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Only if you want it

"Only if you want it" is flash-fiction story by Russell Cavanagh that's about the god who really rules this world and his minions who run it.

"Is it me or is everything getting more miserable by the day?"

    "In what way?"

    "It's one step forward, two steps back all the time. Whatever I receive in one hand gets taken away by the other, like my life is being manipulated, as if everything's being controlled at every turn."

    "Who do you think is behind this?"

    "The same people trying to burn the word down right now? I dunno, there does seem to be a connection."

    "Every war, if that's what you mean, is certainly a blood sacrifice, one that's part of a greater ritual. Misery makes this world go round - or, rather, flat, ha ha."

    "Meaning what?"

    "Do you believe there are 'chosen people' carrying out the will of some greater being, on behalf of something in the spiritual realm?"

    "Eh ... it does seem that way ... Hey, wait a minute ... You mean ...?"

    "Yes."

    "But how can you, you of all people, believe they are 'God's chosen people'?"

    "Forget the O.T. smokescreen. They actually are 'chosen' - only it's by the god of this world, Satan. Read Ezekiel 8 and you'll get a better idea."

    "And these ... parasites run and control everything, having now bought it all up?"

    "Not only that. Their god feeds off our misery. He suckles off of the violence we do to each other. That's why his 'chosen people' ferment bloodshed and war in this world."

    "Shit! So there really is no way out, no hope ..."

    "Not at all."

    "Uh?"

    "I can give you some wonderfully Good News. But only if you want it."





CC BY-ND 4.0 Russell Cavanagh

Ephesians 6:10-18


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