The world as we know it is a violent place. People don't hesitate to hurt, torment, kill another due to a slight difference in the way they look, their skin colour, the language they speak or the faith they follow. A young boy wouldn't hesitate, think twice to button on a vest with an explosive device attached to it and set it off amidst a crowd, where there are innocent and guilty alike, taking the lives of many as well as his own. When did murder suicide become the highest form of spiritual ascension. Someone could question why they are so angry..?.. is it because they are mistreated or is it because they can not express themselves. I'd say they are angry, because their gods are angry. The gods whom they have leased their existence from are angry gods. They demanded to be worshipped in their anger, their absolute power. God who we deem merciful has never once shown mercy, he, not only flung us to earth, he scattered us all over the land, so we shall never speak one language, his language, to share the knowledge stolen by a woman who was expected to be feeble yet managed to challenge the God himself.

The boy who took a weapon to his arms even before he could put a meal on the table is filled with a sense of anger, that he did not give birth to. The hatred he spread did not grow with him in his mother's womb, but was given to him at birth. In his futile attempt to be accepted by a god who has long left the arena, he fuels the hatred with more hatred. Throughout the history, various groups of men have taken arms to put down an enemy who pray to a different god either at an Altar or a on praying mat, but have ever seen the god himself on battle field defending the faithful.?. If gods are benevolent and merciful, why would they demand obedience and unconditional loyalty instead of promoting free will. God is not only angry he is a Tyrant. But then again did god ask any of this from us or have we assumed that these would be the things our gods would prefer.?. There comes the true argument. How would we know what god really wants. If he created us in his image, how is it than any one of us lesser than the other.?. The greatness promised to man is the destination of an arduous journey. It's a test of character with epic proportions. Where we constantly lock horns with the adversary. But aren't these tests, these quests to be completed with little or no violence.?. Aren't we To kill the sin but not the sinner.?. So what justifies killing in the name of god.?. This is when my rational scientific mind argue that the construct of god would only go so far in civilising the beast that is man. Violence is a biological imperative in all animals, coming out of Africa has not alleviate the basic and primitive sense of "survival of the fittest" that helped us reach the top of the food chain and take controle of it within such a short period of time in comparison to the evolutionary process of other beings.

To the rest of the animal world, we are angry gods, and I don't think we would like what we have become if only we could see ourselves through their eyes. So the angry gods we worship, could be a feeble attempt of us humans at justifying our own behaviour, at making sense of the confusion, a projection of our innermost conflict, existential crisis. Coming to terms with our alter ego, our own hubris. We are what we believe, our gods are angry because that is our justification of our own anger. May be it's time to disobey HIM.. again. It is time we find a common language, the language we are denied. A language that will help us become one. A language of love and peace, even if it would mean to abandon our angry gods.


Shehanie Ratnayake.