I sometimes wonder what would happen to all of us, if there were no villains in this world. How would we be without villains? Would we still have the religions we believe in and which, for the most part, are built from the battle between Good and Evil? With promises of eternal life? Would there have been Zoroastrianism, Manicheism, Gnosticism, Christianity, Mahomedanism? I like John and his gospel: «In the beginning was the word…» he says. But I like it because it annoys me. But why not «In the beginning was fear…» Because David says so in his psalms: «The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.» How can you be afraid of someone who says he loves you? And Jesus says: «My soul is filled with a sorrow of death.» If this is not fear either, then what else is fear? If he knew he would be resurrected, and he did, why was he afraid? When the Devil challenges Jesus to jump from the Temple – If you are the son of God, he says, as you claim, nothing will happen to you. Jesus does not jump. Why? The ancient Greeks had a term for «fear»: Thambos, «fear due to respect for the gods». The Romans were afraid of the gods and called it «Metus Deorum». (Anger of the Gods). They respected the holidays of the gods with sanctity, believing that, otherwise, the gods would get angry and bring trouble for them. Does it seem to you that it is different in your faithful families? Isaac Newton, a brilliant mind, without whom we would not have known anything we know, judges the universe and says that, as it expands, so it will perish, that is, in one point – gravity, you can’t avoid it. But Isaac Newton was a faithful Anglican, Anglicans were more open-minded than Catholics. But he was afraid to completely deny God, so he reserved a special point in his theories. He was afraid. The world’s wisest physicist was afraid of a god he only believed in with his lips. The question here is not about faith but about «yes» or «no». «In the beginning was the word,» says the Apostle of Love. But don’t say if the first word was «yes» or «no».
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