Theomachist Manifesto

Spanning across all of human history, and into human prehistory, our world has been controlled by a race of powerful divine immortal beings known as gods (or deities). There are numerous distinct pantheons of deities, each with it's own corresponding civilization of mortals who either currently or formerly worshiped them.

The gods frequently interbreed with mortals to produce beings known as Demigod who act as their agents on earth.

In earlier epochs of history, we find almost everywhere the gods ruling and being worshiped openly; sending down storms, plagues, and demons to destroy those who defied their will. During this time the Demigods ruled as nobility and kings; the Pharaoh's descend from Ra, Germanic chiefs descended from Odin, the Japanese Imperial Family descended from Amaterasu and so forth.

By virtue of their power the gods were able to define good as obedience and reverence to their rule. They believed, and persuaded others to believe that a hierarchical society with them placed firmly and unassailably at the top was the natural order of things. Even to suggest otherwise, they implied, was to shake the foundations of morality.

Where once the power of the deities was omnipresent, today that power is invisible. The ancient gods are not widely worshiped or even acknowledged, but they continue to exist. They continue to control the forces of nature and to dictate the destination of human souls in the hereafter. They have also continued to produce demigods and use these demigods as their agents.