God Knows
A large part of most religions is an attempt to understand God. To know him. To know what he thinks and what he wants. Based on the many conversations I’ve had with him, I’ve gotten the distinct impression that he feels this is not something of which we are capable.
In the book Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein created the word grok, which one character defines as “to understand so thoroughly that the observer becomes a part of the observed.” The main character of the book, a martian named Smith, only understands the concept of God as “one who groks,” and so takes to telling people that “thou art God.” Now I’ve often heard it said that God is inside of everyone, a part of everyone, so in that sense it would seem that just by being human we grok God to a certain extent, which might explain why there is a nearly universal attraction to religion.
In any event, it struck me as an interesting notion that to know God is to be God, while, at the same time, to be religious is to admit to not knowing God.
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