The Judge of all the Earth

There was a play I went to yesterday. One of the shorts was about a self-confessed god-fearing virtuous man, who worked in a job who exposed him to corruption yet he remained strong. In a momentary lapse, he fell to weakness and was overtempted by sin.

I liked the play because it portrayed both sides convincingly. The religious absolutist vs the 'liberal' who espoused the truth of human nature.

It's not a duality that you get to see established often. I have Views about religion, but the play danced through these conventions with ease and ended up sympathizing with the protag even though he represented that which usually makes me uneasy; blind morality, unswerving faith, the jazz.

I'm currently working on a play called Icarus, which is about the sun, obv. It's about how the sun affects us as people (see what I did there? I just made it sound about fifty times deeper than it actually is. Try this at home kids!)

More precisely it's about how we as a people... let me rephrase, how you or I as a person would react to a world-changing event such as a man-made solar eclipse that lasted for months.

What would allow for such power to be put into the right / wrong hands? Who gets the say? Who gets to take responsbility for the devastating effects to the ecology? To anthropology? Human psychology? What's to stop us from emulating Arthur C Clarke's Nightfall, where an entire planet goes insane because of fear of darkness?

Shall not the judge of all the earth do right?


Edit: Isaac Asimov, not Arthur C. Clarke, wrote Nightfall. Thank you Naoko.