And Brainstorms; A ... | Conceiving God: Perversions

Ultimately, "Conceiving God" is a cycle of building a mental model (the brainstorm) and then realizing its limitations (the perversion). It is a process of "un-knowing"—breaking the old images to find something deeper beneath the brainstorm.

Psychoanalysts might argue that an obsession with a punishing God is often a perversion of human guilt or a desire to see one's enemies suffer, externalized into a divine mandate. The Brainstorm as Revelation Conceiving God: Perversions and Brainstorms; A ...

This views the divine as a celestial vending machine. Through "Prosperity Gospel" or rigid legalism, the brainstorm becomes a contract: "If I do X, God must provide Y." Ultimately, "Conceiving God" is a cycle of building

The ultimate tension lies in the fact that to "conceive" of something infinite using a finite brain is, by definition, a failed brainstorm. Every concept we create is a "perversion" because it is a reduction. As the philosopher Xenophanes famously noted, if horses had hands and could draw, they would draw their gods looking like horses. The Brainstorm as Revelation This views the divine