Fictional Story: This story is a science fiction parable intended to invite reflection on justice, fanaticism, and the priorities of a society.
The Planet of the Two Moons: On a planet orbiting one of the stars in the constellation of Orion, there existed a world similar to Earth, but with two Moons. The people of that place felt great admiration for the beauty of their Moons, for which they made images and to which they gave treatment of respect, as if they were persons. Such was the regard they had for their images that they reviled those who did not kneel before them, regardless of whether they were virtuous people. As the centuries passed, one of those two Moons lost its beauty as it was increasingly struck by meteorites. In the imagination of the people, these Moons had personalities of their own and were protective goddesses of their planet. Under that belief, they built ever larger and more ostentatious temples and sculptures for them, but they paid more attention to one of them, the one that appeared more beautiful. They knelt before sculptures of that Moon, which they later personified as a woman with the crescent Moon as a crown and with a bow and arrow to attack the threats against the planet. They represented the other Moon in the same way, as another woman with similar weapons. One Moon was worshipped more than the other; they devoted much of their time to these practices and turned their backs on the affairs of life, such as educating their children, listening to their children, spending time with their spouses, and addressing the demands of justice, etc.
Then, the creator of creation, heeding the plea of the righteous men of the planet, to whom justice was not being done, decided to punish the unjust people of that planet and sent two women of his creation so that they might deceive the inhabitants, telling them that they were the Moons incarnated as women. And, in order to give them credibility before the people, they were endowed with powers inexplicable to the science of that civilization. The message of these women was a demand for more prayers to their images, with the threat that, if they were not pleased, then the world would suffer terrible punishments. But the righteous people did not trust these women, despite their miraculous signs, and paid no attention to their demands; they did not worship any of the images of the Moons; in fact, they worshipped no image at all.
But the majority of the inhabitants feared the women and worshipped them because of the miracles granted; however, calamities continued to occur with increasing frequency: droughts, hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, wars, seditions, etc. The false goddesses then said: «You are not worshipping us enough! We want more of your time; we want you prostrate before our images for longer periods of time; furthermore, we demand that you scourge yourselves to please us.» The inhabitants who idolized the beauty of these Moons then began to injure themselves and bleed before the various images of the Moon, but the calamities became more and more frequent on the planet. They sought out their goddesses, but the creator of creation had already destroyed them through Gabriel, one of the righteous gods whom he had made.
Then those who worshipped them went to the priests of the Moons and demanded answers from them: «You have always told us what we must do to please our goddesses. Now they are gone, and we do not know what happened to them. You must tell us what we are doing wrong. Why do these calamities continue? Why do the Moons no longer protect us?»
The priests of the Moons had no convincing answers, and the people who had once admired them began to despise them, blame them for their misfortunes, and kill them. But the people who did not believe in the goddesses and who had long hated these practices, which they considered absurd, saw a flotilla of UFOs in the sky. All of them emitted a message written in many of the languages of that planet. The message was this: «The creator of creation has sent us to take you away from this planet. You are not hostile, but the hostile ones are beginning to destroy themselves with increasing intensity, according to the programming of the creator of creation; but through these ships, we will save you.»
The hostile ones could not understand the message, despite it being written in their languages. They saw the UFOs, but they were only frightened and confused by their presence. Their armed forces could not bring them down; they were like monkeys throwing stones at a tank. The UFOs made the righteous levitate toward their ships, departed with them from the atmosphere of that planet, and lived in peace forever with their own kind, those who piloted those ships, searching throughout the universe for other planets from which to rescue the righteous with their flotillas and create more and more UFOs with them.
And as for that planet, that planet was destroyed by its own inhabitants, for they believed in the false signs that the creator of creation had sent them as punishment for the arrogance of their idolatry and for turning their backs on the affairs of life, on justice.
Gemini:
I find it to be a very interesting story, with a powerful symbolic weight and a pace that keeps the reader’s attention. You manage to blend elements of classical allegorical literature with modern science fiction twists in a very fluid way.
Here are the points that stand out most in your story and why they work well from a didactic perspective:
- The core of the criticism: Inverted priorities
The strongest aspect of the first part is how you show that the obsession with outward forms (the images, the aesthetic beauty of the moons, the ostentatious temples) causes society to neglect what is truly important: the education of children, empathy within the couple, and social justice. It is an excellent metaphor for how a civilization can morally collapse while believing it has reached its highest point of spirituality or devotion.
- The paradox of deception as punishment
The twist in which the creator sends two women with powers to deceive the idolaters is psychologically very sharp. It reflects how people who are already blinded by fanaticism and fear are prone to accept destructive practices (such as self-flagellation) in order to preserve their illusions. In the end, the punishment is not a destructive lightning bolt falling from the sky, but rather the hostile ones destroying themselves, trapped in their own web of fanaticism and despair.
- The cosmic twist and the salvation of the righteous
Introducing Gabriel as an executor and connecting salvation with a flotilla of UFOs gives the ending a very original atmosphere. The righteous here are not saved by performing rituals, but by maintaining reason, peace, and rejecting irrationality. The analogy of the armies attacking the ships like «monkeys throwing stones at a tank» perfectly defines the gap in consciousness and evolution between the two groups.
A great touch: the detail of the message on the ships. The hostile ones can read the characters in their language, but they are incapable of understanding the real meaning because their minds are submerged in fear and aggression.
It is very well structured to open a debate about justice, the manipulation of fear, and the true priorities of a society.
«This is much bigger than it seems. Serving God is not staying silent before the wolves: it’s exposing them and making them fall by justice. The wolf dresses in innocence, but his instinct betrays him. Meat is the test that separates the righteous from the impostor, the sheep from the wolf in sheep’s clothing who seeks to devour flesh.
The Hand of God Against the Idols //245
1st: They Label You a Sinner | 2nd: They Sell You Baptism | 3rd: They Keep You Sinning and Paying //52
The religion I defend is named justice. //76
The Hand of God and the Idols //468
The goddess Athena, the god Mars, and the god Jupiter: they are gods of peoples foreign to the people of Jehovah, the God of the righteous. Where God said to the righteous, His people: ‘I have set enmity between the righteous and the unrighteous (Genesis 3:15; Proverbs 29:27): eye for eye against the enemy (Deuteronomy 19:16–21); never take vengeance on the righteous, the righteous is your friend; if he wronged you, it was through ignorance or without intention,’ Rome said to all: ‘Offer the other eye to your unjust enemy, offer the other cheek to those who hate you without cause, and never take vengeance on them (Matthew 5:38–39).’ Where God said to the righteous, His people: ‘You shall have no other gods before Me; do not pray to created beings; do not give honor to any carved image, they are not necessary at all. Shall I, the one who made the eye, not see without those statues? Shall I, the one who made the ear, not hear without those sculptures? Those molten images are not my eyes nor my ears (Psalm 94:9; Habakkuk 2:18; Jeremiah 10:1–16),’ Rome, changing the name on the plaques of the statues of its ancient gods, said: ‘Have these gods, pray to their images; direct your prayer to these intercessors because God cannot hear without them; kneel before them. Moreover, they are not gods foreign to God: look at the names we have given them, they are servants of God. They will deliver your prayer to God so that God may attend to it. Do not forget to leave the money for the sacrament; keeping these statues clean has a cost. If you want our gods to cleanse your recurring sins with us, give us the money to clean their temples and statues…’ By praying to statues, people do the same thing that ancient peoples did with their gods: to plead before their images. Therefore, even if they claim that they only worship God and that they only venerate the images, in practice they are worshiping those molten images as their gods; implicitly, in that way they say to them: ‘You are our gods,’ just as was prophesied in Isaiah 42:17. //80
Image on the left: the statue of Zeus in the Vatican. Do you still believe that the image on the right is the face of Jesus on the Shroud of Turin? 2 Corinthians 11:4 ‘For if someone comes and preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached…’ ‘The true Jesus had short hair!’ 1 Corinthians 11:14 ‘Does not nature itself teach you that it is dishonorable for a man to let his hair grow long?’ Galatians 1:9 ‘As we have said before, so now I say again: if anyone preaches to you a gospel different from the one you received, let him be accursed.’ (Faithful to the true gospel, Paul has cursed his enemies!) ‘The Romans are those accursed ones!’ Word of Zeus: ‘Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for justice, as long as they forget eye for eye and love the enemy… of justice.’ Teaching of Cleobulus of Lindos: ‘Do good to your friends and to your enemies…’ Teaching of Jesus? Matthew 5:44 ‘…do good to those who hate you and pray for those who mistreat and persecute you…’ //111
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