The evolution of God, the involution of humanity

Once upon a time, there was a village where many people lived. Mothers, fathers, grandparents, and many children, all together under a vast sky full of stars. This village was surrounded by towering mountains and lush green meadows.

The people of the village were happy, but sometimes they felt lonely. When they looked at the starry sky or watched the sun set behind the mountains, they wondered, "Who made all of this? Why are we here?"

One night, when the moon was large and bright, everyone gathered under the old, grand tree. They decided to think together about something that could make them feel less alone and answer their big questions.

The oldest villager, with hair white as snow and a voice sweet as honey, said, "Perhaps we can imagine a special friend—so special that it could have created the sun, the moon, the stars, and everything we see around us."

So, on that starry night, they all imagined a special friend, and they called this friend God. They imagined someone who loves everyone, who is always there even if it can’t be seen, who listens when they are sad or in need of help.

The village children were happy to have such a powerful and kind new friend. They began speaking to this friend in their thoughts, telling him about their days and asking for help when they were afraid during the dark nights.

The adults in the village, knowing that they had invented this special friend, smiled as they watched the happiness of their children. But deep in their hearts, they felt that this imaginary friend had made their world a little less cruel and a little more magical.

And so, the village continued to live under the watchful gaze of the stars, with an invisible friend, wrapped in a magical story that would be told again and again, for many generations.

As time passed in the village, the children grew into adults, and the parents grew old, becoming grandparents with hair like snow. Even though they had grown up, the adults never forgot about their special friend. They had believed in this friend for so long, they began to forget that it was something they had invented.

This imaginary friend had made life in the village sweeter, bringing such joy that no one could remember what life was like without it. The children who had grown up passed on the same stories to their little ones, and so, generation after generation, the entire village continued to believe and share the presence of this invisible friend.

From time to time, all the villagers would gather to celebrate their special friend. They held grand feasts, sang songs, and danced together, forming a great circle, hand in hand, under the stars, which seemed to smile down at their happy secret.

The people from neighboring villages, seeing how joyful they were, began to wonder what their secret to such happiness was. During one of these celebrations, one of the elders from the happy village shared the story of their special friend, God, explaining how they had imagined Him to feel less alone and how that had changed their lives.

Intrigued and inspired, the neighboring villagers decided to try as well. They began imagining and speaking to this invisible friend, hoping to find the same sense of peace. Little by little, as they discovered the magic of believing in something greater than themselves, they too began to feel better, more connected, and less alone.

The story of how an entire village found happiness through faith in an imaginary friend spread, and the magic of that belief seemed contagious. What had started as an invention to combat loneliness and the mystery of existence became a bond that united not just one village, but many, in a shared network of joy and community.

As the years passed, the story of this imaginary friend, God, grew and spread far beyond the original village. Every village that embraced this idea began imagining their own special friend in slightly different ways, influenced by their customs, cultures, and landscapes. In some villages, God was gentle like a spring breeze; in others, powerful like an autumn storm. Each found comfort and happiness in their own version of this imaginary friend, just as the first village had.

However, as the story continued to spread, human nature revealed its darker side. The people from a distant village heard that in other villages, people believed in a version of God very different from their own. They felt betrayed and offended, convinced that their image of God was the true and original one.

This difference in opinion led to arguments and eventually to outright conflict. Each village claimed that their version of God was the correct one and that all others were wrong. Sweet words and shared festivals gave way to disputes and, over time, even battles. The people who once gathered under the stars to share stories and songs now faced each other with anger and fear.

This unfamiliar hostility transformed peaceful villages into battlegrounds, with villagers fighting to prove the superiority of their vision. The love and unity that the idea of God had once brought were forgotten, replaced by the desire to be right at any cost.

The conflict spread, and the fight for the "true face of God" divided the people.

As the years passed, new generations grew, and with them came new doubts about the existence of God.

During this period of change, men and women of great intellect made extraordinary discoveries. Scientists and philosophers began to find answers to the questions that had once seemed unanswerable. The stars, diseases, natural phenomena, and even complex human interactions began to be understood in ways that no longer required the presence of an omnipotent being.

As the world became more explainable and less mysterious, the need for the imaginary friend began to fade. This shift frightened many who remained faithful to the ideal, fearing that the absence of this figure would lead to a loss of meaning and direction in people’s lives. So, some of the most devout began to oppose the innovators, trying to silence or discredit those who offered alternative explanations for the order of the world.

The creation of God, which had been a magnificent solution to the fears and loneliness of the village’s ancient inhabitants, became something so real that it began to stifle human progress, turning the search for truth into a battle to maintain control over what people could or could not believe. The evolution of God led to the involution of humanity.