Better gods for a future world

There are countless video games that have made better heroes than the gods people worship. Why haven’t we replaced our boring shepperd Gods with ones that would suit our modern aspirations & mythologies?

For example, here is a pacifist cyborg that ended thousands of years of senseless war on Earth, stopped the Earth from being blown up, and helped clean the sky humans had polluted during the conflict. She was willing to risk everything she had to do it, and nearly killed herself in the process.

What a praise-worthy superhero! She actually never caused problems, but cleaned up other people’s problems.  Can you even think of a single God that never did caused trouble, but only cleaned up other peoples’ messes? Sora never caused any trouble, ever! The God of the bible created more problems than he solved, and even Buddhism has its wrathful deities and wars with the Asuras. (Admittedly, Buddhism is much better than Christianity.)

I would rather live in a future where the bible had been replaced by a religion with a better morals, or at least better mythology. A band of humans who joined together to repel an alien invasion in ancient times would have been a much cooler belief to talk about with religious freaks than the pre-Noah universe.

With all the space opera, time-travel, and alternate universe stories, isn’t it  lame how religions still can’t create better gods than your average game programmer? I’d still rather worship Megaman or a mech pilot than Ron Hubbard or Jesus. Sadly, we are still constrained to the most boring of ancient mythologies…

Worship Suguri, not Christ

 Individualists make their own gods to idolize

To start off, Suguri has to be oldest living God in the world I’ve heard of.*  She is a 46 billion year old “Goddess” who used to be a human before she became a lonely cyborg, and stopped talking to anyone for a billion years.

*(Buddhas do appear to be older in the Lotus Sutra, but I don’t fully understand Buddhism or its kalpas, so I’ll ignore it.)

I wonder if her author and illustrator realizes that he worships the savior-goddess he created. He loves her enough to have drawn new art of her nearly every week for nearly ten years, and still does on twitter. He would be wise not to bother with marriage, or his wife will be jealous of the attention he puts into his goddess.

Her backstory puts Captain Planet to shame too. It doesn’t get more heroic than spending countless years to fix a polluted Earth all by yourself, and then defending the newly saved Earth from alien invaders all by yourself.

Fyi, here is Suguri’s backstory to prove how heroic she is:

The earth had been utterly destroyed by war.

Suguri was a cyborg who began to bring the Earth back to life plantings trees and stuff for thousands of years.

In the vast and wide Earth, she was only one person who would endeavor to do whatever it took.

She gave humans hope and made them want to work together.brought them together.

Then she risked her life fighting to protect her Earth when the invaders came.

I’m moved! Why aren’t you worshiping cute little Suguri? It’s crazy to worship a baby Hebrew god that allegedly created the Earth only 6,000 years ago. That and he has done a poor job of showing himself, protecting us, or helping with our problems. (He seems to create more problems than he causes actually, like hell and Satan.) But Suguri was so awesome she sacrificed herself to save the Earth from problems she didn’t start TWICE!