MODERN PARABLE: YAHWEH AND HIS BROTHER

 

Yahweh once had a brother whose name was never revealed. In the beginning, they had split up the duties of creation. So much to do! They had much different temperaments: Yahweh was impatient with a temper and quite anal about keeping things orderly and elegant. After all, his name was going on the things he created! His brother, while just as hard-working, had a more playful and laid-back attitude about his creations. It drove Yahweh nuts. It made him sick to his stomach seeing the weird carny sideshow critters of his brother's: insects with multiple heads, bizarre sea creatures that looked like giant anuses, giraffes, proboscis monkeys to name a few. The final straw was the duck-billed platypus which looked like it was put together by some drunken committee, not an all powerful diety! And look what these crazy things did to the portfolio! Yahweh had had enough and came up with a scheme to get his bro out of the creation biz for awhile. He sent Bro out on an fact finding mission to the farthest part of the universe (which was still expanding) and report back in say, couple of million years. Cool! said Bro and off he went. Yahweh, while he could not undo what his brother made, did set into place the concept of evolution. Eventually they will evolve out of their awfulness, He thought. He forbade the entire hierarchy of angels from EVER revealing the existence of the Bro. No hint whatsoever in any of the sacred texts that the Holy Spirits inspired the apes to write. Of course, this was something that the rebel Satan loved to needle Yahweh about, much to His great annoyance. Satan never failed to get His goat by bringing up the unknown Bro whenever problem family matters on Earth arose, smirking "Whatyagonnado? Send me to Hell? Hello? I'M ALREADY THERE!" This went on for millennia until the Seraphim got together and quietly suggested that Yahweh consider going into early retirement by creating a son who would take over the daily duties of running the universe while Yahweh stayed in overall charge. So, with Jesus in place, a guilt-ridden Yahweh began searching for the Bro but never found him. The Seraphim are in general agreement that Bro still exists, way out there but has disguised himself from detection. It is, as the Catholics say "one of the Mysteries."