The God Question
THE GOD QUESTION THE SECRET BEHIND SECRET SOCIETIES
by Jon Rappoport
Down here on Earth, God has an interesting history. It goes this way: Someone decides there is a God. He announces this. But, for some reason, he doesn’t leave it there. Right away, his decision affects the group. A group is formed around this opinion.
In fact, it almost seems as if the notion of God, which after all began as an idea in the mind of a person, was designed as a group concept.
For example: “I just finished a painting. I want everyone to look at it and bow down to it and say it is the only painting ever done which has any importance. It’s not enough that it is my painting. Everyone has to see it in the same way. I have rules for that. I’ve spelled out, in great detail, the meaning of the painting, and these ideas will soon become laws. Binding laws.”
Then, much later, after the group has accepted the particular notion of God, the people in charge of that “painting” say: “The idea of God did not begin as the notion of a single individual. It was transmitted from God to all of us. That’s how it happened. We must accept that fact.”
Pretty clever.
You can investigate all sorts of societies, from the beginning of time on Earth, and of course you will discover that the God-notion became a binding force that was accepted by a majority of the population. It was rarely just a vision of one person that stayed that way. It was messianic and totalitarian from the get-go.
How odd.
Imagine this: a civilization based on Van Gogh’s famous painting, Starry Night. Everyone worships this painting, which is described in thousands of pages of sacred text. Van Gogh himself is forgotten. No one knows about him. To mention his name would be a crime, if anyone remembered him.
To take it even further, the rules of the civilization are said to emanate from the PAINTING. The painting invented the universe. The painting decides who is worthy and who is not. The painting rewards and punishes.
Then one day, Van Gogh wanders into town. He sees reproductions of Starry Night everywhere. He discovers what’s happened to it. He starts to talk about it, and then he sees the expressions on people’s faces. He stops. He slips out of town and never comes back. Too crazy.
Alone in the forest, he thinks about what he’s just experienced. The people have everything backwards. Everything. Everything.
JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com
The God Question THE SECRET BEHIND SECRET SOCIETIES
