Arguments are ‘aplentiful about right and wrong.

Relationships fall apart over this need to be right and to have the other be wrong. Groups band together in righteousness to conquer the wrong. Wrong is called transgression (and worse). It is taken personally. Wars are fought. People are killed.

It is good to be right. It feels good to have your ‘opponent’ shown to be wrong. To have law and violence on your side in this “showing” feels powerful.

But, law and the concept of right are only rough, approximate languages invented by man to grasp at the meaning of an abstract thing. Law and the concept of right are like the language of a math formula: S=[n(n+1)]/2, for example. It is an almost indecipherable formula slapped onto an underlying ‘reality’. The “reality/correct answer” can be approached in several different ways, requiring varying efforts and time commitments. Say that n equals one hundred for example. The answer could laboriously be arrived at adding sequential numbers one at a time until the answer 5,050 is derived. Or, one could write (or picture in the eye) an array of all the numbers and realize that they can be paired off into sets: i.e. one pairs with ninety-nine, forty-nine pairs with fifty-one, and so on and so forth with everything in between. One could write (or picture in the eye) that there would be fifty such pairs, leaving over a lone fifty in the middle left out like an outlier or a sore thumb. Adding all the fifty pairs of one hundred would make 5,000 and topping the cake with the outlier/sore thumb fifty makes 5,050. Or, quickly, one could plug in the number one hundred to the formula. Voila: 5,050.

Now this is just an abstract example (posing as a concrete example) of an abstract concept.

About the law: remember that it was said by a man who does indeed know that law is only necessary and imposed because our hearts are hard.

Our understanding just isn’t there. This includes the understanding of what is actually behind our manly concept of right, i.e. righteousness. It is truly unknowable on material earth. Yet, we fight. People die.

It is the ultimate irony starched on an ironing board of irony stretched ironically that we band together and we fight and we kill and we die and people are killed and people die over the concept of the law of right versus the transgression of wrong. We receive a jolt/epiphany when we awaken to the truth that it is the ultimate statue worship and the ultimate assumption of the role and power of the Creator when we can finally “get it” that the always and everywhere of the creation can only be known by the Creator. We have to know that we have no business in the know business. But we don’t. We know enough to stand up and fight for what we “know” to be right.

The taking of any life in the always and everywhere by anyone lives in a pretty righteous town and how can only be wrong, which is not right.

We are incapable of knowing. Yet, for safety’s sake, we kill in the name of the one who does know and for the unknowable Creator who created know.