Archive for February, 2007
Doubting James Cameron or Being Cynical!
After Dan Brown, it is James Cameron turn now! Looks like whether Jesus Christ was really a virgin (no pun intended) or not is a serious query! Valid query isn’t it? If Jesus Christ is proven to be a human, then all the crap about God will be disproved; and if he isn’t a human, then what ‘was’ Jesus is a question that will cost more time and money of the likes of James Cameron.
Some said that Jesus Tomb story’s aim is to gain fame and money. Or that the story was all cooked up for TV money, or just to spoil the image of Christianity. Well, all this even before the ‘documentary’ was aired. Great! They call it belief! And when somebody tells you that earth was spherical, well how do you break the belief?
But then, may be James Cameron and his friend Simcha Jacobovici are wrong! More than the very topic what surprises me is – Why are we so rigid about our beliefs, especially when it comes to God, Religion or as in this case God’s son? May be as humans our biggest gift was not just ‘curiosity’ and the ‘mind to find answers’. There is this ever pervading thing about ourselves – doubt!
But why are so afraid of our own doubts and adamant about our beliefs?
I think humans need lot of guts to doubt. Someone was always tortured or ridiculed when he/she doubted that Earth isn’t flat or when he/she doubted that neither Sun nor Earth is the centre of universe. Today it is the same, though we other humans have evolved from physical torture to mental torture.
We call the doubters names, we think that gaining money by hook or crook is their intention! Common lets check our premises here – we all want money and make money! I wonder if James Cameron needs money – I think his family will live a luxurious life with the royalties of Terminator and Titanic (if royalties really exist for movies)!
All James Cameron and Simcha Jacobovici are trying to say is – “we present a case, and you try and solve it”! But who will do it? How will the most interested people want to solve this – through media isn’t it?
No wonder faith does miracles, but faith needs lot of reality checks otherwise there will be too many Jihads or too many torture chambers for the likes of Galileos, for their doubts!