I was watching an interesting movie right now when I had a revelation. Well, not a revelation exactly, but something that makes me understand things better.
In the movie, this chap, in a moment of difficulty and confusion, goes to the chapel and talks to God. I am never able to understand these actions. I mean, I have always believed that belief in God, by the majority of people around us, is important for life to run sanely. The idea that there's someone watching you all the time or that you'll have to pay for your deeds ensures that a lot less people commit crimes or just be plain selfish all the time than what would be the case if everyone was an atheist. It requires intelligence, or plain laziness, to know that there is no God and still keep oneself from committing crimes.But it still is difficult for me to understand how someone can have such blind faith in an abstract concept like God.
So, coming back to this chap. He was in a situation that I find myself in a lot. To cope with it he went and spoke to a stone idol. And whenever I find myself in situations like these, I invariably feel the need to talk to someone too. But in my case this 'someone' ends up being one of my close friends.
Just as a lot of people have utmost faith in their God, I have an unreasonable belief in my friends' ability to listen to me, understand me and forgive me.
I don't consider my friends infallible of course, but one needs to be flawed to understand someone else's flaws. God, assuming there is one, can't win against my friends in that department.
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2 comments:
It's an interesting thought, that people need to be flawed to understand another person's flaws, that people have to be imperfect to forgive imperfections. Perhaps true too, albeit my guess is that those who have their ultimate faith in the unseen Almighty would argue that humans don't always understand others flaws despite being flawed themselves, and God, in their belief, still can, because he's God, not human.
Just saying.
Well, the fact that these people are gullible enough to have their ultimate faith in the unseen renders their argument rather pointless.
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