DARTAK FAESSIG FAESTIR
By birth, we are enslaved. If one wishes to obtain enlightenment and freedom, they must shed the chains that bound them, both visible and not. ~
Depravity of Divinity.Obedience is the tool of the divine, gods pass down their divine decrees to their priests, their priests to the common person, and the weakness of the common person's mind festers, spreading the deity's will amongst other weak-willed persons. This is their schemed pyramid of tyranny, held up by the obedient slave; be it king, or peasant, none are free from the grasp and shackles that the god's have managed to entangle around mortal souls. It is by the god's edicts, creeds, and codes that one's freedom is expressly limited. The gods bestow upon mortals the chains of right and wrong; anathema and benediction.
The goal of gods is simple; growth of their innate power, through the exploitation mortals. The gods abuse the Great Wheel of cosmology to invoke their will upon mortals, yet they remain ever disconnected from the ones they enslave to their decrees. These gods exist out of the bounds of our realm, only able to invoke meek amounts of their true power. They may grant their priests divine powers, they may call upon avatars to represent them, and they may invoke thoughts upon one's minds, but know this; their shackles may be broken away at your will.
From one's limited mind, it may seem the gods weave our world so endlessly, but a opened mind may see the cracks, the seams between their carefully built pyramid; and when one notices such, they may use these faults within their pyramid to escape it. For freedom, and enlightenment, one must not find a preferred deity, but remove themselves utterly from the schemes of the divine, else one has merely moved on from their last shackles, to new ones. It is through the ultimate rejection of these edicts, creeds, and codes that one may help free themselves from their shackles.
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On priests & clergy.Clergy, preists, clerics, paladins, and so forth will always invoke their god's will upon others; malicious enslaved trying to spread their slavery upon others. They shall call out their deeds and actions to not be their own, but their god's, they carry no pride, no mental freedom, and no enlightenment they may call their own. Faith expects obedience, and the most faithful are the most obedient, willing to bend their knees for the sake of morsels of power, or perhaps what they believe to be right, or just. Fanatics of cloth and piety doom themselves to this fate; to never be free, or enlightened.
The layman who pays lip service is weak, inherently so. They invoke the god's name because it is taught to them; taught that such is right, and to not is wrong, perceived rights and wrongs are merely the slave's mind conforming to festered thought, brought by the clergy who bellow these falsities. The other reason is for protection, they call upon the power of the god, for they are weak, instead of purging their own weakness, they seek their shepherd scare away the predator, even when blood stained and upon their last thread to the mortal coil, they shall call upon their god, and none shall answer, and if there was one, it'd be mere chance, and the distinguishing moment, is not the norm of all, it shall never be.
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