What’s God got to do with it?
“Pondering the imponderable is kind’a oxymoronic...”
Humanity’s relationship with God is incomprehensible...
with seemingly no beginning and a great fear of the ending, though no one knows what that ending might be...
We humans get very uncomfortable at not knowing our beginnings.....everything we seem to know here on our Earth has a beginning and an end. Except, not really.
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? It’s a great puzzlement for us, and we’ve been seeking the answer since, oh....forever and a day, however long that is....
The depth of our ignorance about the most basic things of our world is mind-boggling; and our vast knowledge, accumulated over centuries, is best described by the old joke.....half-vast.
Recently, it was reported by the national news media that the body of a legendary ‘Bigfoot’ had been found in Georgia by a pair of hunters. It didn’t take very long for it to be exposed as a hoax but, for a few people, for a few moments, primeval hope sprang full-grown to dance around the bonfire of our imaginations.
When I was a boy, some imaginative souls in Merrie Olde England perpetrated a similar hoax by ‘discovering’ the Piltsdown Man. The Piltsdown Man made it into our history books and was taught as fact to a generation before being excised. All despite the fact that the hoax had been exposed within a few weeks.
Orson Welles radio progam, “The War of Worlds” had a believing nation panic stricken for hours and in the sixties, E.T. was admonished to ‘call home’ for months.
Supposedly centuries old pictographs of spaceships and alien figures are paraded before us on a regular basis as some sort of explanation for Stonehenge, etcetera.
All of our civilizations here on Earth have similar stories of a great flood and an ark, and our mythology details similar stories of Atlantis and a fleet of ships saving a civilization from destruction by sailing to distant shores.
It seems that every few generations, humanity faces a cataclysmic event and the phrase, “Now, more than ever, humans need God!”
And, I suppose we do, otherwise we wouldn’t have invented Him. Or Her. Or vice versa. Did God create the chicken to lay the egg?
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