Reading about some issues over “sacred sites” and the fights people have over them (e.g. the mormons in Missouri, all of the jerusalem sites), amde me think of how the serve or don’t serve an all-powerful god(dess).
It binds the relationship with the god to a physical site. Making it possible for humans to break another human’s bond wih their god. It betrays that the god is not able to be everywhere and anywhere. It limits the god to interactions that are possible in that site. It teaches humans that as the site deteriorates, so does the god(dess).
When I think about it at length, it just seems like a terribly limiting and constraining binding on gods, clarifying how weak they really are.
Your thoughts?
It binds the relationship with the god to a physical site. Making it possible for humans to break another human’s bond wih their god. It betrays that the god is not able to be everywhere and anywhere. It limits the god to interactions that are possible in that site. It teaches humans that as the site deteriorates, so does the god(dess).
When I think about it at length, it just seems like a terribly limiting and constraining binding on gods, clarifying how weak they really are.
Your thoughts?