2006
06 03 - The Da Vinci Code etc. There
is no doubt that a small set of books, has generated a so great and
many-sided reactions like the Dan Brawn’s Da Vinci Code. Since
its first publication, it generated a long chain of related books. Someone
to extend the Da Vinci conclusions, someone just to explain in a
different way the matter, or make some chapters more complete, and a
large amount against this publication. Now
that a movie has been taken from, the above situation is increased. In
particular by the detractors of the book. The
movie has a better penetration in the masses, because, especially in
some countries, readers are not so much. Moreover,
in despite the novel was a best seller, it is not an easy reading, and
many people have postponed to buy the book (or to know the story)
waiting for the movie. The
Christian Church is exposed in first person with a crowd of Vatican
experts, that are working hard to demonstrate that the supposed truths
in the novel are false. This
makes me think over a lot. The
emphasis around this novel is due to the fact that the hypothesis on
which it is developed, if true, can generate a dramatic crisis in the
Christian Church that is based, for a great part, on the opposite of
these hypothesis. These
ones are not new for the truth, but in the Da Vinci Code, for the first
time they have a so great diffusion, and moreover, Dan Brown says that
all the stuff in the novel is true and has a reference. What
I can ascertain, is that the Christian Church has put itself in trouble
far from the dawning. In
fact far from the dawning there are legends, there are murmurs about
unmentionable secrets that sometimes are unknown also by Popes!. Why
do I say that the Church put in trouble itself?. Take a look with me. As
we know the Catholicism is born from Judaism, better, from some Jewish
that followed Christ as the God’s Son, learned his teaching and then
spread it among other peoples. Here
there is a fundamental question that generates potential problems, and,
in fact, was a long time theme of discussion in Byzantium. How
to justify a God’s Son when God is the only one? Jesus
has not taken care to tell us about, there was no need to tell us
perhaps. What
makes me stunned, is that the question was kept in the most earthly
conception of “God’s Son”. The Bible says that we all are God’s
sons, without any difference. Therefore Jesus was a God’s son like all
the other people. To
declare itself like earthly son of God, can be interpreted in the sense
to define him as a person not enlightened, but driven by God itself.
Therefore not a prophet but a chosen one. Every move, every word comes
directly from God. Besides He is omnipresent and it is not strange that
He can do this. A
God, that in order to avoid every misunderstanding, speaks with the
mouth and the language of a man. If
this second interpretation will be chosen, everything will be easier for
the Church. No
mystery of the Trinity, this chosen one before to be chosen will have
the opportunity to be born like all the other men, to make his life like
every other person, and also to marry the Magdalene. In
this case she does not assume a particular and troubling meaning for the
Church because everything happens before the Christ will be chosen. So
no royal blood, “sang real”, Saint Graal. This
also explains better why Jesus waits until 30, no one knows why, to
start his work: this would be only because God decides that this moment
was the right one. This
does not belittle the meaning of the sacrifice on the crux, because God,
permeates the Chosen One, He feels His suffering like a man in front of
the other men, exactly like the Church says. Of
course, regarding the culture and the philosophy at that time, it was
more useful to choose the most popular solution about a God’s Son in
the merely sense of the phrase. On the other hand, a most mystical
interpretation less understandable by the common people will be more
useful for the Church!. Because
this will free the Church from making high philosophical interpretations
to explain certain happening, and using frequently, to do it, mysteries
to keep as true because they are “Faith Mysteries”. All
this just to follow the Da Vinci Code theme, in which we can discover
the real role of Mary Magdalene. But
spending some more thinking, we can find other “troubles” that the
Christian Church could avoid. One
of the first cases is the “Holy Book”. All
monotheist religions, and not only these ones, have an unambiguous,
clear text, directly
inspired by God. Just this. Someone
uses to say “I take this as a Gospel truth”. The problem is that
this assertion says the opposite of what is in our intention to say!. In
fact the Gospels that the Church bond to the Pentateuch (the Jewish
Torah) are all but not an unambiguous text!. First
among all the writers of the life and the teaching of Christ, the Church
has chosen four of them only. More,
it is embarrassing, I think, to have a set of text because this Chosen
One that God has spoken through, can not have a unique text of these
words!. And it is interesting to observe that the Chosen One itself does
not take care to ask someone to take note of his teaching for future
memory. As
I was saying I think it is embarrassing to exclude some of the text, and
take some others like the good ones: it makes me perplexed!. Also
because when sometimes some “revelations” coming from other texts
are diffused, the people was indifferent to this “revelations”. This
is a signal that the other texts do not contain strange matter. The
Judas’s Gospel is a recent publication. Reading this text we can see
that the most discussed apostle was not the traitor we all think.
Opposite he was a good collaborator of Christ and he worked in the way
that everything would have happen like Christ wanted. According
to me there is nothing in this that can change the substance of the
events, and I feel the Judas’s version to be better than the ordinary
Gospels, because it shows a Christ that is not like a passive character
of the happenings, but like the director of his own fate for the good of
the men. This
gives more value to his sacrifice on the crux. Jesus
was a simple man that spoke in a simple way to the people, and the
people understood him, the people was persuaded about the goodness of
his thoughts, and followed him every day in more and more. This because
of the freshness and the light that all this simplicity without
mysteries could generate. The
Church has lost this simplicity, from the beginning, and started
immediately to quibble about things, to interpret about faith questions,
and also chose what was right to read about the Christ’s message, from
what was not right, in spite of the fact that the writers were all his
disciples. Then
the Church added also things not directly taught by Christ, It had
introduced secrets and made dogmas. Probably,
the problem is not Dan Brown’s novel, but all this great construction
on the original message. Without
fear to fall, the Church has to simplify the theology, in order to
follow again not only the way of speaking of Christ but also his extreme
simplicity. In
this way probably, the Church can face up the loss of faith and
vocations. |