Monday, 25 February 2008

The history of god(s) (maybe)

Once upon a time mankind began to think, to seek reasons for all the things around him - and the world ceased to be A Better Place.
Mankind could see no reason for the natural phenomena so he decided that there just had to be an invisible world, above and controlling all nature - the supernatural, the GODS.
Now he could spend his time hiding from the wrath of the Thunder God, trying to keep the Fire God tame and trying to avoid the Big Red Spots On The Belly That You Die From God, who seemed to be in the very air around them.
Then, over many tens of thousands of years, man formed ever larger alliances and eventually nations. One of these nations came to have almost as many gods as it had people, plus one for each aspect of the world and the creatures that populated it. Another people were more economically minded and decided on only one god.
The nation of many gods had sufficient that each could chose one to reflect his individual nature and they were a diverse and colourful people. The second, an introspective people, chose one god to reflect all human nature; loving yet violent, strict yet lax, wise yet perverse, generous yet jealous, observant yet blind, strong yet weak.
Thus did each cerebralate their gods in their own image.
Thus it was, is and will be, for man will always worship what he wants.

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