The Divine Dissimulation [Complete]

Chapter 47 Death to the Sodomites

Yehuda was a farmer and a father of eight children. He lived a good life following the decrees of the Abrahameon and to reward this Lucifer had promoted him to the high priest for his tribe to rule and lecture the villagers. While Lucifer and the other angels had been very present during the first years on Eden, their presence became less and less noticeable as the years passed by. 20 years after the Yehuda and his family woke up on Eden the angels were only spotted sporadically, usually to solve problems or collecting offerings.

Yehuda had lost one of his daughters in the selection. Her name was Helena, and she had been one of the cutest girls on all of Eden. Yehuda felt bittersweet about his loss. While it was a great honour that Abraham chose Helena to accompany him in heaven, it was sad to not see her grow up and have a family.

Yehuda often wondered what happened to the chosen girls after the selection.  He had gathered the courage to ask Lucifer, who had told him that he should be happy for Helena. Grandmaster Abraham had selected his daughter to receive direct entry to heaven while most people had to follow the Abrahameon strictly and live a good life to reach heaven when they died. As Helena was picked while she was still pure, she was saved from the horrors and torment of hell that awaited sinners when they died.

Although this had relieved Yehuda of his worst woes, it also confused him. Lucifer had mentioned that Helena was in paradise with Grandmaster Abraham.  But on another occasion, Lucifer had told Yehuda that the enchanted cylinder that selected girls entered before leaving Eden was to prevent them from suffocating when leaving Eden. This made sense to Yehuda as he once had climbed Mount Sinai looking for Lucifer and had realised that it was challenging to breathe at a higher altitude.

But if the only way for a human to reach paradise were to die, why would Lucifer bring an enchanted Cylinder to stop the selected girls from suffocating? Yehuda concluded that some things were not understandable for ordinary men and that Grandmaster Abraham had a plan that benefitted everyone on Eden.

While Yehuda missed Helena but was happy for her eternal salvation; Yehuda was concerned about his son Simon. Yehuda had tried to arrange a marriage for him so he could be fruitful and multiply, but Simon had refused to comply, as he insisted that his true love was a man named Christopher. Simon’s homosexuality broke Yehuda’s heart, and he hoped that Simon would not face eternal damnation in hell for his ungodly desires.

Choosing, a life of sodomy was against the commandment that humans should be fruitful and multiply. Simon had brushed off his father's concern and replied that Grandmaster Abraham wanted everyone to love and be loved, and since he was created this way, there was no way his love could be sinful. Besides there was no explicit ban on homosexuality in the Abrahameon.

Failing to convince Simon about his mistake, Yehuda still loved him and tirelessly tried to introduce him to different women hoping that one of them would trigger his natural desire to procreate. Yehuda had even pleaded with Lucifer to try and cure Simon's affliction. Lucifer had not shown the issue much interest and just stated that Yehuda's other six children seemed well adapted and with Grandmaster Abraham blessings Yehuda's bloodline was bound to expand and prosper in the future. Grandmaster Abraham did not expressively forbid sodomy, and Lucifer himself could not care less how the humans of Eden were directing their s****l energies.

In the middle of Yehuda's thinking Grandmaster Abraham appeared like a mirage in the room. He commanded Yehuda to gather all the villagers at once and head for Mount Sinai. Once they reached Mount Sinai, they realised that it would not be a friendly announcement. There were fire and smoke around the mountain, and the angels were dressed in terrifying black armour with spikes and blood. Fear and confusion spread among the villagers that had to stand in anticipation until everyone had arrived. The waiting lasted for hours, as population growth had caused people to found villages further away from the centre of Eden.

When everyone was gathered, Abraham appeared as a gigantic illusion standing above the angels. He was wearing his usual robe and cane but to signify the importance of today’s assembly he was also wearing his divine crown. Abraham’s eyes were burning with anger and his voice shouted out.

-          People of Eden. Too many of you engaged in ungodly and unnatural behaviours.

-          I have commanded you to be fruitful and multiply, and yet many of you pursue practices that contradict this command!

-          Yes, I talk about men who sleep with men, women with women, b********y and other sick practices that I have witnessed being an all-seeing god

-          This must end today. The following people step forward.

Abraham started shouting out names. He was aware of a total of 300 homosexuals out of the current population that had risen to 6000. While it would be convenient to wipe them all out at once, he wanted to instil the largest amount of fear. Besides by outing all the homosexuals and punish some of them publicly, he was sure to get some entertainment later when the religious mobs of Eden made short work of any undesirables.

Abraham instructed the angels to divide the sodomites into two groups, one consisting of 60 individuals and the other made up of 240 persons.  The 60 were the condemned ones, and Abraham read out the allegations loudly for everyone to hear.  Yehuda's son Simon was one of them. "Not only had Simon, son of Yehuda chosen to perform unnatural acts with men, but he had done so against his father's wishes and disregarded all attempts to change his mind and lay with a woman which was the natural thing to do. For such a wicked sinner, there was only one way to go, to be cleansed by fire. "

The 60 condemned sodomites were placed on an elevated platform surrounded by an invisible forcefield that stopped them from leaving. They were then slowly roasted in front of the spectating crowds by an orbiting laser. The smell of burnt flesh was covering the valley. But Abraham was not going to let them have a swift death. So, periodically the fires were extinguished, and stimulants and oxygen pumped into the area to ensure that everyone was awake and suffering. This process went on for three hours straight. Eventually Abraham had seen enough. He set the laser to full effect and killed everyone.

Abraham Goldstein:

-          Remember this day people of Eden! Every year on this day 60 sodomites will burn on this mountain. I am leaving it to you to deliver them to me. If you do not do so, it’s because you are protecting these abominations.  If you do more of you will suffer!