Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Decoding Angels And Demons - June 15

I hate myself for doing this. Each time, after some years, I will be criticizing my own work, for the deficiency of information or shallowness of the analysis. And I know very well that I will. But looking from another way, wouldn't it show how much have I been progressing? It's really a tormenting angels and demons to me.

How long should I pretend that I have not already fallen in love with the story? A nice dialogue anyway. God, for as long as mankind remembers, is seen as a power, as an explanation to all the beautiful and magnificent creation that our eyes behold. And science, who works to explain and take the further attempt to prove scientifically the creation of God, is dubbed by God believers as demons. So which side should we represent ourselves? The one who explains the rainfall as Angel's tears to wash away our sins? or the one who indignantly explains with scientific discoveries and evidence of creation that has been in existence before us, before the birth of living things? Are we angels or demons?

Science does not create all discoveries that it had found. Nor attempts to recreation grant them the right to assume the power of god. The message is clear, science is just too young to understand god. Discovering how thunder works, after the first in billions of years ago, doesn't make science god. But, I would say that god is the most knowledgeable scientist. For it uses science to create things. We can prove things with science just because things itself are being created with science!

We've proven that blood carries oxygen throughout the body just because God creates it that way. We've proven that the world is not flat just because planets are round in shape. Issac Newton proved the existence of gravity just because God doesn't want us to keep afloat!

Man needs faith, hope and divine support. But man altogether also need science to understand god!

I always have a distasteful appetite towards how Chinese movie makers or novelists depicted taoism and tibetan "lama", especially in martial arts genre. Not trying to criticize Buddhism, but didn't they, in the past, confined their wisdom and teachings within the wall of Shaolin Temple and watched motionless on the sufferings and turbulence the people had to go through everyday? Didn't their falsified understanding of fate indirectly forced people who was gravely in need of divine support to search for alternative relievers?

The true demons are the one who attempt to reject god with science, and also the one who attempt to reinforce the existence of god by rejecting science. God has no laws and regulations for us. Religion, clearly encoded in the book, is just how man interpret god. Churches, temples and mosques are just institutions to reinforce the existence of God. Religious traditions and rules are just symbolic as to how much we worship god. It is the stupidity of us, not the god, for all the sufferings we have to witness everyday in the modern world. It is a war of vain and most despicable for human killings in the name of religion. It is the demon of us for forgetting god, the ultimate power, for not understanding why we are here, living then die, after the march of scientific progression all these while. By asking all these, I should have known by now, I've been very far, far away from God.

P/S: I used to ask my mum, why do we need to fill the red container (a religious tool for worshiping) with rice? My mum said, this is as an offering for god. And I will ask again, does God require us to offer rice? Did the people in the past, who had not had enough to eat, came out with rice for God? Now, we could use with just sand. And we have not being punished yet!

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