And 4 Billion Years Afterwards

( a continuation of the previous blog "A Story 4 Billion Years in the Making" )

As of this writing, after around 6,000 years of human recorded history, the greatest danger to humanity continues to be humanity itself.

Simply put, humans can't seem to perceive each other from the same standpoint. Religion and contravening racial interests breed never-ending wars between Islamic peoples and Jews in Israel and the Middle Eastern nations surrounding it. The dogmatic belief that paler-skinned peoples stand superior physically and intellectually above darker-skinned peoples time and time again surfaces, as attested by the perpetual existence of White Supremacists. The world at large repeatedly witnesses genocide on a massive scale, from tribal wars in Congo and Sierra Leone in the Africas, to the former Yugoslavian Republics in Central Asia.

Even in this land of ours, Pinoys are not immune themselves from the temptation to segregate people into different classes. Probinsyanos are snidely denigrated by the city-bred, metropolitan "elite" Pinoys, and are treated with less courtesy and respect. Pinoys with foreign descent ( so called Fil-Ams, Fil-Norweigans, Fil-Swiss, Fil-Korean...the list goes on and on ) are more often the objects of admiration and envy, in contrast with the haphazard, mundane regard Pinoys have for fellow pure-blooded Pinoys.

Most recently, the election of Barack Obama as the first American President of African descent has been hailed, almost universally, as one of the greatest victories against barriers of race and social class. That this praise has been heaped and trumpeted to the point of overkill comes as no surprise, since it has never been lost to the majority of the world population that humans do discriminate against one another, and that this crude attitude has persisted for so long that President Obama's election rises up as an angry fist ( perhaps, one of the distinct few ) against its overwhelming presence.

Sadly, the delusions of religious dogma don't seem to impress upon us the real worth of each and every human being. Most of them teach that man was made in a day, or in a single second. Some of them preach that white-skinned peoples are the best of the Creator's cooked bread from Its kiln, whereas people of different color were either "half-baked" or "scorched", therefore imperfect. Some of them even say that humans can never be of the same status because a particular race is the "Chosen People". Balderdash!

As I've pointed out, it would be better to appreciate each human as the product of a Creator which labored billions of years to make us what we are now. Friend, you may be rich, beautiful or good-looking, powerful and influential, but that street urchin begging for any scrap of food outside your car
is made of the same fiber and blood that took infinitesimal eons to develop, like your own. Friend, you may be white, but those darker-skinned people all around you were lavished the same care and attention by the Creator the way It did by you.

Friend, myths of religion don't really tell you everybody's true worth. Believe me, false religous dogma didn't do anything to make people treat each other better for thousands of years. It definitely won't be able to do so in several thousands more. And no, the Creator could never do anything in a day.