False Idols of the Known World
At man's height, the heresy of Syncretism took root. In our hubris, we sought to interpret the Gospels to better understand them, and grasp the totality of Heaven. We can do this no more than mice grasp the scope of a behemoth, and our efforts were futile. But so titanic were the engines and sorcery and artifice bent towards this end, that Creation itself grew strained, and broke. Space distorts, time bends, the Un-Worldly slip through the cracks and grow in number. For all the succor to the spirit that the Gospels give, they could not mend such a tear, and the world was thereafter changed without hope of reversal. Is it any surprise so many have run back to the old faiths, the forgotten gods, in the hope that they will find something which will? Oh, each of these is a path to ruin, for certain. Be it in the long centuries of decay or damnation in the present, any faith devoid of Heaven's Gospel allows the seed of Primeval Sin to take root. Only those which de...