People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Tree criticizes how people diminish the divine. Treating God as a minor royalty reduces spiritual reverence to formal social hierarchy.
- In plain terms
- People treat God too casually, like a small king.
- What can you take from it?
- True reverence requires seeing the divine as greater than social rank.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do you view the divine?
- What does reverence mean to you?
Another view
It assumes all believers treat God this way.
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