gender identities, we have been jockeyed into the concept that the law of diversity at work in Creation can be overruled by man’s bigotry.
If rightly understood, the natural multiplicity found throughout every aspect of Creation opens the means of developing working, productive alliances. The comprehension that there are no strict polarities at work in Creation would open the truly progressive way to advance into humankind’s higher potential. Creation’s diversity is the means of generating universal power, not an extravagance to be disassembled and repressed.
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