Flaws abound

We look at the world through flawed lenses. This is the human experience. No matter how hard we try, no matter how much effort we put in life, no matter how close we think we are to the truth — how we see the world will always be flawed. This has a range of effects on people.

Some will experience the flawed lens and push themselves in the direction of perfecting what they are seeing. This usually leads to an over emphasis on getting it right or being concerned with being right. This concern is an over correction though. This leads to a whole range of -isms. Humanity has been coming up with all sorts of -isms as a guide to put people on the “right” path and to be correct.

But each -ism has positives and negatives. And each -ism still can’t escape the flaws inherent in humanity. That’s because -isms are created by people. It doesn’t matter which -ism we are talking about.

I’ll take one example — fundamentalism. A fundamentalist outlook on the world offers clarity and certainty. Fundamentalism offers answers to every question. You know whether you are right or wrong. There is a feeling of control.

If you consider those things a positive, you must also know that it is those very things that are also fundamentalism’s biggest weakness and flaw. There is no room for mystery. There is no room for God being bigger than the box we try to put God into. There is no flexibility. Fundamentalism takes an existing body of knowledge and beliefs at a specific time and assumes that this body is universal across all time and space…