We all keep secrets, don't we? This little thing that we're afraid to tell the people around us that we know or better yet, think it's going to hurt them. Last year, a certain book called "The Da Vinci Code" divulged an astounding secret that the Catholic Church has kept from its followers for centuries. A secret so powerful that if revealed, it would devastaste the very foundations of mankind. Now one may ask why the Church would do such thing, an institution that advocates truth and the fear and love of a greater power...the fear of a greater power...Why don't we relax, smoke and drink and think about the difference between lying between "regular" people and lying amongst powerful people. "Regular" people lie to cover something they've done that they know will hurt someone close to them or to obtain something that they want, that they know that they either don't deserve or that they can't obtain. Powerful people lie to raise their level of awareness above everyone else. It's about pride. It's about knowledge. It's about taking advantage of the little ones and have them carry the powerful on their poor, dilapitated backs. The fact that they know something that we don't, puts us several steps below them on the social ladder, and keeping that information from us, keeps us there.
But sometimes, I wonder: if that information was divulged to us, what would be our reaction? Would we be open-minded to accept the possibility that nothing is what it seems? Or would we be close-minded and see the truth that was just exposed as a lie or a blasphemy? Now I don't know how accurate Dan Brown is in his book, but one cannot deny that a lot of the research that he did have been proven and that the connection is not impossible. The day that the movie adaption of said book came out in theaters, riots broke out in different parts of the world as copies of the book were thrown into a bonfire, calling it a blasphemy, a written sin, a way of turning the faith against the Church. The way they should have worded it is a way for the Church, not the one that Jesus and His Father built, but the modern, pretentious, greedy, power-hungry one, to lose its power over its slaves. At my church, our priest dubbed Dan Brown as a "blasphemer" and a "renouncer of Jesus-Christ". Back in Haiti, each "fact" that was raised in the movie brought more outcry from the audience. This does not mean the audience is ignorant. This is just what the Church and the powers that be want: for their supporters and followers reject anything and everything that goes against what they've drilled into so many minds. This process is popularly known as brainwashing. What is frightening is that as smart and educated many can be, getting them to accept to accept a certain idea and have them live by it can be quiet successful.
They say "Ignorance is Bliss". I say "Ignorance is Weakness".
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