The God of the Humans

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BigBlueBoxer

The following is the last journal entry of the Senior Bishop Zoolath found after his execution for blasphemy.

For so long we blindly believed what we had been told. Never before had I questioned my faith. But now I fear that my very foundations have been shaken. I no longer know what to believe. Am I going mad? Is this all some sort of grand and extravagant test? If so, I have failed.

When we first encountered the humans, I gave them no more thought than I had with any other newly discovered sentients. Many new sentients are resistant to accepting the truth of the gods until they see them for themselves. Only when they have witnessed their glory and heard the power behind their knowledge. Only when they have experienced the magnificence of their voices do they accept the truth. The truth that the gods worshipped by the Grand Intergalactic Church created all of us. And because of this, they demand the most devout of worship and obedience.

At the time, I had never bothered to jot this event down, but I shall now. I was one of the bishops sent to establish first contact with the humans. They had been discovered when we found they were beginning to colonize outside of their home system. We boarded one of the humans own diplomatic vessels where the greatest leaders of their home planet, "Earth", were gathered. I was initially astonished by how many leaders were present. It appeared that the humans were an extremely disorganized species that would tear each other apart without our guidance.

As I walked aboard the vessel and took in their forms, I noticed their predatory eyes. Eyes arranged on the front of the head were always the sure mark of a predator. Of course, this did not daunt me. My own species, the Tim-Bu-Lok, were predators as well. I was just aware that predatory sentients were almost always more resistant to conversion. But they all converted in the end.