Humiliation
Once upon a time, a mighty God of righteous wrath decreed
that all sinners must suffer eternal punishment in Hell. He believed that he himself
was righteous, but in his wrath he committed crimes. Finally his evil deeds
caught up to him, and he knew himself to be a sinner. By his own Law, he too was
condemned to Hell.
His
only escape from his own Hell was to renounce divinity. So he fell to his knees
and he prayed to whatever God there be, to be a God no more, but instead live
and suffer as a Human.
A
beam of light shone down upon the fallen God, and a voice from Heaven
whispered, “Beware, your prayer is granted.”
Right
away he was reborn as a Human. But he had never been Human before; he wasn’t
very good at it; so he never acquired much wealth, or power, or wisdom. The
former God lived an utterly ordinary life, no better than yours or mine.
Moral: Payback’s a
bitch.
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