Because their zeal to honor the great One was done in the great One’s name, no one felt guilty about persecuting their own tribes-people like this. They were simply putting the great One first, making their sacred obligation take precedence over all human relationships. Every group claimed that they alone had the true sacrament of the great One’s presence whilst the others were either deluded or disobedient to the heavenly vision. The once happy people were racked with bitter divisions and hatreds over this issue of identifying and distinguishing what was supposed to be sacred and what was supposed to be common. That which was supposed to unite them only succeeded in dividing them.

Scientists, reacting to religion for whatever reason, resorted first to meaningless randomness (chance, nothingness) to explain things. Recognizing then the absurdity of such explanation, they then turned to creating new gods with similar powers to past deity, to explain and make sense of reality and life. But the arrogance here was in claiming their new gods were the product of rationality, empiricism, myth-free reason, and good science. They claimed the rational high ground and derided the simple believer in the metaphysical and divinity. Yet in essence what is the fundamental difference between their new gods and God?.