“It’s a literal hell on Earth”, Zina shivered, venting to her husband. “I mean, I’ve been around for a long time”.
“Since the times of Gilgamesh?”, Buddha smiled.
“More-less”, she nodded. “And I’ve seen violence, and cruelty, and ignorance, and madness, and evil”. Her face was dark. “Islam was always a great evil, but the Turks, they are probably its worst manifestation. The Assyrians were extremely cruel, but these, if anything, are taking the crown. Do you know what their version of a national pastime is? Impalement. They are out-doing each other, inventing more cruel ways to do it, for instance how to make the victim live longer. Their actions are turning them into such monsters, I had no alternative to throwing them all to hell. The problem is, this spiritual disease is spreading. I recently had to deal with a Wallachian ruler, Vlad Dracula, who not only adopted this pastime of the Turks, but elevated the practice to a whole new level. At one point he impaled twenty thousand people as a deterrent to the Turks. He was so obsessed with it, that when he was imprisoned by the Hungarians, in the dungeon he used to impale rats, birds and other small animals. Satan is really turning people into his own image there”, she cried. “They learn to be so cruel and evil, that nothing can be done to repair the damage. Their victims, traumatised as they may be, are quite easy for me to heal. The perpetrators of those evils, on the other hand, are so spiritually warped, that it is fortunate that there’s no shortage of space in hell, for it would be overflowing with those I dumped in there recently. It’s a tragedy, but it is also their choice. Each of them had the option to rather die than do evil. I have seen many who did just that, and such choices made them wonderful, regardless of the terrible suffering some of them went through”, she sighed.
“The Turks, they are abducting Christian children. They call it devshirme, a tribute in blood. The boys are trained to be an especially cruel infantry force for the empire, the Janissaries, or they are castrated and put to service in the harems. They are raised in Islam, taught to be cruel and evil. The eunuchs in the harems enforce cruel discipline upon the women, whipping their feet for disobedience or strangling them to death with a silken scarf when the order comes. When there’s a change of a Sultan, the new one usually ‘refreshes’ the harem, ordering all the girls to be murdered and the ‘fresh’ ones brought in. They treat living people like furniture”, she sobbed.
Lord Buddha embraced her. “Satan must be smiling at them, for they are creating the kind of a world and are being the kind of people he desires – warped, cruel and without God”.
“It’s interesting how they think they are all about God – Allah this, Allah that, they are constantly praying, bowing and other nonsense, while turning into Satan incarnate”, she noted. “I’m seriously traumatised, I need time off to heal from this”.
“What we need”, he nodded, “is to elevate this problem to the higher-ups”.
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“You are not the only Judge who is traumatised by the recent surge of cruelty and madness”, Lord Shiva comforted Lady Zina, kissing her hand. “But something needs to be done about this, as it is getting out of hand”, he nodded to himself. “We need a final punishment, and a deterrent”. He lifted a finger, and black lightning flashed. “I killed everybody in that hell where you’ve been putting the cruel and merciless bastards. And now…”, his sight turned inwards and a flash of gold went through the world. “Now a warning has been placed in that world. Treat others cruelly and mercilessly, become a subject of Satan, become an expression of his will in the world, and your fate is sealed. Eternal death, no mercy”, he nodded. “I modified that hell, as well. It is now destructive. We used to keep them there in case we found a way to rehabilitate them. I kept my eye on them there – there was no rehabilitation, no desire to do better and be better. Just resentment, evil, a desire for vengeance upon the Gods, and the only regret they had was for things not ending well for them. There is no place for that kind of beings in any world. They had their free will and they chose to be thus. Now God is manifesting His free will not to allow them to exist. Cleanup will eventually have to be done, but Earth is going to be a serious cleanup job in any case, so this doesn’t make much of a difference”, he grinned. “As for you, sweetheart, I am sorry you had to witness all that evil. This goes for all the other Judges as well. Let me make it up to you, at least somewhat”, he smiled and a golden light flashed, replacing their spiritual injuries and weariness with jewels of highest energy density, that would protect them from all similar damage in the future.
“Wow”, Zina mouthed silently.
“You really do get shit done”, Buddha grinned at Lord Shiva.
“Kindness and mercy are my first, second and third choices”, the Great Lord smiled back. “But when someone laughs at mercy, and thinks cruelty is their strength, I’m here to remind everyone that mercy is not here because I lack other options”, black fire flashed in his eyes.
“Submission to Satan is not a safe choice. It’s a death sentence. And I made that message ring loud and clear”.
“They are free to fuck around, but I am also free to make them find out”.