I was watching the movie “The Da Vinci Code” yesterday and something in that movie got me transfixed (if I might say so). Ironically it wasn’t the Holy Grail or the blood line of Jesus (I have seen the movie many times over in the past so that wasn’t a surprise.) I was trying to decide whom to side with. On one side we have Sir Robert Langdon, Sophie Neveu Saint-Clair (I hope I got the spelling right) and Sir Leigh Teabing, trying to unravel the secret of the Holy Grail to the world so that people do not live in the clouded realm of pseudo-spirituality that the church was trying to superimpose. And on the other hand were the Priory of Sion and the Church (Bishop Manuel Aringarosa) trying to protect the secret of the churches power on Earth.
The Comparison might seem quite contrary to the story line. As in the movie it is obvious that Robert Langdon and Leigh Teabing were definitely not on the same side and so is the case with the Priory and the Church. Be that as it may, there is a bigger cause that seems to bind and unwind these four and hence has been the reason behind my classification.
This cause is not very difficult to spot either. One group wanted to reveal this secret and the other wanted to conceal it.
The beauty in this reason is that, while the cause of one seems to be just but its consequences are devastating ,where as, the cause of the other cannot be justified but its consequences happen to be a necessity. Confused…??? Let me explain –
Revealing the secret to the world might seem to be the right thing to do, as the people deserve to know the truth behind their religion and the God they worship. On the other hand revealing this secret would send the world we know it today into chaos. If people come to know the divinity of their deity was a cover-up, it would devastate their faith and belief. And a man who has no belief has no hope and there is nothing more dangerous than a man without any hope. If one such person is so dangerous, imagine a whole nation of them (Christianity to this day still remains a religion with the maximum following).
Covering up the whole thing might not be a just way of doing things; but then, it shall help in maintaining the stability and entropy of the system. Wasn’t this the very reason that this lie was made up in the first place, so that people could stop fighting are unite under one banner namely – Christianity(The greatest good, is the good, for the greatest numbers).
It is believed that many have been murdered in order to protect this secret. But was it really worth the lives? Would it have really made a difference if the secret was revealed? It quite hard to answer that question in a definite ‘yes’ or ‘no’ but if we go by the history of human civilization I think it would not have made a difference. Equal number of people would have still died, either due to the fight between the Pegans and the Christians or by the anarchy that this might have caused. I believe it’s in the human nature to fight. It is this trait that was kept us this high in the evolutionary ladder.
So who do u think is justified? It is like a never ending riddle. Like an equation whose conclusions and assumption are the same. No amount of mathematical jugglery can either prove it or disprove it…….After all it’s just another Hollywood movie……or is it ?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment