Gods and Cooperation

Religion seems to be a leading cause for the end of the world. Of course this isn’t because of their beliefs as it is the gods they believe in. The basic problem is that gods hate other gods. Worse, they really hate the followers of their competitors. All of this leads to a god destroying the world or an apocalyptic battle between rival religions

Gods are jealous. You hear it in all the hoopla about worshiping false or “other” gods. Why can’t they just be friends?

It’s always our god against your god. Even a religion with dozens of gods has infighting in the ranks. They are always messing with the other god’s pet humans too.

If you are a god, wouldn’t you belong to a club? You’d think they would talk about each other over drinks and a good cigar. Imagine the gods laughing about the silly things their followers would do.
But it does not seem that gods really like each other. In fact, even in cultures with many gods there are tales of disagreements. Look at the Greek and Roman gods with all their problems. It is the sort of messed up stuff you would see on Donahue.

The really big issues happen with gods with different followers. Look at the Jewish God, for instance. He hated everybody. You name it, he hated it. But what about the Christians and Muslims? There are so many different versions of each of these religions! Basically the same followers of the same gods and teachings, but they find reasons to hate each other.

Is there a turf issue? Do the gods need to share Heaven or even Hell? Is there competition in the real estate of the gods? You would think they had plenty of space in the universe.

But say it isn’t about estate value. Maybe it’s about souls? Could it be that when you die, you add to the credit rating of the god you believe in? Sometimes the truth is stranger than you could ever imagine.
There are other things that seem to get gods angry. Each culture’s god seems to take credit for the same sort of stuff. Everybody is creating the world and mankind. They all want dibs on creation. It is like they are stealing each other’s toys in a last ditch effort to have the last word.

Missing Gods
Some gods have disappeared. They are mentioned in history, but nobody seriously worships them anymore. No miracles are attributed and none is ghostwriting new bibles or giving the faithful regular supernatural visits.

Have these gods retired?
Is there a retirement plan for gods? Have the Aztec gods gone missing when the Spaniards showed up and they decided to take an early retirement? Are they living the life of leisure at a galactic fishing hole, drinking mojitos? Can you imagine them getting up the energy to come out of retirement and destroy the Earth in 2012?

We heard it once said that a god ceases to exist if it doesn’t have enough followers. That may make sense. One reason to kill off the competition or convert them.

Imagine the Christian god cooking up the whole idea of Columbus finding the New World just to kill or convert the people of the Americas. No Indians, no Indian gods. Game over.

God Therapy
We need a solution to all this god on god hate. We need to do something fast before a deity decides its time to start over.

Lesser God Employment
Maybe the problem is that gods don’t feel wanted. We think that a sort of employment program for out of work gods would help them feel less hatred for the better off gods.

It seems sort of obvious. Look at the Judeo-Christian God. He probably killed millions in the Old Testament. But why? Think about it, the primary gods at the time were Roman gods and others. Big G God was just a young god with only a small band of followers. He was just working his way up the social ladder to become popular and have the most followers.

Why not get these gods into a work program that will get a few humans to worship them a bit? A little love will go a long way.

What if the Aztecs loaned out a spare god or two to the Jews? Aztecs have gods that specialize in crops, prosperity, and war. The Jews could have used the expert help from time to time. Better yet, Aztec gods are unemployed and could use the work.

Would the popular gods get mad? Sure, but pray to them to suck it up and get over it.You would be helping them out. Everyone knows that popular gods can’t answer every prayer, they should be happy for the help.

The result would be happier gods and humans would get some godly help.