We cannot fully know the Infinite – and pretending otherwise is itself a spiritual problem. But my deepest issue with Christian certainty is how easily it turns into hierarchy, quietly teaching us that some people are more worthy, more saved, or more loved than others. Once that hierarchy takes root, it reshapes our inner landscape, training us – often without our awareness – to see the world in tiers of worth.

I can’t separate these theological questions from the world we’re living in right now. When we divide people into the saved and the unsaved, the righteous and the fallen, the worthy and the expendable, we are rehearsing a way of seeing that makes harm imaginable … and then, eventually, permissible. We are living in a time when people are being othered, dehumanized, and targeted with frightening ease, and I keep wondering whether our theologies have prepared us for this moment — or even subtly trained us to accept this “othering.”

Love cannot coexist with hierarchy, and anything that teaches us to rank human worth will eventually erode our capacity to see one another as fully human.

The video is my getting to this awareness in real time.