Humanity on show

One day, a long time ago, God was daydreaming. “My God, I'm bored!”, he said to himself. Why was that? When everything is perfect, when everything runs smoothly and without surprises, nothing interesting or captivating happens. Only boredom remains.

“I've got an idea how to get out of this”, he says to himself. “I'm going to create a humanity, but I don't want it to be perfect - how horrible! -. I want an ambivalent humanity, capable of both the best and the worst. I'm going to make it full of contrasts, with love, generosity and joy, but also hatred, cruelty and suffering. I'm going to put it in a stimulating context, with fertile land and natural resources, but also disasters like earthquakes, tsunamis and disease. In short, imperfection is necessary for the expression of my omnipotence.”

And so it was done. Since then, humanity has been evolving on what is, as far as we know, the greatest stage of entertainment, under the watchful eye of the divine spectator.

In the highly improbable event that such a God does exist, let's at least hope that he's having a good time and that he's in heaven! Speaking of the tragic side of humanity, are we underestimating its playful side? Why do religions manage to make such a senseless situation credible? Could it be a confusion between the world as it is and the world as we would like it to be? Why do so many people fervently accept the absurdities promoted by religions?

At the end of the show - for us, at our death - the believer, full of hope, will hold out his hat to receive the reward for his work as an actor.

The wise man remembers that the actors were hired by force and carried out their activities under duress.

If we are to believe in the existence of God, we must not be afraid of contradictions. Let's keep our critical minds alert and not take our dreams for realities.