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FCUK YOU, MTRCB
16 May 2006 10:39 pmWARNING: INCOHERENTNESS AND ALL-AROUND DISORGANIZED ESSAY-WRITING ABOUNDS.
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THE MTRCB IS SO FCUKED UP: http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryId=38904
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The Da Vinci Code's first incarnation was a novel. A novel. Which means it's fictitious. Its primary objective is to entertain. What I don't understand is why people can't get that fact through their thick heads.
Anyone, anyone who read the novel thoroughly would realize that it says nothing inflammatory against the Church. Nothing. Nil. Zilch. Nada.
If you're as good a Catholic as they come, you shouldn't be bothered by things like these. If your faith in the Church is so fragile that your belief was shaken after reading this novel, then you might as well stop being Catholic.
If Jesus did happen to have a child by Mary Magdalene, well, so what? Would it change the fact that He's one of the most influential figures in history? Would it change the fact that His primary message was "Love your neighbor as you love yourself"?
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The Church likens itself to a shepherd tending to sheep. It is an imperfect shepherd, an institution filled with fallible men, but a shepherd nonetheless. However, we shouldn't just follow our shepherd blindly, because that's just stupid. Blind faith would lead to controversies, like the ones regarding The Da Vinci Code - Ohmigod the Church was put in a bad light, therefore the author is evil! vs. Ohmigod the Church is put in a bad light, therefore the Church must be evil! - which is just ridiculous.
We should be the kind of sheep that knows what it's getting into, who knows the kind of shepherd it follows, who knows what dangers it might come across, and still follows the imperfect shepherd anyway. Because that's the way faith should be: believing in something that you know couldn't be proven.
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THE MTRCB IS SO FCUKED UP: http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryId=38904
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The Da Vinci Code's first incarnation was a novel. A novel. Which means it's fictitious. Its primary objective is to entertain. What I don't understand is why people can't get that fact through their thick heads.
Anyone, anyone who read the novel thoroughly would realize that it says nothing inflammatory against the Church. Nothing. Nil. Zilch. Nada.
If you're as good a Catholic as they come, you shouldn't be bothered by things like these. If your faith in the Church is so fragile that your belief was shaken after reading this novel, then you might as well stop being Catholic.
If Jesus did happen to have a child by Mary Magdalene, well, so what? Would it change the fact that He's one of the most influential figures in history? Would it change the fact that His primary message was "Love your neighbor as you love yourself"?
***
The Church likens itself to a shepherd tending to sheep. It is an imperfect shepherd, an institution filled with fallible men, but a shepherd nonetheless. However, we shouldn't just follow our shepherd blindly, because that's just stupid. Blind faith would lead to controversies, like the ones regarding The Da Vinci Code - Ohmigod the Church was put in a bad light, therefore the author is evil! vs. Ohmigod the Church is put in a bad light, therefore the Church must be evil! - which is just ridiculous.
We should be the kind of sheep that knows what it's getting into, who knows the kind of shepherd it follows, who knows what dangers it might come across, and still follows the imperfect shepherd anyway. Because that's the way faith should be: believing in something that you know couldn't be proven.
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