An old acquaintance of mine recently posted, and then, sadly, deleted said post, on his religious viewpoints. The only point of posting this seemed to be prodding his Judeo-Christian friends to either offense or offensiveness. The views expressed were along the lines of mystic-spirituality and gnosticism. The biggest point seemed to be that God was pure will, and impersonal, and that by ‘right action’ one might attain god-likeness.

My initial reaction was what I think the piece had been calculated to occur, I was disgusted. But the more I thought about it, the more I was saddened. Yes, the belief system is in direct opposition to the Trinity, and that makes it heresy. But, among heresies, what a way to go! You see, the problem with this ideology is that it is boring. There’s no story. There’s no drama. No beauty. It is a futile attempt to avoid the dark and dreary, and so it avoids also the bright and hopeful. By removing oneself from the personal, interesting persons of the Trinity, one binds himself to uninteresting nothingness. But any separation from the Trinity is an adherence to hell. Yes, I think the word boring is one way to describe hell. God is deeply personal, and we are made in His image. In attempting to lose all personality, we lose all God-likeness. Even the deeply wicked understand who God really is before they try to be Him. They, at least, keep things interesting. But then again, perhaps boringness is evil. Because God is deeply interesting, deep uninterestingness is diametrically opposed to God, Who is pure good and truth, which makes boring spiritualism wicked and false.