I Might Be Going Crazy, But I’m Also Jesus.
“God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.”
In His image man was created, is it then strange that with time man thinks he is god? He thinks he has divine permission to rule over all other living creatures of this earth, as if they are all here only to serve his needs.
He doesn’t even acknowledge all humankind as human. He creates a society and economical system that is built on exploiting all life that he considers beneath him. He causes suffering to humans, animals and the planet itself. I ask, where is that wreath of God to rein in the arrogance of man?
Nietzsche proclaimed God is dead. And so he is. All the new gods are dead. The only one left is the only true goddess, Mother Earth, and she is roaring. She is reminding us we are not the masters of this planet, she is. She is reminding us that if we do not accept and learn to live in balance and harmony with the planet and its other inhabitants, she no longer has use for us.
What can we do when she strikes thunder and scourges the earth with fire, drowns it under water, feeds “our” food to the locust, and sends a virus to thin the lines?
We must sacrifice! We must make peace with her.
Or something like that is how I imagine people of the past have made sense of their place in the world and how belief systems have been born and developed into religions.
It always starts with trying to make sense. After that it can lead to all sorts of sinister practices. But there is always sacrifice, and that holds true now as well.
Our sacrifice is similar, at least on a symbolic level, to those sacrificing animals or even humans to ease the gods they believed in. Things we’ve long taken for granted need to be re-examined, and some of them might end up on a sacrificial altar before a new world order can be achieved.
I don’t subscribe to any religion per se, but I have beliefs. One of them is, that we can’t go back to the “old normal”. What the “new normal” will be is up to us. God is dead, the world as we know it is dead. It doesn’t work. It doesn’t work environmentally, politically, economically nor socially.
I don’t have any answers, but I have a wish. I wish to have the privilege for my generation to make our own mistakes instead of repeating those of our parents.
And don’t worry, I might be going crazy, but I don’t think I’m Jesus. But I do think times are ripe for someone to proclaim him/herself the new prophet, it is coming, just you wait and see. Which is why we need to talk about what kind of world we want, what values are we building it on? I hope respect for nature and all living things, as well as respect for science will be at the core of it.
