We all do it. The only question is whether we recognize it when we do it, and then, what we do about it.

I am speaking of me-ing and other-ing. Some of it is quite innocent and sweet, as when we look into our pet’s eyes and see our own love reflected back at us. Imagining, for example, that our dog or cat or python loves us as we love it. That is me-ing. Projecting upon another creature characteristics and capacities we prize and cherish about ourselves.

Those who don’t know better would say that religion is nothing but one great me-ing enterprise, infusing God with human attributes. Thomas Jefferson thought so even while being a theist (believing in a Creator). “ … The God in which (Jefferson) believed was not the traditional Christian divinity. Jefferson rejected the notion of the Trinity and Jesus’ divinity. He rejected Biblical miracles, the resurrection, the........

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