Denying the reality of the gods (including God) by attributing to them only mythological (fictional) status is easy. Much harder is to try to accept their reality while stripping them of their supernatural (deity) status. That’s what I try to do here. If that however can’t be done, well the fairy tales involving the ancient Egyptian, Roman, Greek, etc. gods or the Biblical God still make for interesting bedtime stories.
*For the majority of mankind, for the majority of time, polytheism has been the be-all-and-and-all of explaining life, the universe and everything. Lots of phenomena; lots of things to explain; lots of divisions of labour resulting in lots of gods required to explain all.
*Then some bright spark comes along and suggests that all these different roles can be in fact rolled into one. So because one God is easier to come to terms with than dozens of gods, well, make it so, or so be it.
*But, does than shift ultimately mean that one God is better than many gods? Are there in fact other gods and God, or other gods but not God?
*Well, according to all things Biblical, God’s Commandments verify the existence of other gods
*My quick summation goes as follows:
*“I am the Lord your God” [Translated, ‘I’m top dog’.]
*“Do not have any other gods before me” [Translated: ‘that’s because I am top dog’.]
*“You shall not make for yourself an idol [presumably of other gods], whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. [The latter might be the Greek Poseidon, or Roman Neptune, for example.]
*“You shall not bow down to them or worship them [presumably those other gods]; for I the Lord your God [He repeats Himself here] am a jealous God [top dogs tend to be wary and even envious of lesser dogs least they gang up on Him] … punishing … those who reject me”.
*An analogy strikes me as if there were a group of school kids (gods) all playing relatively nicely among themselves, when the school bully (God) enters, chases them away and spoils everything for everybody!
*Or, it’s as if the General (God) is rather miffed – not all that pleased – if the adoring public idolise the Private, the Sergeant, or the Lieutenant – rank has it’s privileges, or at least some rather serious expectations.
*Okay, the Bible, being God’s word and all, verifies God has rivals!
*In fact, doing an online search of the King James Version of the Bible, I find 50 references to “the gods”, 63 verses that contain “other gods”, and lastly another 29 hits on the phrase “their gods”, in all cases the use of the plural.
*Even in Genesis 1:26, we have the sentence “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness”. Again, note the plural of “us” and “our”.
*By now you know my premise that God and the gods are really extraterrestrials; God being just one of the old polytheistic mob.
*Now ‘God’ and the other ‘gods’ didn’t always see eye-to-eye; in fact various ‘gods’ often were a feuding and a fighting with their comrades (i.e. – the Olympians overthrew the Titans for example in Greek mythology). Turf wars probably! Thus mythology records numerous ‘wars-in-heaven’.
*For some reason(s), suspect the ‘gods’ left around the time of the phase transition from polytheism to monotheism. As an explanation, it logically follows, seeing as how there’s no love lost between ‘God’ and the ‘gods’, that at some point ‘God’ and followers overthrew all the other ‘gods’ and sent them packing. As per above the “Thou shall have no other gods before me for I am a jealous God” tirade! Monotheism now rules.
*The monotheistic clan followed the rest of the ‘gods’ shortly thereafter and thus no God or gods have been heard of again since roughly 2000 years ago. Why did ‘God’ too split the terrestrial scene? Probably ‘God’ left the building because he wasn’t wanted by us ungrateful humans. Despite ‘God’s’ temper tantrums and threats and punishments and atrocities and catastrophes, all an attempt to keep us in line, humans not only gave ‘God’ the Big Finger, refused to obey and worship as directed, but executed His son (J.C.) to add a final insult to injury. ‘God’, quite pissed off, huffed-and-puffed, gave us the Big Finger in return, but unloved and unwanted, turned tail, totally fed up and left. That’s why over the past 2000 years plus, there have been no more burning bushes, no new commandments (or amendments to any of the old), no reports of anyone walking on water, not to mention that the Sun hasn’t stood still for over 2000 years, and it’s been a very long time indeed since anyone has used the belly of a whale (or large fish) as a method of seagoing transportation, etc.
*However, there remains a token presence left behind to monitor humanity, least our thunderbolts begin to equal theirs, or perhaps because parents are always interested in the development of their children – we call the evidence of that presence our modern day UFOs. The polytheistic ‘gods’, now also known by the synonym ‘ancient astronauts’, have now morphed into the aliens or grays or ufonauts.
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