The stories of humanity?

There are stories of humanity. Of course there are individual stories, which are often very interesting. I think most of that comes from the fact that individual humans never fit a mold. They are complex, messy, unpredictable, and more. There are stories of tragedy and overcoming great odds and everything in between. These stories can be of individuals and even groups of people.

But that’s not the focus of this post. No, I’m talking about the stories of humanity, as in the whole of humanity. I wonder if these stories are less interesting. Or maybe we try to not talk about them because they are just too painful. Maybe those stories expose unpleasant things about humanity that we would rather not think about. If we did, we might feel compelled to have to do something. Often these stories are predictable. We’ve seen the story many times. In many ways, these are just repeat tellings of the same story — the only differences are the names and the situation. But what happens and the result are always the same.

How would you classify the stories of humanity? Often, whether we the want to admit it or not, the stories of humanity involve people willing to sacrifice everything, including others, for the sake of a false god — an idol. And the tragedy is that the idol never returns the favor. How could it? Idolatry at its core sees humans and everything else as disposable.

Often the stories of humanity involve great human effort and energy put into dehumanizing others and ultimately oneself, by trying to make human beings either…