The God Dilemna

Have you ever wondered who invented God? It has to be a man that did. And I don't mean that in a good way. I just can't see a woman perpetrating something so fundamentally flawed - not when they have the engine of perfect creation inside themselves. I have no trouble imagining early man kneeling before their creators and keepers of the secret of life to acknowledge female superiority. And I can imagine some spurned male (a malingering dreamer, more than likely, who would rather fake digestive distress than do an honest day's hunting) crawling off to his favourite sillyberry patch or magic mushroom ring after a good browbeating bent on getting his own back from a castrating woman. Shame, delusion and revenge sounds like a recipe for religion to me.

Really, all he'd have to do is stay away from the community for a while - long enough for everyone to start speculating of his fate. He could then return wild eyed from the wilderness, sunburnt and half mad from privation with a line of shit about visions imparted from by the maker of the WORLD - nay, of the very universe - to show his fellow MAN the error of their goddess worship. He would have planted whispers over the trench of ease, schemed in the sweet smelling smokey drugged darkness of the single men's shelter, goading the weak willed to admit his weakling's truth; a man made the world with women to serve his needs. There would have been his ordeal to consider and his former status to forget but I have no trouble imagining they bought it all in the end. The wild eyed wretch from the desert would be fed and sheltered in the most lavish style of the day for the rest of his life, provided he keep up the mindless chatter of a made up God.

Only, his disciples learned their lessons too well and took the game to a whole new level. No doubt there was a stronger, abler man who saw the prophet-weakling's work who wanted to reap the rewards for his own. He could have struck down the malingering puke and claimed God made him do it for the people's sake. His harsh, authoritarian regime would have upset more than a few willing dupes who figured that beating feet for greener pastures was the order of the day. These men could then impose the word of God with fire and sword upon pagan populations and perpetuate the vicious cycle for generations. Isn't missionary work grand? Believe me or die by the will of He who Created the Universe. Inevitably the view of who is God would mutate under the pressures of culture and geography until tribes fought each other to determine whose notion of God is more correct. They would have killed and enslaved each other over the musings of a subordinate male doper.

Just consider the world we live where "God is dead and we have killed him." Nations war with each other, all carrying the countenance of God, all his true and chosen people and people who don't even go to church cheer from both sides. Fundamentalism drives the faithful to divide their neighbours into groups who fight against each other over questions of free will, sin, freedom and the right to life itself. It's a world where those made with the engine of perfect creation inside have started to get their own back from those same men who once worshipped on their knees. Doubt, spiritual drought and indecision drive people to put their faith where they can. The flock has been disturbed by current events and longs for someone to show them a better way.

So, anyone want to help me start a new religion?