Dialogue

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Dialogue: Devil and Saint Thomas the Apostle 

"I mean, it's completely understandable. We are creatures who are aware of our mortality, as we see everything else die, too. It's not a big leap to assume we also return to dust. So, humanity being vulnerable and microscopic, there quickly developed a need to help folks cope and hope. There came a natural call for an elaborate rationale that could persuade folks away from the damning depression of death, and from these physical, earthly bonds. There came a.quick longing to create the idea of God- a Creator who is bigger and much prior to death. A kind Master to take everyone's mind off of obvious disasters, abject suffering, and fearful impermanence. There came a need for religion and blind faith that an eternity of dust isn't the final fate for our humankind, if we only believe. No one blames anyone for this delusional creation, this good news idea there's something else." 

"If I could get a word in here, please, there could be areas of agreement, but don't hold your breath for that. You're stating that faith is a construct, a made-up mechanism to ally stress. You're claiming the unknown has driven mankind to author the idea of God, to you an unsurprising myth. You say with unsupported certainty that all faith is a ploy to outsmart fear, and fear always comes from unknowns. Would it surprise you to learn that folks of faith are also at times full of doubt? Bad clouds form anywhere. Fear isn't a construct. Do you not even fear the Sun? Its unforgiving storms of fire and constant destruction? Do you not also fear the finality of death, the cruelly irreversible verdict? What fake courage do non-believers employ, what tricks of phrase and wit used? You may deny the existence of God, but the very next stunning sunrise will overdraw your skepticism with majestic splendor, and with winds born of greater powers than mortals can ever divine."

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