(A transcript of today's "Cup O' Joe Report" blogcast)
Just in case you've been living under a rock for the last couple of days, the big movie this weekend was The DaVinci Code, which is based on the wildly popular work of fiction about the descendents of Jesus and the Church's attempts to cover that up. Many so-called "Christians" were up in arms over the movie and tried to convince people not to go, and for the most part they were completely ignored. But no worries: the fundamentalists have plenty of other lies to sell to their gullible and wilfully ignorant followers.
As some of you know, I'm not a particularly religious person myself. I was raised Catholic, and Catholicism tends to breed agnostics and atheists. Over time I've come to believe that, wherever our search for a greater understanding of the universe and our place in it leads us, organized religion is not the answer. Like any organization, the goal of an organized faith is to perpetuate itself, and that, in this observer's opinion, is an obstacle on the road to a greater truth.
The problem with faith is that our belief in the supernatural is shaped by our culture and our perceptions within that culture. And the problem with tradition is that, more often than not, they're based on nothing more than something someone pulled out of their butt however many years ago. The older it is, the more mysterious it sounds. The popularity of The DaVinci Code is proof that we still like to look for something extra-earthly about events, no matter how unbelievable they are. But to me, it's just exchanging one code for another, and the cycle of ignorance continues.
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