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Janet Kuypers Ancient Mythology may have had fantastic stories of how Gods would battle each other, but Gods have been developed by man to explain mysteries to us mere mortals: Pray to the Sun God. Chant for the Rain God to create the crops and satiate our simple survival. But as I see it, as time wore on, the Gods we all claim to revere seemed to stop quarreling amongst themselves, because... (and wait a minute if they are Gods, shouldn’t they have figured this out before?) But the Gods figured out that instead of battling each other, mere humans are much easier targets. And when that gets dull, why not let the idiotic masses do the killing themselves? Because sure, in the Old Testament a God punished Adam and Eve, not because Eve ate from the Tree of Knowledge, but because she convinced a man that knowledge might be a good idea. And sure, there’s a flood (a pretty big one at that), there’s a mass killing of first-born sons unless you put lamb’s blood in a cross on your door. Sure, I get it, there’s violence there — but in the New and improved Testament, they say to be kind, to turn the other cheek. But now we’re reduced to humans who fight in the name of God, and if we humans got any of our Coliseum-themed blood lust from our Gods, they must be having a field day watching us destroy ourselves. It may have taken those Gods too many millennia to figure it out, but now that they’ve let their violent side fester in us for long enough, those Gods now can just sit back and watch us mere mortals as a really entertaining show. |
