The Chromatism Dispute

Matthew 6:10
May your Kingdom come soon. May your will be
done on earth, as it is in heaven.

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Try to have someone prove what their favorite color is in a logical argument. They must give evidence, present facts, a background, any influences and finally justifications. If any question were to arise as to whether they favor another color besides the one presented, even partially, then they were actually lying during the presentation of their argument. If the majority surrounding them is in agreement that there is a more highly favored color among them, then this particular group should form a faction, one of their callings or tenets to be to condemn anyone favoring another color.

Then we shall organize it not into a council or assembly of like-minded people, not a group of artisans under a common cause but a religion. We will call this new religion Monochromatism, where the god of this religion would obviously command “Thou shall have no other colors before me.” Now the artists of the world can only use the colors prescribed and accepted as their new faith.

Well then the schisms begin because members have become apostates and prefer different colors or more than one color which of course is heresy and blasphemous. This will be called the Great Pigmentation, when the people become apostates, breaking away from the one true trinity of Black, White and Grey.

Through the natural progression of time many such schisms will occur beginning with Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue and Violet.

The multitudes of hues and shades will schism for reasons of a divinely inspired nature which no one else can understand but them because they were especially chosen by the most recent color. These newest sects create Magenta, Cyan, Brown, Fuchsia, and Pink.

And now because all factions desire to be the truest color inevitably a series of wars ensue over the next few millennia to destroy the others colors and secure their power, all the while more factions are created and alliances are formed. Despite how well these colors complement each other, or how much they contrast, the varying tones of such a Lightness-Darkness Axis are easily soluble.

For what purpose, and to what end are these battles fought? What we end up with is a massive spectrum of colors and values that make up everything we see. We are all part of what makes up the world in which we live. No one god is somehow superior, and no one faith is superior. How is anything else any different? By bloodshed? Coercion? Divine wrath and holy wars do not make one color perfect, to be held as sovereign over all others. They are all parts of the whole.

The Chromatism Dispute

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