God, many believe,created man in his own image. Well, God is not there with me to testify the fact and the results will have me believe that he made a hash of it. If this was not worrisome enough Adam's progeny decided to give their Creator stiff competition and voila! There it was, a God created in man's image. And in the art of duplication, man outsmarted God. So it happened that the Creator of the earth, heavens, galaxies without whose express will not a leave moves, became angry, wrathful, vengeful, a sucker for sycophancy, a sexist, a racist and a secret service chief whose highly effective team of angels kept a keen eye on the acts of ommission and commision of mankind, in order to nail the defaulters with incontrovertible proof as and when required.
Wish the anthropomorphic evolution of the Almighty had stopped at this. But it was not to be so. God acquired blond or black hair, blue or black eyes, dark or fair skin in keeping with the geogrphical location of his creators. Thus it came to pass that the Lord acquired a distinct European and Asian identity. The one God had begun dividing.
Then came the final nail in the coffin. Scriptures have it that God prefered certain people over others and entered into a Covenant with them. He gave them Commandments the adherence to which would ensure them permanent residence in God's coveted heavenly abode in the hereafter. This policy of divide and rule sounded the gun for mankind's race to be 'the' darling of their Father in Heaven. So were born People of the Book. All claiming to be God's chosen ones. Each claiming to be the sole proprietor of the 'truth' revealed by Him through Ezra, Elijah, Jesus, Muhammed.... Each accusing the other of reneging on the pact with God and of alone honouring the Divine commandments in toto. The one God further divided into many.
When words alone failed to win them supporters and establish their hegemony over the believers and the non-believers, out came the swords. The many Gods acquired henchmen. Gang war ensued. They killed, maimed, threatened, bribed, coerced people to acknowledge that their Master was the original while others were but cheap imitations. Nations were torn assunder and mass-scale purging of the 'opposed' ensued. They accused one of being 'Christ killers' and exterminated six million of them. Then the remaining two crossed swords over charges of messing with the word of God to suit convenience, maligning their respective prophets, blasphemy... the bodies continued to pile. The transformation was complete, God had become Man.The division was complete, the one God had become many Man-Gods. So, each Man-God, fights on for the right to be 'the' God. His loyal followers use guns, bullets, bombs, besides brutal physical repression to silence opposition and to drive fear into the hearts of the non-believers. So an inseccure Man-God, utterly consumed by his passion to be the one and only, creates an army of loyalists, who kill and get killed to maintain the sanctity of His turf.
Blood continues to flow freely as man fights the never-ending battles of the Gods whom he had fashioned in his image.
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I think that each man was given the power to make choices. Some made choices which elevated human thinking to a higher level of consciousness and some made choices which were detrimental for the race. Both were quite sure about their convictions.
ReplyDeleteAmazingly there has been a vast majority which has just chosen to be bystanders. I wonder what mankind's history would have been had this population made intelligent choices.
Not by standers, followers! Followers usually leave it to the leader to apply his mind they are content with carrying out the orders. And no not all religions give man choice to exercise free will, some explicitly state over and over again that even an ioata of doubt will damn them to eternal perdition. The term 'higher level of consciouness' is itself an anatehma to followers of certain religion. Even then Political and social circumstances shape and in turn are shaped by forces sometimes beyond our comprhension.
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