Day 140
Todays word use it wisely! Blatteration. Blustering nonsense, senseless roar
We watched a programme on BBC4 last evening from 2006 about the De Vinci Code. What a fuss was being made about it and the damage it could do to the Catholic Church in particular, discussed by academics and reporters alike. I remember when it came out. I read it and it was an entertaining yarn but not for a moment did I even consider any of it’s theories to be anything but nonsense, possibly blatteration! One interviewee even put forward that this was a book that would still be talked about in a hundred years! Like so many things that capture the headlines at any one time it has already faded from our memories and it faded pretty quickly even with the movie two years after. It brought home to me how unimportant all this mumbo jumbo is. Religion is based on legend and stories that have no basis in reality and were written hundred of years after the supposed events. How so many millions are duped by such rubbish is beyond my understanding. The tenets of many religions have good intentions but are simply rules for life, nothing more, you won’t get into heaven or the grace of God because logic dictates there is no such being!The thing is none of it matters and we will all die. What happens after is irrelevant. I will not reiterate my usual stuff about power and money and a the damage done over the centuries. Faith in an unproven and frankly nonsensical God of any type is a waste of time and while it might bring comfort to some it’s is surely an idea that is no longer relevant in todays world. It still causes grief and trouble all over the world and the prejudice and hate it engenders does more harm than good.
THe thunder clapped but little happened where I live. A few sparse drops of rain that was of no use to the parched ground. Will it break later?
Stay well
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