When the Gods of Heaven Burned to Ashes-I
" This essay is not an attack on faith, but an exploration of its evolution. It moves from moral protest to metaphysical dissolution. Read slowly" If evil exists, and the devil too, and if God exists, then evil cannot stand outside His will, because nothing can. If that is so, then on the grounds of intent and rationality, and without any trace of hypocrisy, I find myself placing human beings far superior to God in moral courage. For a human being, though flawed and fragile, still wrestles with the devil within and resists the darkness in the outer world. This is not rebellion. It is moral inquiry, the refusal to silence a question merely because tradition has grown comfortable with its absence, and a rejection of the blind conditioning that turns learners into schooled parrots. At the level of lived experience, this idea is relatable. Yet it is difficult to accept, for centuries of societal institutionalisation, almost perennially chronic, have conditioned us to ...