Intergalactic Summit

I know that God, the central figure of Amarrian religion, does exist. And if any of you, minmatars, will deny it, it will sound just like you will deny existence of the Empire itself, that I doubt you will do.

I don't want you to get me wrong: I am not going to convert myself into Amarrian religion, share beliefs or participate in rituals. I will stay true to beliefs and ideals of my ancestors, and maybe participate in some rituals, that you don't have to know about. But I know that God exists. He exists like you or me.

You will probably tell me, that this is supernatural, that it can't be proved. I will answer beforehand. He is very real. And I don't have to prove anything: you can see Him yourself, if you will want.

Right before the battle starts, when the enemy is ahead, when the fleets are on standby and waiting for order to open fire, look at faces of Amarrian crusaders. Look at each of them and at all of them, and you will see the Face of God.

When the order is given and first volleys are fired, at the moment after sizzling and sparkling emitters swell with overwhelming light and breathe it out through tinkling crystals, and before thousand of dazzling beams like a swarm of needles will pierce hull of a primaried minmatar vessel, that will crumble and burst shortly in a bright red explosion, you will see the Hand of God.

Each Amarrian, each follower of the religion holds part of God in his own heart. When the time comes, when they stand together, backing each other and full of firm resolve, the God will show himself, He will emerge with in all his glory, might and magnificence. And should you stand against them, you will feel how heavy heavens may be, when they fall with all their weight on your shoulders.

Have you had your psych evaluation this month?

To view God as mass conspirator actuating lazer beams and calling primary is the same mindset that drove the Amarr people into a parasitic relationship with the Minmatar in the first place. You use God with a capital insinuating there is one and yet talk about the interest of this presence as if there is another which the Amarr must vanquish. If there is only one God which drives the Amarr forward the agenda of this power would not be to destroy its own creations. God in all other sects of belief is a representation of community and protection except in twisted cases where the figure has been manipulated to represent favoritism and subjegation. To assume you or anyone interested in their own advancement has any idea the spiritual objectives of God is heretical to ones owns faith. All Amarrians who do not recognise their failure to find favor in any spiritual light by supporting slavery will be sorely mistaken in the afterlife. As will those who recognise the power of God and choose to the ride the proverbial fence of devotion fearing future change and ethical reformation.

I know that the Kingdom has a slightly different relationship with The State than the Empire does, but still. It seems to me that the relationship will last for as long as our need to stand together against the alliance between the Gallente and the Minmatar overrides any compulsion for us to tread on the cultural distinctiveness of each other.

The other factor would be that the alliance is only important for so long as the Gallente and the Caldari remain in emnity and the Amarr and the Minmatar remain in emnity. Obviously, if any faction should shake loose the shackles of hate that bind it to it's nemesis, the alliance would no longer be necessary.

Thus it should hold firm for quite some time to come.

Firstly, God is not the "God of Amarr" - he is the God of everyone, no matter what their bloodline is.

Secondly, He exists independently of human experience.

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. I could poke fun at your magic tattoo, after all.

I don't like saying this very often, but Diana Kim has the right of it. God, as the Amarr believe in god, exists in the crusaders. Their faith is a very powerful thing, and can drive them to extremes, in both the positive and negative sense of that. The Minmatar drive for freedom and/or revenge is similar.

The Caldari religions, as far as I have studied them, appear to have the opposite effect, working as a moderating influence. You won't find too many Caldari willing to die for The Way, for instance, but you will find a lot of them quietly meditating on the concept and using it to ground themselves.

That's ridiculous, of course the Empire exists, it has to so they could make their God up.

Excuse me, but I am not a follower of the religion under discussion and, disregarding my admiration, I have no association with it. There are many other religions and Gods, and, omitting question about their existence, there are still their names or concepts about them. Thus, taking into account my affiliation, I had to indicate explicitly what God Im talking about.

A smarter debater might have sensed I was speaking of the magic part of it, instead of the ink. And clearly you don't regard a pair of syringes as equipment. I do.

The point was not for me to poke fun at Matari beliefs, merely to point out that you yourselves take some things on faith.