which truth?
which morality?
which god?
the belief that there is some grand universal truth is the illusion that keeps greasing the wheels of religion. there are facts, there are lies, there is the unknown and there is that huge grey area where no one can agree. we have yet to find any universal truth or to fathom what it might entail. we have made up the fantasy of the great truth without even understanding what it might govern. do we really need a reason to live or is this existence enough to justify itself?
we have proven time and again that morality is not a static set of rules. even the most basic and obvious evils, murder and theft for example, are allowable should the culture decide they are necessary. nations are permitted to kill by the thousands for the sake of their ideologies and mothers are even allowed to kill their unborn children if the pregnancy is considered too much of a burden. theft by the state is not only allowed, but expected. every moral commandment is as fluid as its society deems necessary.
our gods are as varied as the mind of man can make them. they are vengeful, benevolent, furious, maniacal and even downright malignant. they are mothers, fathers, warriors, tricksters and always as flawed as their creators. what is the point of god? is it just something that set the machine in motion and now sits back to watch the show, waiting to pass judgment on the failing of its creations? aside from filling our need for some beginning, it seems more the absent slumlord than anything else.