A Devouring God
January 3, 2019
The god Molech of ancient times was easily appeased in comparison to the god of today.
A HUNGRY GOD rules our world. Rapacious, bottomless, never-ending, his appetite sends hot, roaring winds across the planet. Every day, every hour, he demands sacrifices to his glory.
His cravings are widely known and obeyed.
He wants male and female to come to him in long avenues. He consumes these willing victims and belches out an indigestible residue to spread across the androgynous world.
He wants the young seized from the womb and placed in his arms. He delights even more in infants who have never been conceived. He wants that nothingness laid at his feet. He seeks the absent babe with a greedy desire.
He wants whole nations, or at least their identities, placed into a roiling cauldron in his temple, the distinctiveness of each melded and melted down so that he can gorge on a rich stew. He wants particular races ground into dust and the dust offered to him in silver bowls, and then the love of extended kinship will be replaced with the love of him.
He wants joy beneath bright shining skyscrapers pointing upward. He insists on smiles, hugs, music with pumping rhythms and groaning. He wants quiet to end. He wants packed sports arenas cheering his praises. He wants you. He wants you to come and reverently offer him your individuality, to participate in sacred, cathartic orgies and to exchange your useless prayers for political slogans. He promises you happiness in this life always.
But more than anything else, he wants the altar.
He wants the altar placed on his altar.
Let the Sacrificial Lamb with His arresting wounds be obliterated with a come-one, come-all potluck supper at his feet, with dance and hugs and smiles and wisecracks and noise as the yummy bread and wine are offered to him and shared by his subjects. He wants no presence but his presence. He is a jealous god.
Who is this god? What is his name? He is Humanity.
He who refuses him worship will be expelled from his joyous kingdom to wander in the despised silence without happiness or hugs.
