The problem with fundamentalism: the size of its God.
When I was a fundamentalist, I believed in a God — specifically, a God I could understand completely. My God was restricted by my understanding of the rules and regulations. The idea of God doing anything other than what I believed God could do was ridiculous. Looking back, I worshipped a very small God indeed … a God I could fit into boxes defined by my own knowledge and understanding.
In short: I confused my ideas about God with the reality of God.
Today, I see members of my family straining against the same limitations. For many of them, God is still in the rules, and can be no bigger than the rules allow.
I prefer now an approach that says, “I don’t know enough to know everything … so how dare I bind what I understand or believe on others?” Why is that so threatening?
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