Mankind’s Affair with God(s)

They could not hope for life everlasting, or wish that suffering might end. They simply had to make do with existence as it stood before them, filled with what joy, happiness, pleasure it offered, and cope with the difficulties and hardships that could not be avoided. The Gods, as they surely had to be to exercise such awesome control, were by turn cruel and generous, but ever present.

And so the Gods, in their finite and diverse wisdom, deemed that all Men might just be better off if they could save themselves from boredom and doom, which arose from all the wondrous unattainable fruits of discovery their minds could easily conceive of as they gazed into the stars, only to find their mortal, frail bodies unable to reach these lofty goals. The Gods therefore became One, a sole occupier of the astral lights and mystic powers of the cosmos, a hard-loving Father of humanity that could be better accertained by his mortal children. And the prescribed order would be set before them, so that each could know, for absolute certain, that everlasting existence beyond the (petty) mortal plane of reality might be achieved by means of virtuous lifestyle; one within which it was still possible, of course, to slaughter the demonic unbelievers and other heretics. For what man, mere, simple man, could possibly dare to not believe? Who, or what, could defy the God of all mankind? His absolute truth?

Man and their God grew stronger, as mankind eroded. Superstition would be truth, fiction would be fact, and all the people of the world would know their Master. The sky would be the limit, for past it only doubt and uncertainty could be found.

The dream, however, could not be extinguished. No matter how forcefully it might be repressed by those who preferred not to gaze upon the cold, deep beauty of the star lit heavens. For beyond the skies, their minds forced a fearful truth upon a pyramid of profound belief that could not stand to this assault of Logic and Reason, and this new mind would stike at the very Creator of the universe.

The men, however, had become quite attached to their God, and saw all that was just and right within their world as being of Him, and could not accept that their morality was founded upon a comforting illusion. There would be brutal conflicts, the worst inhumanities, as mankind embraced the Logic and Reason that had lay dormant in their minds, while reconquering the very rules that all men had set themselves before the first man ever conceived of a god, any god, when the earth beneath him shook or the skies sent down loud, destructive beams of focused energy upon his planet. Enlightentment and peace would walk alongside terror and brutality, for the former had wrought the latter. Not deliberately, of course, but such was the price of the pyramid’s fall, from which an absolute God would never recover.

The dark tunnel that mankind has had to traverse is now ending, and leaves a world of possibilties for those who will carry the torch of enlightenmant into the future. The God, and all other Gods, are dying, and giving their very best to survive. Will they succeed?

As always has been, the answer is within Man himself. Through all the best, and the worst, that we have ever done, the sole responsible has been mankind, either individually or collectively.

Man is his only enemy. And savior.

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