23:28 Jan 18 2007
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Believing in something.
Living for something.
Illusions to get us through the days.
After finishing the book The DA Vinci code a while ago, I just got a chance to see the movie. I was kind of impressed with certain parts of the movie even though they left out a lot of situations that were in the book. After seeing certain things on film, questions and wonder began to circle in my mind. There is one part of the movie that really makes me think. Question things. Which sometimes isn't bad to do.
The most important part to me was this conversation between Langdon and Sophie:
Sophie: What would you do, Robert?
Robert: OK, maybe there is no proof. Maybe the grail is lost forever, but, Sophie, the only thing that matters is what you believe. History shows us Jesus was an extraordinary man, a human inspiration. That's it. That's all the evidence has ever proved, but when I was a boy… when I was down in that well Teabing told you about, I thought I was going to die, Sophie. What I did… I prayed. I prayed to Jesus to keep me alive so I could see my parents again, so I could go to school again, so I could play with my dog. Sometimes I wonder if I wasn't alone down there. Why does it have to be human or divine? Maybe human is divine. Why couldn't Jesus have been a father and still been capable of all those miracles?
Sophie: Like turning water into wine?
Robert: Well, who knows? His blood is your blood. Maybe that junkie in the park will never touch a drug again. Maybe you healed my phobia with your hands.
Sophie: And maybe you're a knight in the grail quest.
Robert: Well, here’s the question. You're a living descendant of Jesus Christ. Would she destroy faith, or would she renew it? So, I say again, what matters is what you believe.
Sophie: Thank you for bringing me here, for letting Him choose you, Sir Robert.
It put a lot of questions and answers together for me.
I think people need to believe in something. It doesn't matter what it is. Faith, religion, a higher power, so on and so forth. I know some people are going to bring up the atheist point but really, even if you believe in nothing at all, you still believe.
Believing makes some of us comfortable at night. It shields us away from the demons and bad things that can take place through the times we are on earth. It gives comfort when death has come an stolen the soul of a loved one. Or even when life is looking low and you have nothing more but then to believe. How many people find "God" or the "good word" when they are behind a set of iron bars because of something they did. Believing gives them something to do. Believing gives them something to look forward to. Believing can also erase the burden they keep tucked inside. Everyone has a right to believe no matter what they believe in. It is a freedom we were given. The ability to disagree is also handed to us.
Christians (some not all) bashed and boycotted a movie that give some people comfort. Why I do not understand. If they can put their faith into a book with events that can raise questions to some and none to other's, then what harm is there in people who do not share their same beliefs doing the same thing.
Would or is it so wrong to want to believe that maybe something divine was in an ordinary human body. That maybe each living, breathing human being can be something so utterly divine we couldn't even fathom it? That maybe just the calloused, rough, cracked working hands of a typical person could cure the problems of someone by just laying their hands upon their body. That maybe there is nothing more divine then being able to live. That in order to be "godly" you can just be ordinary. Would people worship him any other way if it did come about that he was born from actual conception and the womb of an ordinary woman. Would that be so wrong? Maybe the thought of that one person who carries a bloodline so rare and so important, gives certain people comfort. Comfort in knowing that maybe walking amongst them could be someone that holds the inner power of a long royal history.
I asked the question of myself. Would I destroy faith or would I renew it?
Now, I am no means a religious person. I am very spiritual and believe in many things. But why destroy something that so many people need in their life. No matter what they believe in. Faith isn't narrowed down to one religion, one belief, or even one kind of book. Faith travels within a wide range of people. It doesn't care of our race, religion, or sexual preference. It is something WE as individuals can believe in. Something that we can be proud of.
To be ourselves can be even more divine then what we ever realized. Miracles can come from living breathing human beings, not everything always comes from a higher power or alternate being.
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