The Negative Theology of Human Beings

The gods are like people to the extent that they get quite indignant when they're not treated respectfully. The ancients did all kinds of terrible stuff to each other And whether or not it was approved of depends on the story and on who's point of view you're looking at but so But there are these two different theories of what's changed one theory is that We used to think there were these few gods up there and the rest of us weren't gods Then we changed our mind to decide we were gods too. Another theory perhaps added to that is that we had a new theory about how gods should treat each other It seems fragile to the possibility of introducing a whole slew of new kinds of