It is easy to see how a single government might dominate a planet.  Modern communications have recently made it quite plausible.  But can a single government dominate an entire Galaxy?  Probably not.  The transportation of large numbers of imperial storm troopers across the Galaxy would be an exercise in futility because of the time it takes to travel in deep space.  Sci-fi enthusiasts dream of traveling at light speed, but even if this were possible, it is not workable, because a spaceship would undoubtedly blow up even upon the slightest impact with a dust particle.  Like overdriving your headlights at night, going light speed overdrives radar, and so you cannot see obstacles until it is too late.  To travel safely, one must travel slowly.  In a Galaxy 100,000 light years across, travel is necessarily very slow.

     Besides the travel complications, communications infrastructures will forever be too weak to sustain a Galactic Empire.  Interstellar communications, even when traveling at the speed of light, take years to reach even the closest neighboring star.  To permeate the entire Galaxy, a communication must travel 100,000 light years.  Imagine paying your taxes electronically when they can't even receive your electronic payment for 100,000 years.  If you skipped town, or skipped planet as it were, the taxman would be none the wiser.  You would have 100,000 years of free tax evasion.  Now imagine a whole planet defaulting on its taxes, or rebelling against a Galactic Empire.  By the time the imperial storm troopers arrived, the reasons for the conflict would have become superfluous.  It's analogous to the American Revolution if the Atlantic Ocean were several thousand times wider than it is.  By the time the first British redcoat musketeers arrived to subdue the rebellious colonies, America would have already discovered the A-Bomb and become Britain's ally in World War II.  Therefore, a Galactic Empire is not workable because of travel and communications limitations in interstellar space.  Alien governments are probably limited to single solar systems or at best neighborhoods of solar systems.

     No government, therefore, will ever establish complete control of the Galaxy.  Consequently, there will always be wars between rival nations of intelligent species as they compete for various ecological niches.  Also, rogues and rebels will forever thrive throughout the Galaxy, because they cannot be apprehended when communication infrastructures between law enforcement agencies are weak.  In a world where social security numbers, driver's licenses, references, and background checks take light years to verify, no interplanetary government can ever become the all-seeing eye that is stamped on the back of the $1 dollar bill.  Big Brother might achieve omniscience here on earth, but cannot do so across an entire Galaxy.

     But the sci-fi enthusiast might contest, what about warp zones via worm holes?  Couldn't they improve communications infrastructure?  Worm holes are one of the most excitable subjects in science fiction.  Based on a hypothetical break in the space-time continuum, they are more fiction than science, because they presuppose that it is somehow possible to go into a black hole and come out of a white hole intact – a fantasy that is rendered impossible by the simple fact that the immense gravity of a black hole destroys everything it sucks in. 

     So there is no Galactic Empire.  There is no space alien God who can govern the Galaxy with absolute power.  There is no Almighty God.  Rather, there is eternal war among the gods.

From the Mouth of the Gods

     The gods themselves confirm that they are creatures given over to violence.  The Bhagavad Gita is among the most sacred holy texts of the Hindu faith.  It allegedly contains the divine words of the god Krishna, who is the most widely loved of all the Hindu gods.  The text opens with a battle scene in which the disciple of Krishna, whose name is Arjuna, carries a battle banner with the image of an ape upon it.[1]  This is quite fitting, for if the Bhagavad Gita is truly extraterrestrially or "divinely" inspired, then perhaps the god Krishna was dropping a hint that we are descended from apes.  In this opening scene, the god Krishna explains the moral justification for killing people in warfare – a practice that Krishna enthusiastically endorsed. 

     From the very beginning, the Bhagavad Gita makes clear that Krishna is a god of war.  Our first picture of Krishna places him at the head of an army, in a chariot, and blowing a battle trumpet.[2]  Arjuna beseeches Krishna as a god of war, asking him, "Guide my chariot, immortal Krishna, and position it between the two armies."[3]  Krishna immediately heeds his disciples' request, driving his chariot into the fray.[4]  Then Arjuna has a moment of doubt.  He says,

I don't see anything good coming from killing my own brethren in battle… how does their death accomplish anything for us?... What sort of evil spirit has possessed us to kill our own people in battle for the sake of an earthly kingdom?[5] 

Krishna responds,

Strong people don't feel remorse like that, Arjuna.  It wins you neither heaven nor earth.[6] 

Krishna then explains that warfare is morally permissible, because the people you kill in war will just get reincarnated anyway, so,

Start the battle, great warrior… for this war opens the gates of heaven.  Blessed are the warriors who fight this war, but if you don't fight, if you forsake your obligation and your honor, then you will fall into sin…[7]  I came here to kill these people… so get up, win the victory, and vanquish your foe…[8]  

Clearly, Krishna is a god of war.  Indeed, he was a Hindu jihadist! 

     Theologians like Gandhi later reinterpreted Krishna's words into a message of non-violence, but if you read the Gita for what it actually says, it is anything but non-violent.  Gandhi's pacifist tendencies actually did not come from Hinduism at all, but from his Jainist upbringing.  Jainism is a different religion.  Interestingly, its symbol is the swastika.  In such manner the gods devise ways to mock humanity through the centuries, for they gave the swastika as a symbol for non-violence, then gave the violent Nazi movement the same symbol.

     Before Krishna, the Hindus worshipped a different system of deities, chief of whom was a violent god named Indra.  Indra was believed to have slain the primordial monster and created the world from its blood and guts, much the same way the Babylonian god Marduk allegedly did as recorded in Enuma Elish.  He is called "conquering Indra,"[9] "strong jaws,"[10] "thunder-armed,"[11] "celebrated warrior,"[12] "all conquering,"[13] "the plunderer in the battles of warriors," and he is invoked "to conquer all our enemies in battle,"[14] and to make us wealthy by "bringing the plunder" to us, and he rides war horses "daring to grab the booty."[15]  It is said of Indra, "Choked by your hand, your enemies were slain, and they lie stabbed and gory in the abyss of death."[16]  He is also said to be "angry in spirit,"[17] and armies "cannot win without his help."[18]  Indra is also repeatedly associated with the consumption of a narcotic herb called Soma that brings "wild delight" and helps him kill the dragon.[19]  Indra is said to lead an army of 159,000.  He has overthrown the regimes of 20 kings, destroyed 99 castles, razed 7 forts, butchered 99 cloud demons, and he has killed Ahi, Rauhina, Vyamsa, Dasas, and the Dasyus.[20]

     Two other Vedic gods, Varuna and Agni, are also gods of war.  Called "Lord of the warrior's strength," Varuna is associated with chariots.[21]  Of Agni, it is said he "kills many in war by the hands of few,"[22] and, "he butchers demons like an axe,"[23] and puts on "a suit of armor for war."[24] 

Sell Your Clothes and Buy a Weapon

     In terms of shear violence, Jesus Christ is hard pressed to follow this act.  Yet the same Jesus who said "Turn the other cheek"[25] also said "If you don't own a weapon, sell your clothes and buy one."[26]  He said this in the context of going on a journey,

Jesus said, "Take nothing for the journey except a big stick.  No paper, no food, and no money in your bag.  Wear sandals, and don't take a change of clothes"… And when the Apostles returned he asked, "Did you lack anything?"  "No," they replied.  Jesus continued, "Next time, if you don't own a weapon, sell your clothes and buy one."[27]

This squares with what Hippolytus said about the Essenes,

When the Essenes go on a journey, they carry nothing but weapons.[28]

The seemingly contradictory sayings of "turn the other cheek" and "carry a weapon" are actually part of a clever and very natural survival strategy.  One may observe certain animals in the wild, such as bears, bull moose, and wildcats; although they are quite powerful and well endowed with natural weaponry, they tend to stay away from potentially hostile creatures.  When a human walks into their territory, they "turn the other cheek," so to speak, because they leave and go hide somewhere else.  They do not fight merely out of pride, nor do they fight for the wealth of resources on the land from which they are driven.  However, they will fight when personally threatened, and they will win, because nature has armed them well with fangs, claws, and horns.  Jesus Christ apparently recommended this survival strategy, for he instructed his followers never to fight for pride, nor to carry any wealth, yet to still have a weapon.  This doctrine is for the purpose of survival, according to the universal law of survival of the fittest, for when you avoid fights yet still maintain formidable weaponry, then you are the most likely of anyone to survive.

Allahu Akbar

     Mohamed conquered in the name of a god called Allah, from whom he received revelations.  The Islamic holy book, the Qur'an, contains these revelations.  The following quotes from the Qur'an reveal Allah's hawkish nature: 

I (Allah) will terrorize the infidel.  Smite them on the back of the neck and cut off their fingertips…[29] If they rebel, seize them and kill them wherever you find them.[30] 

Yet the Qur'an sounds more peaceable elsewhere:

Fight for Allah's cause against those who fight you, but don't transgress the limits…[31] Terrorize the enemy… but if the enemy is peaceably inclined, then you should also be peaceably inclined.[32] 

Far from being a blind ideology of hate, as some depict it, Islamic violence has a limit.  A wise god will chose his battles carefully, for he cannot fight everyone all the time.  Therefore, Allah gives the command to "fight those who fight you," not necessarily fight everyone.  This is indeed what we should expect from a god who understands survival of the fittest, for everyone must fight to survive, or at least terrorize the enemy enough to dissuade an attack.  Yet when there is no threat, there is no reason to jeopardize your own survival by picking a fight – hence the command to be "peaceably inclined."  Allah's philosophy on war and terrorism is entirely consistent with what we should expect from a space alien god who lives according to the law of survival of the fittest. 

     That Allah is a real god is demonstrated by the large number of marvelous numerological oddities regarding the number 19 in the Qur'an, and this fact is regularly used by Islamic evangelists to persuade would-be converts.  However, the number 19 does not prove Allah is God Almighty; rather, it only proves Allah is associated with the moon, for 19 is the ancient occult number of the moon, because it takes 19 years for the lunar calendar to complete a cycle of synchronization with the solar calendar.  Allah was the name of the Arab moon god prior to Mohamed, and Islam still sports the crescent moon as a symbol of the faith.  Insofar as there exists considerable evidence for intelligent habitation of the moon,[33] the real existence of Allah as a space alien god is quite plausible.

Buddha

     Yet wasn't at least Buddha a god of peace?  Actually, the earliest school of Buddhists, the Theravadin school, considered him to be a mortal man, who was "enlightened" over and above the gods.  Buddha, being a mere mortal descended from apes, presented his own enlightenment as something that was greater than the gods.  He paid for this with his life.

     Buddha died of a digestive problem.[34]  Interestingly, four bad guys of the Bible also died the same way.  Herod the Great tried to kill the baby Jesus, and his reward was worms at both ends – his breath stank and his penis had worms living in it.  Antiochus IV smeared pigs' blood all over the Jewish sanctuary and demanded people worship him as God.  He got a bad case of intestinal worms and died confessing, "It is not right for mortals to assume the titles of gods."  King Jehoram murdered his brothers, and so the Prophet cursed him, and he died of intestinal worms.  Another Herod killed Saint James the Tall, and was struck with intestinal worms.[35]  Eusebius' history recorded ten years of persecution, which was the most grievous holocaust the Roman Empire ever inflicted against Christians.  At the end of it, the emperor who perpetrated it died of intestinal worms.  On one occasion, the emperor had sent pimps to abduct a Christian woman, so that he could rape her.  Like Herod, the worms eventually swarmed inside his penis.[36] 

          Therefore, the gods exact vengeance upon presumptuous humans who attempt to usurp their authority.  Intestinal worms is one signature of their vengeance.