On my walk today I came across a man. An ordinary man, one you would,'t give a second look. Or so it seemed. He joined me uninvited, as if by coincidence, on a stretch of path along a stream, a place I always look forward to visiting as one can find abundance of life there, including herons and various insects, dragonflies in particular. This time it was a different kind of life that interfered with my intention to indulge in a natural world.
I tried to shake the man off by pausing here and there to admire a flower or a butterfly fluttering among the weeds and finally vanishing across the stream, but to no avail. The man paused when I paused and proceeded when I proceeded, pretending to admire the same things that I did.
»How do you think all these things came into existence?« he suddenly asked.
Oh, so that's where we're heading. I knew I couldn't get rid of him until we reached the fork in the path. So I sped up and said: »Erm...brought to Earth by aliens?«
He seemed unperturbed by my reply and gave me a lecture about God and His almightiness and how He created everything including aliens and how following Him is the only right way and how on Judgement Day only true believers will be given eternal life whereas others will vanish into oblivion (hmmm... whatever happened to Hell?) and a full load of such nonsense.
As I finally reached the point where I could leave the man behind, I left wondering why on earth anybody would want to live forever.
But something else he said amused me to pieces. It was about God and Lucifer; God being allegedly perfect and unmistakable and Lucifer his favourite and the cleverest of angels. But Lucifer 'became pretentious' and thought he could give advice to God which made Him angry and He expelled Lucifer, thus making him what is known as Satan.
Hmmm... a rebel against self-proclaimed Perfection? I think I rather fancy that Lucifer guy.
