Aria Jenneth
Caldari
Ghost Festival
Naraka.
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Posted - 2010.02.22 06:03:00 -
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It has seemed to me for a long time that the Amarrian capsuleer, more than most, is faced with a fundamental contradiction, a dissonance set into the very core of your identity. It is a problem that will face some more than others, the variation based upon orthodoxy and close adherence to doctrine, but to underly all to one degree or another, a vein of unclarity-- maybe even a fault.
A question, then, or, perhaps, an experiment in thought.
Let us assume a few things.
First, that your God exists, and that He seeks the establishment of a united humanity, brought together through Amarrian service.
Second, that the more orthodox and conservative among you have the right of your faith: cloning is corruptive, redemption of the fallen impossible.
If this is so, then what are we to say of you?
That you, corrupted, serve a God by the very means of sinning against Him? That you sacrifice your very souls to create His kingdom?
Do you believe that, by doing so, you will merit an exception-- that your God will smile upon your willingness to sacrifice even what is most perfect and holy about yourselves in pursuing His service?
If that is so, why should all others but you cling so tight to the traditions and old ways, flying ships only little-touched by unhallowed technologies, their designs approved by the hierarchy of your faith? In that spaceborne cathedral, that little shrine where you personally worship is a thing alien-- a core of blasphemy, unsanctified Jovian technology.
Do you believe your god simply ... tolerates this, for the sake of your success? Or do you dedicate your lives, selflessly, to a paradise in which you can never participate (hoping you do not taint it in the process)-- the still-loyal bastard children of divinity?
If a god can embrace folly, does this compromise its perfection? Or if that god cannot-- then what worship or loyalty do we, outcast, owe to a deity whose perfection cannot embrace us?
What service or loyalty do you owe to a god whose works will hold no place for you?
It is understood that many of you do not believe these things, but it is clear enough that many of your human kin do. What, then, do you make of that? What will you make of the universe-- and what would you have the universe make of you?
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