You'd have to be mad to think it.

[17th Angel]

[Tao_Equus]

Down the years I have read a number of allegorical stories, (most in the science fiction genre), that dedicate themselves to just this question. My lamentable memory prevents me from naming any titles or authors, most if not all were read in anthologies, but it was always a particular type of story I enjoyed.

One of them stands out in my mind because in it God is being hunted by our decendents here on Earth. The story suggests that we have evolved into control freaks that rule the universe and insist everything is in its correct place, like some crazy houseproud woman measuring the distance between her mantelpiece ornaments. Anyhow Earth is in this story uninhabited and preserved as a museum object, and it is where God is trying to hide because man wants to put him in his own exhibition space elsewhere. The moral of the story being that if the powers that be, politicaly, did find God they would want complete control over access to Him.

I think this story is as pertinent today as it always has been and probably always will be. The power hungry are faithless, their only God is themselves, and they have no moral dilema about hijacking the concept of God to their own ends.

TE