Idiocy

Again the Philippines is undergoing turmoil over an issue so stupid I can't believe it. Namely, people want the film release of The Da Vinci Code blocked.

Now, everyone knows what my stand is: let the damn film show. Shit, fiction is fiction and while the author claims factuality he's been disproven so many times it's not funny. If people lose their faith because of something so silly, it's because their faiths were weak to begin with and they're probably better off culled so that they won't become weeds among the wheat.

So, to the PAAP, Senator Kit Tatad, Press Secretary Ed Ermita, and to the other idiots in Philippine society who'll make an issue of this you better shut up. Your noise is free publicity for the film at this point.

Shut up. You haven't even read the book.

Anthropomorphic God vs. Theomorphic Humanity

As I write this I am watching a documentary on National Geographic about the Revelation. What irked me about it was what a fundamentalist scholar they interviewed said as justification for his belief in literal reading of the Revelation. He said that God would not reveal his word in a manner that humans would have difficulty reading. In short, God states His will literall, as if to dumb it down to human levels.

Only there's one slight problem here. It is not God's duty to dumb down His Word. It is our job to strain ourselves to understand Him. He has no duty to dumb anything down, the burden of understanding is our not His since He is perfect. Therefore, he won't dumb down the Bible to a literal level, to do so would be to limit the message of the infinite into a finite literal reading.

The problem is that contemporary theologians think God is humanlike. Therefore they think God will do His best to be relevant to humans and that He'll dumb Himself down for us. Hence we have movies like "Oh God" and "Bruce Almighty" which make out God to be just like you and me. No, it is the other way around. Humans are created in God's image and likeness. We are God-like, not God human-like. It canonly be that way since God came first, hence He is the basis for our creation, not the other way around.

I'd hate to sound anti-fundamentalist and politically incorrect here. But that's just how I feel.