Concepts of God (or Not)
Description:
Report on a study of different ways that Quakers in one community conceptualize God.
Report on a study of different ways that Quakers in one community conceptualize God.
Here is a strange simile: God is like the parallel plates of a capacitor, and we are the molecules of dielectric between them.
A capacitor is formed from two flat sheets of metal; they do not contact each other, but are connected through a source of power. Electrons from one plate move to the other, impelled by the voltage across the plates.
Who needs magic letter-counting
or a network of psychic friends
when the last poem I wrote
was about seeing the face of God
in the rind of an orange I had forgotten
I’d left in a desk drawer the day before?
