Cosmic Treason

It is no offense against reality to shrug off the dictates of a hypocritical, tyrannical, or otherwise irrational leader when needed.  Any ruler could label the process of challenging their arrogance or broader stupidity treason, but the context and the nature of the person who is being rebelled against are the only things that could determine if the treason is truly unwarranted.  It is not rationally or morally problematic at all to have a "treasonous" attitude towards a government or some individual by default.  There is, however, a type of being for which this could not be true.  God, or the uncaused cause, has a higher metaphysical status than any person or collection of persons.

The uncaused cause is the only being whose moral commands could have any true weight, and it is thus cosmic treason to think that personal preferences could ever justify avoiding even the slightest moral demand from such a being.  There is no other entity that could have moral authority.  In fact, even on a purely utilitarian level, there could not be a being which rebellion against could have greater pragmatic consequences.  An uncaused cause could be capable of removing humans or other entities from existence with a thought (though this power would depend on the broader nature of the uncaused cause, as simply preceding and creating the universe and lesser beings does not mean something has this ability).

This is the only treason that could possibly be directly tied to the nature of the being which the opposition is directed towards: refusing to submit to and even hating or fighting a human could be a rational or morally obligatory thing to do, but hating or waging any kind of war, ideological or an attempted literal war, against the uncaused cause would immediately mean moral or utilitarian doom.  Cosmic treason against the uncaused cause is the only treason against another being that matters in any sort of ultimate sense.  If Christianity is true, this is why Leviticus 24:15-16's prescription of the death penalty for blasphemy (cursing God).

Cursing God is more than just expressing personal but pointless dissatisfaction with the idea of an uncaused cause or the actual uncaused cause that by logical necessity preceded the cosmos; it is to curse the only possible moral authority that could exist as if subjective passion could philosophically justify such a thing.  If the uncaused cause did have a certain kind of moral nature from which it follows that blasphemy is a cosmic treason, then it could not be overkill to execute those guilty of this offense.  Of course, cursing God does not entail the petty and imaginary "sins" of uttering phrases like "oh my God," contrary to what evangelicals like to pretend, so blasphemy is so much more than what it is often taken to mean.

Indeed, the pathetic misconception that using the word God as a slang word, like how one might use profanity, is a variation of blasphemy severely trivializes the concept of cursing God--not to mention how it is equated with using God's "name" in vain when this is not so, partly because the word God is not a name, but a reference to a metaphysical category.  Since Leviticus 24:15-16 specifically refers to intentionally cursing God as blasphemy, it is incorrect to think that anything less than this, whether it even is or is not sinful in the first place, constitutes blasphemy within the framework of Christianity.  Only the malicious cursing of the uncaused cause (not that a mere person has any way of directly harming a true deity in the strictest sense) amounts to the cosmic treason Leviticus takes so seriously that it classifies it as a capital crime.