Damascus Revisited

He relied much on ‘expert’ opinions, doctrine and dogma as if assumptions and conjecture were an undeniable truth. ‘Settled science’ was accepted confidently, blind faith and an irrational rationalism; the hand-me-down punditry of pundits silenced his every doubt. Against all odds conspiracies conspired - unauthorized books read to him, even under his closed eyes. One night he flew awake like a bird departing a nest of fire. All that he had known as true were revealed as a script written by a Satan that did not exist. His hollow tree sprouted leaf, incredulity flourished, a belief system faltered, staggered dazed into a ditch he had labored upon for many a year. He became a heresy unto himself: the beloved of God.