>>1488015
As it pertains to life on earth, "God" is a collection of exemplary dramas metastasizing over time into a single meta story. This warrior was admirable, tell a story about him. That warrior was admirable, tell a story about him. Do that 1000 times over centuries and the collective psyche puts forward a meta-personification of what it means to be a warrior within that culture. It's pleasantly Darwinian. Social natural selection. Those that are the most competent, admirable, "story worthy" are remembered for their strengths, competencies, and their actions. Their faults lost in the chaos of the century spanning narrative.
What results is a god of war.
You have gods of love, gods of nature, gods of water, gods of sun, gods of hate, gods of evil. Any physical or psychological characteristic humans find important is dramatized and contributes to the meta cultural story.
This is polytheism.
Then these gods start to go to war with one another, figuratively. The resulting champion of the pantheon, the supreme god, the king of kings...They are the meta god. Where polytheistic gods are meta humans. Monotheistic gods are meta meta humans. They are the extrapolation from the inter-generational identity of what it's like to be human in every aspect. Every emotion, every thought, every light and every darkness that shines or shadows the human heart is represented in the monotheistic god. The traits that are most human, most important, are what they display. The ability to observe, to learn, to think, to communicate, to speak, these are what ultimately are the most important traits of being human. It's our ability to create order from chaos. Our ability to work together and form collective future realities from nothing. Christianity takes this idea and goes a step further. It's the embodiment of the metameta story within the individual that makes society good. Pick up your suffering and move forward. Shoulder your cross and climb that hill. Because what other choice do we have? Evil, malevolence, destruction, hate, pain, torture...
The conduit of light is love. The pursuit of truth, shouldering of responsibility, and betterment of your family and community is love.
The conduit of darkness is corruption. Evil inherently requires a host. It needs to spread through means of control, blackmail, and takes previously loving souls and corrupts them and bend them to the will of evil. This allows the pyramid to grow where those at the top are the only ones who know the truth. The extent of the corruption that has occurred within the greater light-bearing society.
This is why evil is dark, inherently hidden, because once light shines on it, once the corruption is revealed to the greater society, the retribution is swift.