garbotalk: Your last paragraph confuses me.

The judgement that fell on your heads you believe to be the Kayeen attack on your world.

You salvation whose forgiveness? Yeja?

The sacrifice of their Lord, again, Yeja on the cross? Or are you referring to a Kayeen Lord?

reptiliandude: The martyrdom of Yeja brought about an eventual collapse of the former priestly classes and significant social change.

As ‘pagans’ primarily concerned with maintaining the stability of the current system we supported a persecution of his followers.

They would not go down quietly and did not allow themselves to be silenced even staring at certain death.

As such we were forced to reexamine our social and religious orders and discovered that similar individuals had existed several times in our history, not simply as myth, but as actual living people telling us essentially the same thing.

After these individuals had left, the people led by their respective priesthoods and political leaders then returned to their former practices and these unique messengers were relegated to myth and legend.

When our ancestors confronted our priests and political leaders, they balked and even went so far as to try and burn scrolls which contained evidence of this history.

It was then that our society imploded.

We eventually realized that we had been ruled by liars who had taken these messengers and driven them out or slain them simply because these men of faith supported a more egalitarian system of rule.

There was much bloodshed during those days until the social order was reestablished in one of the provinces by a young prince who himself was baptized and led a successful campaign against his own father’s corrupt rule and thus by his actions and good council the persecutions were eventually stopped.

This prince rejected any attempts to codify the sermons of those who followed Yeja as he feared it would lead to an orthodoxy which would only suppress the purity of Yeja’s teachings and replace them with denominations of zealots who would succumb to those same systems that had risen up and relegated into obscurity those many ‘Yejas’ before.

Eventually, the followers of Yeja became an accepted part of our culture, but they were still considered somewhat odd, as are considered your mormons to other more orthodox Christian sects.

Where we differ from you, is that we never organized and set into stone a religious orthodoxy to save a political empire as your species did in Rome.

We are not believers in a “trinity” as these ‘Yejas’ appear on many worlds throughout the universe, preaching the same things and obtaining similar results.

This rejection of the ‘trinity’ is because there is MORE than one ‘Son’ which your species has been convinced is decidedly singular, and exclusively Hebrew in origin and dress.

It would be patently ridiculous and goes against all reason to suppose that all species and sentient life in the universe must somehow set their clocks to human time and magically recognize a Hebrew primate or be condemned to an eternal torture in some sulfurous pit filled with the denizens of over two trillion galaxies…

And yet, this is what we find is the prevailing belief system amongst the more zealous Christian fundamentalists here on Earth.

It is beyond bigoted and ridiculous and descends into the realm of an intolerable and violent insanity which stubbornly rejects both science and reason for a religious orthodoxy that goes against the very teachings which the human Christ and our own Yeja stood for.

Such asinine, breathtakingly literalist interpretations of scripture force thinking and learned people into the camps of nihilism and atheism by default.

This is the same trap which my own species fell into prior to the attack of the Kayeen.

We lived in a divided pagan/atheist world such as this with a form of what could be called ‘Christianity’ standing alone and rejected in the background.

In my world the followers of Yeja/Yeha had not yet established any sort of major Church or religious orthodoxy.

They were a fringe faith with silly, confusing little prayer books and odd beliefs about the nature of the cosmos until they courageously charged forward and delivered the contagion that saved our species at the brink of our own extinction but at the tremendous loss of their own lives which they said were simply a form of faithful service to the One.

This shocked us into the realization that there was more to this people…

They had always said there were other Yejas throughout the universe working to bring about social and religious change so that evolution could take a natural course but so that species would not destroy themselves before God had a chance to watch nature’s eternal dance.

We had laughed at this as an eccentric silliness.

As we reverse engineered the technologies of the Kayeen and translated their languages and pieced together their history we discovered that they too had a ‘Yeja’ of sorts who they had summararily rejected and replaced with a more atheistic and materialistic social order.

Yeja had warned us never to politicize his teachings as this would corrupt his message and lead us to forget him as we had done so many times before.

He admonished us to never use his teachings as a way to establish organizations whose purpose leaned more to make its ministers wealthy so they might feast among kings and political scoundrels rather than to lift up the widow and the fatherless, the poor and the broken…

Ignoring his teachings would lead to senseless wars, persecutions and the rejection of truth because of greedy ‘men’ using religion to acquire wealth and power at the expense of the very souls his teachings were designed to guide into an understanding of the purpose for our existence.

By following such greedy, reprehensible charlatans we would cause the world to reject such teachings and the people would instead choose the deceitful paths of those foolish self-destructive ones who claim that life has no purpose and that our ‘salvation’ rested in forging upon ourselves the chains of debt and vice.

As we encountered other worlds, we saw even more evidence of this person and persons appearing and dissapearing in other species.

The solar mythos had taken a life of its own on so many worlds…

It was as if it the same voice extended through the very fabric of matter itself.

The followers of Yeja are convinced that this is an incarnation of one whose spiritual identity flows from the same person.

That ‘person’ it flows from is God.

And that those who are grafted into his purpose become a part of the same tree sharing in the same sap and imparting a unique flavor to their own branch of the fruit that evolves from these engines of creation.

For both life and the solar mythos is summoned from these stars which made us.

They are the engines of creation, summoned into being by God.

“God remains mostly silent, save for an echo which projects the universe above itself.

We are all of us dwelling in his eternal mind, a mind inquiring what could be accomplished with the least of interference.

But when life appears, He plays along and subtly helps in ways that escape most of us.”

These are the words of Yeja at his trial before the religious authorities of my world.

That was the trial that led to his crucifixion.

“It is always religious zealots and hypocrites… Atheists and materialists… Who lead people astray from the truth.”

These are the words that he spoke as he was beaten in the face by the guards who cursed him by their own gods.

This ‘person’ has appeared many time and on many worlds.

His existence does not demand a blind adherence to a faith that rejects science and reason.

That is a lie perpetrated by the Kayeen, and by those who seek to obscure and to destroy the path set forth by the solar mythos which God himself placed in the sky so that there would be at least one light that such evil and wicked men could not suppress.

It is the solar mythos which inexorably leads all people toward a path trodden by the One.