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How to Conceive of God without Anthropomorphism
Mordecai M. Kaplan[See the Introduction to the Kaplan blog. And don't forget to read Dr. Mel Scult, Kaplan's biographer, "response" to Kaplan. Ed.]
Monday July 13, 1936
The main difficulty in effecting the transition from the anthropomorphic to a rational conception of God could be overcome, it seems to me, by the following approach: accustom yourself to the thought that the reality of God cannot be grasped by any effort at visualization.
Without in any way inferring that godhood is a force in the same sense that electricity is a force, resort to the analogy of electricity. The reality of electricity is not experienced by any of the five senses. An electric shock is experienced by the muscle nerves.
Likewise the reality of godhood is experienced not by any of the physical senses but by the mind in its emotional functioning. When you are happy to the point of gratitude, or when you react to anything with a genuine feeling of holiness, you are actually experiencing God in the same sense as a feeling of shock is evidence of your contact with electricity.
The fallacy which has to be unlearned—an unlearning in which the analogy to electricity may be of help—is that any experience of God must, like the experience of our neighbor's presence, apprehend Him in his entirety.
This is where anthropomorphism throws one off the track. Habituate yourself to the idea that it is no more possible to be aware of the whole of God in any single experience than it is to sense all of electricity in a single shock. The fallacy of identifying any one experience or even cluster of experiences as the revelation of Deity in His fullness gives rise to idolatry.
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Even after all this time , there are still people who think that you did not believe in God. Of course, you dismissed the supernatural concept of God rather early in your life, but you continued to think about God all the time.
You argued that the understanding of the divine in the universe is a life long task and we can only grasp it in small steps.
I appreciate the practical approach you take in this diary entry. You are trying to be helpful to real people in pointing out the similarity between the divine and electricity. You have acknowledged the tendency we all have to see God in human form.
We may not think of God physically but we always tend to use human images. While these are sometimes useful we must be careful to remember that such concepts are only aids to us in our spiritual life and do not describe the divine.