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The real storyThe time the Bible was created was a time when every natural occurring event on earth was looked upon as being constructed by a spiritual force. Also only the very rich were educated and able to read and write. And only the rich hang with the rich. So what would they want to do? Well being rich is great so they would want, most of all, to stay rich. And they know they are rich only as long as no one comes and takes it all away from them. So how could they stop that from happening? Well, let’s see now… ah! Create an idea that would make the general population fear eternal punishment for doing wrong to others. If you catch a thief you can put him in jail. But if you don’t he will just keep on being a thief. But if he is taught to think he will still have to answer for his crimes even if he never gets caught then you might have a good deterrent. After all, people have always felt there is some kind of God out there in the stars. And to make it more effective we will create this bad guy, call him Satan, and make everyone feel he is waiting there when you die to take you away to a horrible place of suffering if you have been bad.
So we, who can write, will make a book. And we will not reveal the authors of it and we will say that it is the actual word of this God; that everyone suspected was out there anyway. We are rich and we have much time on our hands because our every need is taken care of. So for years we get together and write and rewrite and add and take way and by golly, when it is all finished, we have a book that has much wisdom, a few contradictions but on the whole just what we need to keep all the little people in line forever. And where pray tell did we get all this information? Did we just pull it out of our dull imaginations? Heck no! We took old legends and beliefs from long ago and just kind of changed them a little so they fit our goals.
Well for a long time this goes over quite nicely. Then darn it! Wouldn’t ya know? The real God, that was out there all along, gets wind of it and decides to send a representative down here and straighten us all up once and for all. So he sends his son because he knows this lad can get things done for sure. But his son gets murdered by the same people he is sent to help. And to make things worse, the things his son says, that are very important by the way, are not written down. And when they are written down some fifty years later they have been changed, once again, to meet the goals of the people writing them down.
Well God gets mad again. But this time he decides to just ignore us and let us all suffer in our confusion and madness for a while. Then he finally gets over the anger phase of his emotions and decides to try one more time. Now he has an idea he feels will do the trick for sure. He starts appearing to people who have died and telling them to go back and tell the others that we are doing it all wrong. That we just need to love each other and be helpful to each other and try not to think too much about who he is or any of that mess but rather concentrate on being nice and taking good care of the planet that he gave us.
Now some people don’t like that when they hear it. They have jobs that depend on people coming together, in the name of the God they wrote about, and donating money to them so they can live quite well. If people knew that all they needed to do was be nice to one another and take care of the planet then they wouldn’t have a need for the services of an organization that depends on their money to exist. Additionally, there are others that feel that is just too simple. They feel they have to have a place to congregate and pray for their nasty sins they have been enjoying all week so they can feel much better about it. I mean really, they are sure they must do it this way or they will just fall to pieces. Besides, they kind of like being able to be mean toward others then just go wipe it all away at the end of the week with their usual routine of prayers. Then there are the ones that didn’t believe in any kind of God in the first place. They don’t like to hear people talking about dying and seeing a God and being told all these helpful things. Why? Because they kind of like being nonbelievers. After all they can do anything they want to without any remorse or worry about having to be punished for it. If they have to give up all the things they enjoy doing so much, well, it just wouldn’t be any fun here anymore for them now would it?
So what do people do when they hear about these new messages from God? They do as they have always done. Just keep things the way they are so they can continue to fight and squabble about who God is, and who is right about the way to believe in this God, and what this God really wants us to do, and that the book that was written on the subject must be right because we are always right, and I’ll be damned if I will let somebody criticize my way of believing; and all that nonsense.
And quietly, from space, it is observed a planet, spinning away toward the future with the biggest fools in the universe at the controls.
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