Twinkle Burrow

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Fair God

What kind of a God are you?

A fair one.

A fair one!? A fair one would not cause all this damage. For all it took me to believe you a God, and I see now that you are as helpless as I am!
Dearie, do not consider me helpless. I am a fair God, not a good one. I do not choose between good and evil, I am the one who maintains balance. For if not so, if I sided with goodness alone, those evil will have no redemption. I am fair, for all can reach me.

But if someone has been labeled evil, is that not for a purpose? Do you not just justify your idleness with this argument, why do you not step in and convert them. Why do you exist, if your tasks can be done by us?

I exist within you. I cannot choose a side, but I can offer my support to those who seek it. There is a great difference between those whom I deem good and those who deem me good. My fairness means you can reach me. Evil cannot. Men are not good nor evil. Thus, men can reach me, not goodness or evil. Yet, without men I cannot reach goodness or evil either. Thus I send myself, on both sides.

The god sacrifices himself by choosing a side, at the end a dialogue between all avataars.

Why did you choose?

For if I do not choose at the end, I lose my meaning. I am a God, but humanity is what makes me at the end of it all. Thus, it would be an absent God who remains neutral. I am not an absent God. It was necessary for me to choose, for me to let go of the divinity which comes with neutrality. If everything is neutral, it will never change. This universe is destined to die. All living things are, thus if I do not die, then I am not living. Granted, I am beyond these things, but that which a man considers to be living within me must die for it to be alive in the first place. Now, there are causes to death, and if I were to die at the hands of evil, I would commit a disservice to myself and to others. It is imperative I die at the hands of a good man, for only he considers me to be alive in the first place. In this way, he gives me my life and takes it away. For what reasons are good to kill me? Any reason, as it frees me. Eventually, everything must end.

I imagine a story where a God on earth, goes from fairness to taking sides. He goes from choosing no side to choosing one.