The Lost People

I'll try something new here, as I do believe it will be a good experiment. I sure hope I don't land up boring people to death instead...

In a ruinous land, far from civilization (and thankfully for that) was a large structure of much importance to the history of the development of mankind. An ancient school, or bath, a public house of the poor, or a meeting place for an ancient government practice, or maybe even a mini city within another. So large and vast was this structure, that even after decades of research one couldn't quite tell what purpose it served, but could only tell that it served one of great importance. Lost was the past in the depths of darkness, and when the light reemerged it was too far submerged, and thus lost forever.

It was rain that poured forth, like the ravings of a madman, threatening to destroy the meaning of life and death. This destructive storm seemed to wash away the sins of man, but in reality all it did was cover up the sins of man in a veil of purity. Thus those who walked the earth, seemingly pure, were in reality the worst of sinners, and those who seemed soiled were the true pure men of the earth. What was the purpose of such a veil on the morality of mankind? What was the reason for living in such a world of deception? Here this tale begins…

It was a time when the intelligent life on our planet depended on the existence of a superior being. Please the Gods, perform ridiculous rituals to make them happy and these Gods would let the rain pelt down to water the crops, or let the sun shine to take away the bitter cold of the winters. It was a time when people believed that there was an entity who had nothing better to do than look over all of mankind, and watched each being perform good or bad deeds, and accordingly reward them or punish them for all that they have done. In those times it was also believed that one could visit a few places and be washed away of all sins, or buy their way into heaven (which was like an afterlife paradise). For the rest of the people, there was hell (where all the sinners were sent to, to be tortured for eternity). They say these Gods were all forgiving, admit your mistake and reform, and you will be forgiven, but for the sins you have committed, you would be sent to burn in hell.

What was even more bizarre was that even at that time, no one agreed on one supreme being, everyone had their own concept of a God, and they kept fighting over who’s concept of a superior entity was better.

It was a strange time, and the consequences of this dependence on a supreme entity were finally burdening the world and its entire population. People were so adamant about their beliefs that they refused to give them up for peace and prosperity. Wars broke out, and there were terrorist attacks widespread in the lands, yet these people refused to understand the importance of giving up their beliefs to save the lives of millions. Some of the more intelligent groups even used this concept called religion (worship of a higher being) to hide their true purpose for spreading chaos, which was mostly economic or political.

What makes it worse is the fact that not only was the Homo sapiens affected, but so were all the other creatures and vegetative life on the planet. Species were going extinct, and as the vegetation on Earth decreased, the temperatures started rising, and strange meteorological phenomenon started to take place. The world became empty of the sources of energy, and no one seemed to care enough to conserve the little they had, nor did they try to find and widely implement other safer forms of energy.

As time went on, people became malicious; the world was no longer a friendly place to live in. Crime rates increased, more people were murdered, raped, more thefts took place, more gangs walked the streets. People were afraid of leaving their houses, poverty increased, the quantity of good people decreased. Soon enough the world was struck with an economic crisis (this of course was unrelated to religion), resulting due to the existence of pseudo-money in many firms. When this scam was uncovered, the world was in a state of disarray, for no one quite knew how to handle the situation. Everyday the few sane people left would have to stop and ask, what is wrong with the world we live in? What is wrong with people? Are sex, drugs, violence, money, and fame, all that people live for these days?

Just when the few intellectuals had given up hope, they found they were right in doing so. These intellectuals were the only ones who called themselves Atheists, those who worshipped no one. They realized that the world depended far too much on this superior God to make the world a better place. They were the only ones who realized that to make the world a safe place to live in every person on the planet had to give up their belief in this God and believe in themselves and work to make the world a better place. They also knew that this religious bane had to be removed so that at least a few of the world’s problems could be solved, and so other important issues could be handled.

They spoke out against this religion rubbish, and tried to make the people see that only they could save the Earth from utter ruin. They told people that half their problems lie in this false belief and that people were much too intelligent for such gibberish, but their voices were suppressed. They were termed the demons out to ruin the peace and prosperity of the world by spreading their lies and corrupting the minds of innocent believers. Luckily at that time, they could not be condemned to death, but were only converted into outcasts of society. They were not allowed to help better the Earth.

They formed a society for all Atheists, to try and find a solution to this virus called religion that had spread throughout the world. They knew that in the world today, there was no space for a Godly being, because man had discovered so much in science in technology that there was no need to explain most strange phenomenon. People already knew what was happening. They knew religion existed in the ancient world because they did not know what was happening, so they created this entity to have an explanation for all that occurred in the world. Sadly the world has always been cruel to those who go against religious preaching; the world has always condemned those who know the truth before their time. Uniqueness and intelligence have never been rewarded.

This society spoke out against what was happening in the world, thinking a large group will be stronger than an individual. They took a stand against injustice, a stand against foolishness, a stand against religion, a stand to make the world a better and smarter place, a stand to remove evils like terrorism and remove prejudice against certain people because of what religious teachings taught other people.

Sadly all the intellects that were a part of this society suddenly disappeared off the face of the Earth, in a so-called “sad accident” involving a terrorist bombing of their station. They had been disbanded. No one cared much to look into the issue, and in fact there was much rejoicing in certain parts of the world for the devil in disguise of Atheists was finally dead. The veil that had fallen on mankind was much too heavy to remove.

Bleak was the future into which the world was thrust. Things did not improve, in fact conditions only worsened. Finally the human race destroyed themselves due to global warming and a nuclear war.

Today mankind is no more, for evolution took a step further out of which we have come to be. To us there is no such thing as a supreme being who controls everything that happens in the world, to us there’s only us and all that nature, science, and technology can give us. We are an evolved race of intellectuals. After finding out so much about the past from where we have come, the only conclusion I can come to about those ruins is that it must have been a place of worship. To us there is no God, which explains why it took us so long to discover the purpose of those ruins. Oh the irony.