New God(dess)

We have a new religion in town, and there is a goddess that we worship in association with it. We call her by many names, here are but a few: Mother Earth, Mother Nature. (okay, two is not always a few, but I think the cold medicine is kicking in now)

How did gods come into being? Way back when, when someone who was obsessive-compulsive did something wrong (slept with one's sister, cheated on one's husband, etc) and something bad happened (ie a drought, a plague, indigestion, etc), it was obviously some force external to the person who was doing this to him. But who? Obviously someone who has the same motivations as him, since he was being punished for what he considered wrong. Obviously someone with more power than he, since this being could inflict damage on him without being seen. This damage inflicter, lets call him god, obviously was upset but really didn't know the language of the land very well, so he hurt a lot of people for the transgressions of a few people rather than just saying "Stop it". This was god's will.

Now that we are becoming enlightened in this country and this modern age, we know such things are foolish! How could such a god exist and science not be able to prove it? Obviously, there is no god. But, how about a vengeful goddess, who is upset with our wicked way?!

Gods are the height of human arrogance. There are these beings out there who are so powerful, that we cannot even begin to comprehend their powers! They encompass large parts of the universe! And yet they have nothing better to do than watch you as you pleasure yourself when no one is looking? And then cause a massive heatwave killing millions just to show you what you did was wrong? To watch you when you are sleeping? To watch your every thought to know if they are bad or good? Kind of like some jolly old man in a red suit? You know, your perverted Uncle Gary?

But, with a goddess, she is saddened because we are hurting her. sniffle. She just wants us to stop it. Sure, she could wipe us off of her face, but she doesn't want to. So, every time we commit a sin against her, she will give us hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, grass fires, volcanoes, etc. Human arrogance. We think that we can affect something as large as the Earth? Do you know how big it really is? Do you know how much non-human biomass there is? Do you know that our kind is only here because the true rulers of this planet were killing themselves with their own toxic waste?

Plants thrive on C02. Can't get enough of it. But they produce a nasty corrosive gas as a byproduct, Oxygen. We had to come along in order to save the plants, or else they would have all died off. We are here to take plant waste and turn it into plant food.

There is no goddess of earth whom we can hurt. We are nothing to this universe, and nothing to this planet. Do not pollute - it is impossible. The planet releases more substances that are toxic to us than we do. But it also releases when we need, and we release what it needs.

Stop worshipping the planet - it is a very arrogant thing to do. One little shrug and we are all gone, and there isn't anything we can currently do about it.

-Edward