Counter-Intuitive Theology

 "You become what you hate" - yoga maxim

Logical Interrogation of a Weird Premise (if the maxim is true, then it follows...):

Only God is good.  Therefore, God makes us hate him.  Hating God is good, because it makes us Godly (into God, Himself, Ourselves)! Conversely, hating the devil is bad.  God doesn't want us to become evil.  Hating hate makes us haters.  Be pro-peace, not anti-war, as they say.  You should love the devil.   The devil needs love, like anybody and everybody else.  Also, there's a corollary concept:  God makes himself appear imperfect, to create hate.  We couldn't hate him if he was always (of the appearance of being) perfect.  God goes beyond logic.  Buddhist koans are irrational.  Good theology is provocative, inflammatory.   Resentment is hypnotic.   God makes himself an enemy, as a form of control.   God is a man of war.   Psy-war against war.   Psychological warfare.  Mind control.  Public Relations.  Maybe Putin isn't as demonic as everyone thinks, these days.  A clear view shows us that making the devil (war crimes, aggression vs. a sovereign country/innocent civilians) is part of the dialectic that makes love.  This seems insane and psychotic, at first blush (maybe it is.  I'm making the case to myself, here).  But yin makes yang.   Opposites are complementary, interconnected, and interdependent.   Psychiatrists have the term, abreaction (cathartic release of repressed emotions associated with a past trauma, relived):  Make love, not war!  God is love.  Being hated and berated, results in transformation, of identity, psyche, personality of the haters.  Don't be a hater?  That goes against human nature.  If you hate God, you become a lover!  Like loving Christopher Hitchens, :-).  God is cruel to be kind (in the right measure).  Don't go overboard, like, say, Hitler (who, it turns out, wasn't all bad).  The arc of the moral universe is long, and bends toward justice.  If God is in control, then it (really) is all good.   I mean, if you want to retain belief in The Almighty.   Thank God I'm an atheist!  Atheism, according to some Hindus, is a path to God, too.   Maybe I'm crazy.  It's a mad world.   Being God is, of course, madness.  Being mad is sane, for a deity, (i.e an agent of virtue).  Is the joke on me?

Stunningly nuts!!, devil lived, dog of war - raw of god, damned mad, irrational : I.R.  rational (to ear), atheist as ace-theist, take me into your arms / army, hizbullah - army of god, I'm shot (a good knight's sleep), man of war ("mowing the lawn"), Jesus came not to bring peace but a sword, fighting and fig trees..

a different line of thought:  love and rockets, guns and roses, killing joke, dying with laughter, mockery, and I'm not believing myself, madness - talking to yourself... the truth with unfold with time, history as origami, invasion and outvasion (get out, devil), expulsion and ex-spell (breaking the spell), victim victory and eviction!  russian rush, haste makes waste, wasted on vodka, drunk like an exsanguinated v.v. (vampire victim), mosquitoes and mosques, insects in sects, thirst and AA: suffering, a result of Attachment/Aversion, the ghost of boo!-dism, alive awake and aware, conscious of convictions

thoughts ideas concepts, counter-intuitive theology, CIT (counselor in training), tic-tac, tick attack, TikTok 

Ukraine vs. Russia

If and when both sides realize it’s pointless and hopeless, maybe they’ll stop

Putin just wants to be loved!

Inapt and inept, listening and glistening, seeing and fleeing

aces, ambient contemplative electronic space (music)

peter parkour, crunk, capoeira, breakdancing, michael jackson

  so you think you can dance, dancing with the stars, dance party

  voguing, solid gold dancers, ballet, soul train

“diamonds are a dime a dozen” (a box of rocks)

Tears and smiles:  Tyranny, for miles;  T. rex and Smilodon

Forgive and forget, fender bender, car scar

Monica vs. Karen, harm monica vs. caring, harmonica and cairn

   Disliking Mike, hating Kate, and loving Duv, a pre she 8ed

Tupi or not Tupi, that is the question!  2b ore knot toobie

hematophagy/exsanguination, anthropophagy, theophagy

SMH Stalin Mao Hitler (shaking my head)

Hitler responsible for 11 million (non-combatant) deaths

    (but may not have actually killed anyone, himself)

"the difference between 1 and 0 is infinite" 

    (as anyone who has lost a loved one knows)

...have the Jews become Hitler?!

the dove above, overheard, overhead

I went where it took me.  I guess the premise is false.

The premise had some promise.  Reductio ad absurdum?

God, reduced to absurdity.  That's Biblical: Vanity of vanities, 

     all is (frustration, futility, absurdity, nonsense)

no, this isn't a R.A.A. argument

Death, hated (anagram)

Now I am become Death, destroyer of worlds -Hindu scripture

  (quoted by Oppenheimer)