What is the greatest lie in human history?

Before you answer this question, try to answer the following question: What is the biggest lie that you were told when you were a kid? The story of Santa Clause, tooth fairy, or unicorn? How about the story that a stork brought you to this world from heaven when you were told by your mother for the first time when you asked her where you had come from, and how.

According to a Swedish legend, the stork received its name from flying around the cross of the crucified Christ crying "Styrka! Styrka!" (Strengthen, strengthen). The stork story is just a legend as the legend of the resurrection of Christ. Legends, tales, fairy tales, fables, myths, Biblical verses, Quranic verses, Satanic verses, and sagas are all the same; they all have the same nature; they are lies. A lie is a story which is not verifiable. A lie could be little and short like tooth fairy or big and long like God and the Holy Books. A lie could be constructive or destructive. We actually use different terminology for constructive lies and call them white lies.

Now, think about other lies in your life. Think about your girlfriend's age when you first met her. How about the amount of money and wealth that your boyfriend had when you asked him for the first time? How about the little white lie that Clinton had no affair whatsoever with Lewinsky when he was questioned for the first time?

Did you know that one lie can give birth to another? Flying stork around the cross of the crucified Christ crying "Styrka! Styrka!" (lie number 1), given the later resurrection of Christ (lie number 2), and the belief in Christ as the giver of life (lie number 3), it was told that the stork had something to do with the creation of new life (lie number 4) and hence the delivery of babies (lie number 5).

As you already know, there are many lies in our lives. Some politicians, history writers, and all priests, rabbis, mullahs, imams, and fiction writers are good at creating imaginable lies in a believable way. It seems that creation is in action where you hear lies after lies. After all, lies could be a creationist tool to carry on with the story of creation, another lie.

How about God and the reality about His or Her existence? As you know, we, Homo sapiens, have been the most intelligent inhabitants of the planet Earth for the last 200,000 years or so. The Christian, Muslim, Jewish, or Zoroastrian God has been around just for the last 5,000 years. The real question is where He or She, God, was before 3000 BC.

To me, God is the Santa Claus of human adulthood; a Santa Claus for those adults who have not grown up intellectually enough to see that there is no such a thing as God. We have tried to unravel many mysteries and lies during the course of human history. The Clinton/Lewinsky lie is one of the most recent lies that we managed to unravel.

The story of God and His or Her affair with our universe is the biggest lie of all in human history. This destructive big lie, God, is going to be around for another few decades if not a century before we wake up and smell the coffee. This is the most optimistic view regarding the gradual death of God, The Big Lie. The pessimistic view will be that God will manage to kill all of us before we kill Him or Her. This is what I call the extinction of Homo sapiens due to Homo idiocy.

The second biggest lie in human history is that money is the root of all fortune. I let you elaborate on this lie. Good luck!

by Star