"divine rule" yep that is what every religion in the world stems from.
Long before the modern monotheism even to the earliest writings humans falsely attached their success to the divine, especially royalty, and even in prior polytheism, which all three Abraham religions stem from, humans lived under tribal kingships and those kings falsely thought their success and rights came from above. Not even Buddhism escapes this motif. The first Buddha is depicted in mythology of being born of Queen Maya, whom was told by the "divine world" that she would give birth to a boy who would grow up to bring wisdom to the world.
I get that you really want your hero to be true, but so does every religion's followers. Now instead of insisting on being all dreamy eyed, or assuming the questioning of your religion is somehow a magical super villain, how about considering that EVERY religion started in antiquity all lived in a scientifically ignorant past, yours, and Christians and Jews and Buddhists and Hindus, everyone.
The reality is that there is no Allah or Yahweh or Jesus or Vishnu or "Karma" ect ect. The real source as to why we have compassion, and why we act out in cruelty is because those behaviors are in us, not religion. So if we want to foster more cooperation and less violence worldwide, I think we need to ditch old claims that do not reflect our modern understanding of biological evolution.
Long before the modern monotheism even to the earliest writings humans falsely attached their success to the divine, especially royalty, and even in prior polytheism, which all three Abraham religions stem from, humans lived under tribal kingships and those kings falsely thought their success and rights came from above. Not even Buddhism escapes this motif. The first Buddha is depicted in mythology of being born of Queen Maya, whom was told by the "divine world" that she would give birth to a boy who would grow up to bring wisdom to the world.
I get that you really want your hero to be true, but so does every religion's followers. Now instead of insisting on being all dreamy eyed, or assuming the questioning of your religion is somehow a magical super villain, how about considering that EVERY religion started in antiquity all lived in a scientifically ignorant past, yours, and Christians and Jews and Buddhists and Hindus, everyone.
The reality is that there is no Allah or Yahweh or Jesus or Vishnu or "Karma" ect ect. The real source as to why we have compassion, and why we act out in cruelty is because those behaviors are in us, not religion. So if we want to foster more cooperation and less violence worldwide, I think we need to ditch old claims that do not reflect our modern understanding of biological evolution.
