The God of Life

If God exists, He is neither a flag, nor a border, nor a weapon raised against another. He is not one being among beings, but the silent ground of all that breathes, of all that becomes. He is the creative principle that loves what exists simply because it exists, without exclusion, without revulsion, without a hierarchy of lives. Had He hated even a single form of being, it would never have been born. The God of Life does not march in step with armies, does not bless swords or bombs, does not rejoice in spilled blood or broken bodies. For all violence denies the other as a person and denies God at the same time. Where one kills in the name of God, God is absent. Where one tortures, humiliates, condemns to death, God is betrayed. For to take up the sword is to choose death and bind oneself to it. The God of Life does not found castes, does not divide humanity into the chosen and the rejected. He recognizes neither sacred races, nor cursed peoples, nor superior identities. Before Him, there are only faces. The relationship with God passes through the relationship with the human, through the recognition of the other as an end and not as a means. One cannot speak of God while refusing humanity. The God of Life does not rule through fear, but through mercy. He does not reveal Himself in punishment, but in restoration. His mercy embraces all things, and His justice is never vengeance. He is the breath that protects human life from its beginning to its natural end, without convenient exceptions, without political calculations. For every life carries within it the trace of the creative act. Thus, if God exists, He stands with the makers of peace, with those who refuse exclusion, with those who choose life when death is easier. And every word that claims to speak of God without respecting the human is nothing but sacred noise emptied of truth.