Anonymous asked:
There may or may not be a god. We're working on building a few of our own, to neutralise the threat posed by any preexisting gods. We hope to be in a position to withstand any divine hostilities by around 2085, but in the meantime diplomatic and economic countermeasures must make up the balance.
Man, this is a bit too close to some worldbuilding I did where, in the wake of a supervolcano eruption, a bronze-age civilization flipped from being polytheists to being anti-theists. The Storm the Heavens and Cast Down the Golden Thrones kind of anti-theists, not the internet article writing kind. (A cult expanded in the wake of the catastrophe and became the new religion.)
They are to train over multiple reincarnations for the literal, not metaphorical, battle at the end of time.
Anyhow, the good news is that gluten has been deemed one of their unholy foods.