"Just ask yourself," I continued, "who did benefit from this gruesome perversion of the law that forces a community to stone one of its own people to death for such a human act as responding to love? Did the affected families benefit from having one of their spouses publicly executed by the community in this most cruel manner, by throwing stones at a person until the injuries cause death? Of course the effected family of the victim did not be benefited by this insanity. It suffered a great tragedy. Nor did society benefit from putting its own people to death in a rage of 'civil war,' in its persecution of an intensely human act, inspired by love? Society never benefits from putting its people to death, physically or socially, as Goya illustrates in the paining Fight With Clubs from the "Black Paintings" series in his own Black Room. The "Black Paintings" were painted on the walls of his house, probably in recognition that these scenes have dominated mankind for many ages and cannot be resolved while the underlying tragedy is being ignored, since they are the scenes that mankind is living with. So it wasn't society that benefited from the priestly perversion of the Decalogue. Instead the gruesome imposition of death had traumatized society into rejecting its own love for one-another by being forced to kill one-another, even the very persons that people knew and loved. So indeed, the death of truth had been put on the agenda from this time on, and as Goya illustrated, the clerics presided over it. Only the priests had benefited from the insane cruelty of their conjured up perversion of the Mosaic Decalogue. The priests who claimed to 'own' society had an interest in establishing a platform for the same 'ownership' claim over one-another at the grassroots level, and to enforce it. The priests also had an interest in upholding this conjured up claim at the grassroots level with great force lest their own claim becomes invalidated. The priest's entire hierarchical power structure had therefore rested on this 'ownership' mythology. They had to protect this mythology in order to save their claimed power and position. They evidently deemed their imposing the death penalty on society necessary for this reason. So fragile had been their denial of the truth that nothing short of the severest penalty could prevent society from challenging their denial of the truth of the principle of our humanity. The greatest tragedy of the whole process is that society still lives by this ancient game and dances to its tune."

      Sylvia raised her hand, but then let it drop again.

      "It appears to me, Sylvia, that mankind got caught up in a three thousand years cultural war that has not ended to the present day, which continues to be fought by society against itself, even against the most deeply rooted aspect of its humanity, its universal love."

      I continued in a quieter tone of voice after this. "This Three Thousand Years War, as a cultural war, is still directed against mankind's universal love. It is still fought with the perversion of a beautiful and natural platform based on universal principles, into a grotesque travesty that borders on religious terrorism for imperial objectives. We too are caught up in this war, Sylvia, which has been raging for all this time, being carried forward by the most powerful institution that ever shaped the living of society, which is the church. This institution, with only a few rare exceptions in its countless forms has defined the truth for society, and it has defined it contrary to the Principle of Universal Love. That is why it is being said today that the Principle of Universal Love is dead, because the truth is dead. In the modern world many philosophers and scientists have joined the bandwagon of these institutions that have 'murdered' the most vital aspects of the truth. They're riding the burial wagon with the corpse of the truth, drawn by the three horsemen of the modern apocalypse. The three are Thomas Hobbes who says there is no love, and Adam Smith who proves it with the destruction of economics, and the third is the high priest of Global Warming who aims to destroy mankind by preventing the Ice Age Renaissance that we need to save civilization and human living."

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Stories about  Love from novels by Rolf A. F. Witzsche