Catholic Fundamentalism reduces all there is to this: We are stars in The Big Movie!
First, The Producer, Writer, and Director built The Set. Their stagehands made the Props. Electrons were compiled into atoms and elements. Elements were combined into Compounds.
Humans make animated movies by programming pixels, The Producer, Writer, and Director created The Cosmos out of 3-D pixels. Soon, everything from gold to galaxies was in place. Some of props were animated! Every part of The Big Movie Set worked together.
Then, the “Stars of The Show” were programmed and downloaded. They lived in The Beta Site. It was called “The Garden of Eden” in the Iron Age.
The “First Stars” decided to ignore The Producer, The Writer, and The Director! They ate the forbidden apple!
The free-will programs were thrown out of the Beta Site!
The children of these “replicating free-will programs” are us! We still write our own lines. We play whatever roles we want!
The Director provided directions. Most Actors wouldn’t listen! “I just do what I want!” Some of the stagehands, called “Angels” in The Iron Age, did, too. After the Actors got booted, rebellious stagehands were thrown out of the Front Office and onto the set.
Things went from bad to worse! Rebellious stagehands corrupted the complicated human DNA part of The Program. The Front Office Triumvirate decided: “We have eight human programs who follow instructions. We’ll get rid of the bad actors and start over with them!”
So, The Flood! The set was rearranged. “Soon, they’ll have microscopes and telescopes. We can’t let them see ANYTHING that lets them prove We are real. We only want the souls of Obedient Actors in Heaven!”
The Flood squeezed up mountain ranges and laid down sedimentary layers to make things look as old as Actors wanted to believe them to be. Soon, The Front Office sent messages to obedient actors. “The Writer is Coming to Earth!”
Odd prophecies about His Coming foretold the small town, Tribe, and House in which The Writer would appear. Then, they killed Him, in the manner predicted.
Jesus gave the oddest command since “Don’t eat the apple!”. He said, 14 times, “If you do not eat My Body and drink My Blood you do not have life in you.”
“Huh? That’s crazy! Let’s kill everyone who believes That!” Despite their efforts, The Church The Writer began survived.
To this day, hundreds of millions of Actors realize: “If I obey, the immortal soul around which my spirit, mind, and body have been coalesced will leave here and go to The Front Office!”
We are stars in The Big Movie! We should all follow His Directions. Those who obey sufficiently end up in The Only Church He Founded.
