Perfection is Imaginary
People complain about god a lot for something that’s supposed to be perfect, without the ability to find fault. This particular contradiction appears to have mostly bypassed philosophical attention. In religious thought, the general consensus is that people’s imperfection makes them whiny, and that it is both negligible and proof of people’s imperfection.
The complaints, if you listen to them, are mostly about expectations and the tendency of the world not to meet people’s expectations. Those expectations are, whether the person acknowledges it or not, primarily about the way the person would like to interact (and feels entitled to interact) with the world around them, which they blame god for. There is a world which they feel they should be experiencing, and whether they mumble a few words about sin or personal fault, there is a template which they are comparing god and/or their world to, and the criteria are not matching.
If god is without fault, something has to be at fault, because the template of their expectations doesn’t match.
Consider the idea of perfection, of being without fault, without flaw. Consider the idea that the world might not be matching the template, that god might not be matching the template, and you’re forced to conclude there might be something wrong with the template. This is where most people immediately default to a combination of blaming their own capacity to understand and looking for a better template.
It is the template that is the problem, and like most ideas about perfection, the root is “I want it to be this way because it makes me feel better.” It’s fear of change, in a cheap mustache and a trench coat.
In fact, it’s the idea that there is a template, that perfect can exist and it is something that should be achieved or at least an aspiration. This is tidy, because you can aspirationally ignore evidence to the contrary, as people do.
God is not perfect, because the divine does not resemble our expectations. Our expectations of perfection have no relationship to the world around us or to the divine. If they did, someone would have found the right template by now, as diligently as people have looked for it. Fortunately for all of us, god is incomprehensible.
Consider that there is no perfect, just a delusion people find comforting to compare to the world around them.
Consider dropping that delusion. Complain merrily about the world around you. Complain merrily about your expectations. Complain about whatever you wish—you don’t need to fit any template to god or the world around you.
The only thing it’s going to do is harm you.
