Friday, 15 January 2010

The God of bad publicity and the solution

Ok, you've placed a tree with fruit in arms reach of people you don't want near it, you've flooded a planet killing all but one family a boat full of animals. You ask someone to kill their kid and say at the last minute "Just kidding". You deliberatly harden a king's heart so he doesn't let your people go just so you can show off your might, ending in the deaths of the first born of your oppressors. You order the deaths of people in cities in your promised land except the virgin women and girls, whom can be taken as wives. You hear one of your prophets curse some children for calling him baldy, instead of telling him "suck it up, they're just kids" you decide it is better to send 2 bears to sort them out. Dispite punishing your chosen people for worshiping other gods, you think "hang on, maybe there is something wrong here. Maybe my behaviour has been questionable. Maybe I should streghten out. Nah, I'm all good. Hey Lucifer, I need you to do a favor for me" Then you kick the guy out and blame all the bad shit on him. You now set up this conflict between good (you) and evil (the other guy). You even reinforce this by sending your son to Earth, have him brutally executed and then bring him back to life after a few days (not before having him denouce your scapegoat a bit more, calling him a lair too, hey why would they doubt your word?) bring him back to life and tell everyone that they are forgiven for something their great great ansestor has done long before they were born and you no longer have to send people to your basement furnace to punish them (which you had just put up, or if you always had it, you never mentioned it before), but only if they beleive in this brutal murder. So now you have people loving you again. You also make the promise you will end this world and make a better one for the faithful. almost 2000 years later, wen asked when it's gonna happen, you reply "I'll get right on it". And people still wait.