Hi Elisabeth,
Thanks for the well written article. Very clear with a point to take home.
Man has lost sight of God. Man thinks he is God. That is one of the main
reasons we have numerous problems today.
Best wishes
Eustaquio
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:57:50 +0800, Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
My little girl is growing up. Lately she wants to go to bed with Teddy
and Mr Lion. She's insists that I cover them up with a blanket or
they'll freeze to death. If she wakes up in the middle of the night and
finds them uncovered, she lovingly puts the blanket on them. Somehow, I
don't know how, children work this out, she knows the reality of things.
In the morning, she invariably finds Teddy and Lion on the floor. She
doesn't go to pieces, she knows they are only stuffed animals and that
they don't have to be protected and nor will they have frozen to ice.
Somewhere inside us, the concept of Reality, Truth and Lies is coded
from a very young age.
Which brings me to a BBC documentary I was watching last night. A young
couple in Delhi give birth to a girl. The girl is born with a rare and
almost unheard of congenital defect, facial duplication. That is, she is
born with two faces.
The moment she is born, the parents and the family instinctively know
that this is a defect, a malformation, that the child will not survive.
The love and care they display for this child would tear through the
heart of any mother. There is one moment, when an aunt in all wisdom
tells the camera crew, if a brick fell from a woman's womb, the mother
would still love it. Despite all odds, this child survives the first 48
years. This being India, people start filing into their house. Soon the
parents and family are convinced that the reincarnation of a Goddess has
been delivered to them. And so now a lie, an unreality becomes the Truth.
How is it, that religion, the one wonder-drug of humanity, can make
people go against the most fundamental coding of reality and truth, and
make us embrace the lie? How does this work? Why does this work?
If we are to survive in the twenty-first century, we have to find that
basic coding which any child will display with the most astonishing
clarity and presence of mind. For in the very end, lies always cause us
pain.
(The child died at two months of heart failure).
selma
