"God" is a completely subjective concept, and a personification of that. 'God' is infinite good. We need, however, the devil, to be able to 'know' god.
This is why Trump and Maga, etc. is useful. If not for these 'evil' actors we would not be able to coalesce around the concept of good and act to promote 'good'.
My idea of 'god' comes from Kierkegaard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B8ren_Kierkegaard
And my ideas about the need to 'coalesce', meaning our need to have directed action, and not be lost in our own individual lives completely, to act together for good, is inspired by an article about Kingsnorth. Here is a quote:
"The Machine is both an old idea and a modern curse. As a metaphor, it whirred to life in the seventeenth century, when Descartes, Hobbes, and Boyle imagined nature as glorified clockwork. Since the nineteen-sixties, it has been a countercultural refrain: we fight the Machine, rage against it, or feel ourselves feeding it. Kingsnorth's conception encompasses all these modes. He's talking about the actual devices that chew through the Earth and spit out waste, and also about a machinelike cast of mind: automatic, unreflective, content to produce and consume in an endless cycle. Capitalism, which lubricates the Machine, has fostered a mania for measurement that has steered public policy for decades, reduced our values to financial value alone, and scorned ideas like heritage and tradition--all that we love but cannot count."
My idea being that we feel lost and unable to deal with the good parts of our life, because we don't even see them in perspective, without evil. God needs the devil.
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