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Small Gods
by Terry Pratchett
I tend to gravitate more towards stories that have an anchor in the real world and the present time. Having said that, I get why there are so many diehard Pratchett fans, and why I happen to be friends with a lot of them.
Got me thinking about what makes a god worthy of worship and what makes humans so prone to worshiping gods. A lot of the philosophical religious commentary can easily be applied to my views on organized religion.
I came out thinking that Brutha is much more worthy of worship than the Great God Om.
Favorite Quotes
That on a whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right.
You couldn't think about how you thought. It was like opening a box with the crowbar that was inside.
Yes, but humans are more important than animals, said Brutha. This is a point of view often expressed by humans, said Om.
If people don't respect then they won't fear, and if they don't fear, how can you get them to believe?
Brutha had never been any good at lying. The truth itself had always seemed so incomprehensible that complicating things even further had always been beyond him.
Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly turned into fruit, and what impressed them? Weeping statues. And wine made out of water! A mere quantum-mechanistic tunnel effect, that'd happen anyway if you were prepared to wait zillions of years. As if the turning of sunlight into wine, by means of vines and grapes and time and enzymes, wasn't a thousand times more impressive and happened all the time...
I think...you should do things because they're right. Not because gods say so.
Got me thinking about what makes a god worthy of worship and what makes humans so prone to worshiping gods. A lot of the philosophical religious commentary can easily be applied to my views on organized religion.
I came out thinking that Brutha is much more worthy of worship than the Great God Om.
Favorite Quotes
That on a whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right.
You couldn't think about how you thought. It was like opening a box with the crowbar that was inside.
Yes, but humans are more important than animals, said Brutha. This is a point of view often expressed by humans, said Om.
If people don't respect then they won't fear, and if they don't fear, how can you get them to believe?
Brutha had never been any good at lying. The truth itself had always seemed so incomprehensible that complicating things even further had always been beyond him.
Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly turned into fruit, and what impressed them? Weeping statues. And wine made out of water! A mere quantum-mechanistic tunnel effect, that'd happen anyway if you were prepared to wait zillions of years. As if the turning of sunlight into wine, by means of vines and grapes and time and enzymes, wasn't a thousand times more impressive and happened all the time...
I think...you should do things because they're right. Not because gods say so.