CLAP YOUR HANDS IF YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES AND TINKERBELL WON'T DIE
Last year the History
Channel’s series ‘The Bible’ set
cable TV records. As should have been
expected, this year will be the year of religious fervor at the box
office. Movies to be released include Son of God, Noah, Heaven is for Real, Exodus
and Mary, Mother of Christ. These
exaggerated fictional renderings of the old Bible stories are going to result
in a dramatic ‘Back to Jesus’ movement among the fundamentalist that will culminate
in renewed religious mania against anything liberal.
In all cases these movies
will rewrite biblical history and attempt to make these stories emotionally believable for modern time.
I am constantly seeing the
advertisement of Noah on cable TV. The
movie features Russell Crowe as Noah who looks more like Mad Max than a six
hundred year old man. (The movie fails to address the issue that
Noah was suppose to be over five hundred years old, and that it took him and his
sons one hundred years to build this ark…)
The story is too ridiculous
to even comment on. Talk about biblical
fantasies, this story surpasses the ridiculous.
Years ago I read Mark Twain’s
Letters from the Earth that primarily
deals with the story of Noah. It was the first time that I had read anything the questioned the validity of the Bible.
Twain begins with Satan being banished from heaven for a day for being surly with God. To kill time Satan comes down to earth to view
the strange life forms God had created on this speck in the cosmos. He writes letters back to heaven to
describe the ridiculous creation called man.
Twain gets a little carried away with some parts of the story and is mistaken
on his cosmology, but when you consider the time and attitudes of his day he
was a Renaissance man.
It is eleven short chapters
and worth a read.
the Ol'Buzzard
