How can God save me from God?: Scrupulosity and Weber's Iron Cage
I savored spoken words of Scripture like they were morsels and I was a rat — a rat that scurried through the leftovers of everything divine. It was Dan Musselman's instrumental medley as I held a neon yellow Stabilo highlighter, my right hand hovering over the silky white pages of the book of Exodus 15:11, reading " Who among the gods is like you, Lord? Who is like you — majestic in holiness, awesome in glory, working wonders? " But there was a growing chasm between me and this God above gods, this Lord of lords with His unmatched holiness and working wonders. After many days turned weeks turned months, with a heart broken and battered, and a mind on the cliff's edge of sanity, I found myself asking, "How can God save me from God?" Max Weber's "Iron Cage" describes the limitation of human freedom by trapping individuals in a seemingly inescapable system of capitalism. But how does this manifest on a personal level? Through rationalization, in ...
