Erich Von Daniken - The Gold Of The Gods

7 - "IT"
creation. What does Professor D.L. Pieper of Stanford University say?
"Panic fear of a mistake is death to any form of progress Love of truth
is its letter of safe conduct."
Like the computer bits we find ourselves again in a unity. We are
parts, minute parts, of the IT, which will find their way back to the
infinite cosmological community. All theories, all philosophies torture
themselves with the questions "why" and "whence." "Knowledge,"
writes the theologian Professor Puccetti, "does not necessarily have to
be won on scientific paths and in fact no so-called religious truth of
importance has ever been arrived at in this way."
On the threshold of the third millennium of our era the world is split
into five great rival religions and thousands of fanatical sects.
With great certainty technology will enable us to establish
communications with alien intelligences in the cosmos.
How do we imagine them?
As Catholics? As Protestants? As Lutherans? As Mormons? As
Muslims? As Buddhists? As Hindus? As Greek Orthodox?
Shall we be looked on by an alien intelligence as mentally deficient
because we never switch on the light on Saturday? (Orthodox Jews.)
Because we do not eat pork? (Mohammedans and Jews.) Because we
look on skinny cows and fat rats as sacred? (Hindus and kindred
religions.) Or because we nailed our almighty God to the cross in
gruesome fashion?
I suspect that with the step into the interstellar third millennium the
end of terrestrial polytheism will inevitably come.
With the assumption that we are all parts of the mighty IT God no
longer has to be simultaneously good and bad in some, inconceivable
way; He is no longer responsible for sorrow and happiness, for ordeals