AN: This topic has been on my mind since i read Frankenstein by Mary Shelley last year. The spur to action happens to be the recent Christmas Earthquake, and the work oflogical-unreason,I hope he/she will read this.

Our Lord Forsaken, or is it We that He has Deserted

God and his creation of man and woman; Doctor Frankenstein and his creature, a strange but just comparison. Both were the givers of life and intellect, but where the Doctor hated his creation, the question stands whether God also follows. Mary Shelley published Frankenstein in 1818, as a warning to mankind to refrain from playing God, yet we time and time again forget that message, Frankenstein has been turned from a novel meant for morals and ethics, into a brainless mass of horror and gore. Not unlike this, most of us no longer look upon the bible as a recount to events that once happened, but as another book filled with fantastical tales that have been disproved by science time and again. True to say that the bible is written by the chauvinistic men of the time, and that the world did not begin with us as we are, but the tales hold truth, truth and warnings that we now ignore.

Frankenstein created the monster, to prove that mankind was just as good as God, and that had led to his downfall. Perhaps we too tempt fate, with all the cloning, and biological mutations that we create willingly. Many see the making of contained destruction as the making of power, but weapons that we can no longer control cannot be power, it we be the doom of us all. Absolute power corrupts absolutely; God has seen this in us. He sees the sins we have done, and without questioning the innocents, they were used as examples, and culled to his satisfaction.

How can we still say that God loves us when he has shown frequently that he has grown tired of humanity. We do not change, “different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature”, states Mary Shelley, and though there is often hope for mankind in those that show kindness, it cannot be long before the next disaster similar to the Great Flood will come. For this time it cannot be a great flood, though the Christmas tidal waves come close; the proof is in Genesis 9:11, “I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.” ….Genesis 9:16, “Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant…” he stayed true to his words. It did not destroy the earth, the tidal waves buried it in water, and it did not destroy all life, just many thousands of lives. There was no rain, hence no rainbow; hence he did not remember his promise to us. Or that he did remember and decided a way around it.

Frankenstein’s creature jumped into the water in the end, presumably to destroy itself in coldness, it could be that Shelley prophesized we would be destroyed in an ice age as suggested in The Day After Tomorrow. The Armageddon that we fear may be once of ice and snow, where Nature has decided to take matters into her own hands and punish us for all the wrong we have done to her. Samuel Taylor Coleridge also mentions a similar cautionary tale in the poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, where the Ancient Mariner is cursed because he killed the Albatross that the Spirit of the North had loved.

But with all the weapons of mass destruction we are creating, and the terrorism that rages the world, Nature may not need to take a hand. If there is no peace in the world, the wars will carry on, World War III is at hand, and with our advanced technologies it could well lead to the destruction of humanity. The nuclear bombs will spread radioactive waves all over the surface of the earth, changing the natural patterns of the planet, and causing devastating geological disruptions in the movements of weather. It could be a holocaust that would lead to the world that Isobelle Carmody describes in her Obernewtyn Chronicles, where the seasons are unstable, and nature is dotted with radioactive wastes as well as storms that rain fire or acid. Even in that world humanity does not change, where the people that live in the book discriminate the “misfits”, humans that were mutated by the radiation that remained even after the holocaust.

God has violated the day of peace and goodwill that is Christmas, so that now it will be another day in which we must mourn. The fighting will end only when those who wish for ultimate power are gone. We wish for equality, not to be exactly the same, individuality and the right to think freely, to worship what gods we believe in. God can be worshipped in many forms, and even if we do live are lives idolizing another form of Him, how can it be that he cannot see that we only worship one God in the end. The God that we worship and believe in is one that is loving and protecting, but the same God has shown us no mercy when He destroyed the lives and homes of so many in one blow. If he wished to show his power, he has done so, he has shown us that power is a dangerous thing, for even angels can be corrupted, as Lucifer, Satan once was. If God has turned from us, we will live on as we always have. But the Lord seems unmerciful and seems to be bent on vengeance. There is no saint to guide us on the path of enlightenment. Where is the new Savior when we are on the brink of darkness; it is doubtful that he will come, when God has shown that he no longer favors us, now that his pet humans do not heed his words, there is no need for him to save us because he no longer loves us. Our Creator will either watch us as we destroy ourselves, or be more humane and kill us all to end our suffering. God has forsaken us.

The End.

Believe me when I say, this is not the end! I keep coming up with ideas that contradict myself. I guarentee a minimum of three essays! viewed through the eyes of :

a) a believer in despair - ie. this essay

b) a believer with hope - there will be a new Jesus, there will be a Noah

c) the non-believer - The world is gonna be destroyed by man, there is no God.