Looking for God

[not_snake_bite]

Having had a discussion with Laurel on the matter a while ago, Steerpike has managed to bring together his courage, and did what most people do. He wrote an advert, and is sitting next to it in the common room.  He's not sure what happened that other night, but it had something otherworldly to it, and what with not really knowing who he is, he

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[fingersofleaf]

A friendly grin. "Hi! Mordred said about you askin' about everything."

[not_snake_bite]

"Aye. I want to learn about God." He's got at least that portion down. It's progress.

[fingersofleaf]

"Welllll, you can have God without Jesus and the Spirit, but it don't exactly work out right."

[not_snake_bite]

"Tell me. I would know everything."

Oh dear. The mystery of the Holy Trinity. Good luck, Percy.

[fingersofleaf]

He laughs. "Okay. We better sit down."

[not_snake_bite]

Steerpike makes a gesture towards the chair next to him.

[fingersofleaf]

So Percy plunks himself gently down. "Well, see, there's God, way back at the beginnin'. And God made just about the whole world."

[not_snake_bite]

Huh.

"How?"

[fingersofleaf]

"Well, account of He's God. That's just a fact. He made it up out of nothing, land and seas and trees and animals and folks--he made folks out of dirt."

[not_snake_bite]

"Dirt?" He tilts his head to the side.

[fingersofleaf]

"Yep. He shaped 'em up and then breathed 'em livin'."

[not_snake_bite]

We're sorry, Percy, but when you put it that way, it does sound a bit crazy.

"Huh." Is what Steerpike manages to articulate.

[fingersofleaf]

All creation myths do, you'll notice. It's a fact of creation stories, that they don't really work in a logical way. Just look at Corn Woman, or the Roman pantheon.

Percy nods cheerfully. "And gave 'em a garden ta tend."

[not_snake_bite]

Indeed, indeed. The Kevala includes a duck, so, you know...

"A garden?"

[fingersofleaf]

There you go!

He nods again. "A garden, and all kinda animals, and that's where they lived, except they disobeyed him and he sent 'em out to work the world."

[not_snake_bite]

"So this life is punishment."