There was, therefore, a God. Even ommitting certain logical steps in reaching that conclusion, there was.

If you want proof go to a great big cathedral, read a wisdom text, visit a graveyard, just look at the past basically. God existed.

OK, so I can’t prove that he existed as you exist - not in that dreadfully dull make provisions for your family, go to work, fuck, kill, wander about looking miserable way. No. But like the ideals of freedom, truth, democracy, love and rights for the unborn child exist…

You know this already.

God died.

In philosophy he was killed, like a hobbling old woman mugged for her chip money.

In physics he was executed for not being able decide whether or not a photon should go through one very thin slit in a piece of card or another.

In mathematics he had sat in the centre of an enormous maze for centuries until a nervy man with glasses pointed out that - not only were many of the paths in the maze dead ends, but even if you tried them all, you could never conclusively prove that any particular end was dead. God was left to rot.

He choked, in religion, on a badly made fairy cake.

In the creative arts he was usurped, strung up and made mock of. The artists said ‘hah! no longer shall we name your animals! We have a new name for all the detritus and hideousness that littereth thy planet - it is… ART’. And God swung in the breeze.

In War, his plagues and pestilences were outsmarted in the secret laboratories.

In technology, new things were made to solve the oldest and most bizarre of God’s insistences - The greatest being concievable being man.

And in the matter of academic thought he had sat in the centre of an enormous maze for centuries until a nervy man with glasses pointed out that - not only were many of the paths in the maze dead ends, but even if you tried them all, you could never conclusively prove that any particular end was dead. God was left to rot.

In all but everywhere else, God swung in the breeze. And certain things were decided.

1)There is no God

BUT

2)There was a God Function

ADDITIONALLY

3)God may not exist without man

SO

4)The God Function is the Invention of Man

THEREFORE

5)Man may invent God

Mankind had reached a fork in the road/divergence in the path/Quantum superposition/moment of critical choice.

We have two choices, he announced, we may sit around saying God is dead, allowing therefore that all opinions are as valid as all opinions and all realities are as valid as all realities and all art is as valid as all art and all that is not art is art and all that is not true is true as all that is true is false and basically let us play.

Or we may invent God.

The scientists and mathematicians set about inventing God. They invented the non-euclidian geometries and the non-euclidian geometries were God. They invented the RSA cipher and the RSA cipher was God. They invented the idea of the Quantum supercomputer and the idea was God. They could not demonstrate whether or not epimenides the cretan was a liar and the impossibility, too, was God.

The Cultural Academy had no wish to invent God, so instead they sat around and played. The word was God, but they demonstrated the failings of the word. The word was with God, but God was a word and the word God was with God and so on until everything died…

with God.

The logic, as with the scientists, is undeniable. But the conclusion is dangerous and sickening.

Let us cease to play.

Let us invent God

Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Seeks to invent God.