“There is something i
would like to understand. And i don’t think anyone can explain it...There is
your life...You begin it feeling its something so precious and so rare...So
beautiful that its like a sacred treasure. Now its over and it does not make
any difference to anyone. And it is not that they are indifferent, its just
that they don’t know...They don’t know what it means, the treasure of mine”
We The Living
The Cairo court sentenced 7 people to death for their role
in producing “Innocence of Muslims”; a crappy video that mocks the prophet.
Well i did see that video and judging by the acting and production values if
anyone had the first right to punish them its the collective short film
industry.
Some say that the death sentence is a symbolic one. That all
convicts are outside Egypt and safe. Though i suspect that life would be safe
for anyone with a death sentence issued against his name. Whether some true
devotee of the god would take the matters in his own hand, only time will tell.
But even if we assume that hypothetical safety; there is something terribly
wrong with this episode. Something that really annoys me. Something that
makes me uneasy.
To take away a life, to eradicate an existence; just because
someone made fun of somebody. Even the wildest stretch of logic would be light
years away from explaining it. And adding piss to the shit, all this is
apparently done in the name of god.
So let me get this straight. This guy called god is so touchy
and has such a fragile ego that he would kill someone who makes fun of him.
Well i would rather not have to see his face again. Not only is he a jerk and a
bully he is a psychopath as well.
I mean how tough it is to ignore a comment from someone who
is also weaker than you. For crying out loud have some magnanimity. As kids we
had our share of scrapes. Sometime we got our ass kicked while sometimes we kicked others'. The one who got beaten was obviously pissed off and shouted and abused
the other. But even as small kids we were big enough to let the
comments pass. Even as 14 year olds we were intelligent enough to understand
that we have proved our strength. That there is no point in pushing it further. Well
Mr god is present from the beginning of time. How dumb would he have to be to
not get a thing as simple as this?
I believe that god is an extension of a child’s
superhero. As a kid grows up he finds the world surrounding him far too complex
for superman and co. to live in and so he invents god. God—a grown up’s
superhero. Just as the superhero provided comfort and adventure to the kid the
god provides comfort and calm to the grown up.
But what have we done to our super hero. We have corrupted the 'man from beyond'. We have dragged him to levels so low that almost all of us seem to be a better choice than him.
The
writers suck big time. We need better gods. We deserve better gods. Fire the stupid
writers. Hire fresh blood. Some of the new volumes have been really terrible.
Rewrite them. The public won’t mind. Any leap of imagination can be taken; any
number of facts can be ignored if it can strengthen our super hero. Because superheroes
are someone we look up to. Someone we aspire to be ; but if our gods are worse off than we are; i shudder to think
of what lies ahead.
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