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Why do bad things happen? From a religious point of view, it might be that God taught us what good was and handed us the world for us to make our own mistakes and learn by them. As some say, they happen to remind us what good is. Sometimes, to serve a greater good.
That is the story of Angels & Demons. There is so much more to that book than the action of a quest and policial pursuit. It is, about how far someone might go to prove something. To serve, in his/her perspective, what would be a greater good.
It is about religious fanatism and where it leads. As for how, things are taken to extremes. This book definitely proves the immense gap between church and God. Religion and God.
Men and God. I believe God is energy-God is an idea of life, something that provides answers to those questions that go beyond us. God is that inner force that teaches us to be better. That differentiates well from bad. Heaven from Hell.
God is not the church. God is not religion. Religions are just men’s interpretation of a supernatural force. And churches are the organization of men that hold the responsibility to carry the interpretation and belief, making books and leading their minds to see what their hearts wish were true. That’s why there are so different religions. Because everyone sees it differently. Muslims. Catholics. Christians. Protestants. Masons. Jews. They all seem to have facts that support what they believe is God. What they think God should be to mankind.
And where is God in this outline? Well, God comes from our need to believe. God comes from faith. Faith in a better world. Faith in a better life. Faith that there is something after death- something worthy enough to give the best of ourselves in Earth. God comes from WITHIN us.
That belief, that faith, that knowledge that religion and church provide us- are the ones that give us the supposedly right attitude towards life. They don’t provide us miracles- WE provide the miracles; we make them every time we believe so strongly in something. Every time we are determined to prove something-anything, we end up creating our own miracles, our own realities.
It is amazing how Dan Brown is able to show the same misinterpretation within the clergy man of the vows in the hopes of finding what happiness is for them even when the rules set by the church don’t allow them too. And then, proclaiming it a miracle. I am talking about the case of the book’s murdered Pope. He had a son through artificial insemination, therefore he was a virgin, so apparently, he kept his vow, and, ended up having a “miraculous” son. Well, no. The reason of the clergy’s vow of chastity is not only to imitate Jesus’ virginity but also, because priests are not supposed to have a family, since they would have less time to attend church matters. Having a child- a family- even as a virgin is clearly, unpermitted and unaccepted by the church. Besides, artificial insemination is church-condemned. It requires for men to masturbate. Furthermore, the Pope has a child, through a process that doesn’t support his ‘rules’ and declares it a miracle of God. Now, he was definitely setting a new definition for miracle.
We are so many times fooled. I mean, miracles are created by us, by our faith, by our desire to believe in a supernatural force and divinity.
What I mean, is that that is a clear example of how some people fill the gaps left by the church’s rules- by declaring false miracles to find and create proof for their mind. Common mistake.
“Where there is great passion and belief, there are always miracles”
WG