How do you get the point across to someone who keeps missing the point that points aren't all that worth missing? What must you say to make the point that points don't always help in pointing the way to the Point of the points?

What is it with theology's obsession with dogma and creeds? As if reciting something keeps me 'within the bounds'? Even Schopenhauer, an agnostic philosopher, pointed to music. Why? Because points couldn't exhaust his points. At most he could point to something and say, Just look. That's what I mean, that's what you have to feel. And if you must ignore everything else I've said, so be it. I'm not gonna eat your lunch.

But tradition is so amazed by the glory of its own theology, it's blur to the light of theology's very raison d'ętre. Wear some shades, will you! Listen to the people!

Logic, criticism and analysis don't move you further. They clarify what's in the present. You need synthesis, provocation and suspension (of logic, of judgment) to construct the future.

Minds holding nothing more than who's right who's wrong who's in who's out are empty ones indeed. They see nothing they haven't seen before, they say nothing new, they build more and more scaffolds around the same structures but never break new ground. They're so enchanted by their correctness, they don't realise their irrelevance. They're so charmed by polishing and policing the border lines of the community they forget that the community serves, in fact, those outside the community i.e. people looking in the frontiers, people observing from the edge, people wondering what the value is of getting in.

Who cares? Why care? What's so special about this new breed of walkers and talkers?

The world longs to see what's so different about this new community, this alternative people, this fresh humanity. It's really, contra the defenders of orthodoxy, NOT about truth, about dogma points – which system doesn't have its plethora of truth-claims (Marxism, fascism, Hinduism, etc.)? It's NOT, contra the legalists, about holiness – which leader haven't talked about proper behaviour, don'ts don'ts and more don'ts (Islam, Robert's Rules of Order, etc.).

It's about sacrifice. No greater love. True, self-giving, all-giving friendship. The kind which accepts death on behalf of those who would destroy life. Transforming compassion. Life means dying for someone, not patting ourselves on the back when we can show them they're mistaken. Which worldview marks itself by this? Which people? Which leader? Which God?