More of the Irony

Tonight the NBC News national evening broadcast opened with a tease featuring two successive items: sleep disorders for a large number of Americans, and The DaVinci Code "backlash," what people are saying about the controversial film opening this Friday.

I couldn't help but think. People would sleep better if they simply had their full daily compliment of relationship, discovery, and accomplishment. That is, they knew people around them loved them, they saw events that were wonderful in whatever way they happened, and they did things that they were confident made the world a better place.

But in the Catholicist Nation, many people put themselves to bed at night with the following in their psyches: They firmly believe that no matter what people around them may say, they are not loved, indeed they may even be targets, by anyone from wild-eyed terrorists to a bitter spouse. Not quite relationship.

They witness horrific acts of violence of all types, and if they should be spared this for a day, they are sure to experience the breadth of deceit among people who have virtually pathological fears. Not quite discovery.

They work their rear ends off doing something, and many times they question what that exactly is. Sometimes they peer into their souls and see the disturbing motivation for their drudgery: to sustain a rank pride that keeps them pretending that they are just good enough. Not quite accomplishment.

No wonder people can't sleep.

They would though, if they walked with the One who is the very best friend a person could have, who has the power to display unfathomable beauties in even the most mundane areas of life, and who takes the greatest pleasure in the bountiful use of one's talents.

Yes, this One is Jesus Christ.

But see the irony is that the item right after the sleep disorder plug was the reason why "Jesus Christ" does nothing for these people.

It is because this Jesus is a different one--not the One Who is a Friend. The DaVinci Code Jesus is the ancient-married-Gnostic-weird-morose one who was after-all just some hifalutin religious guy. Nobody who can help you with your sleep, anyway.

What is worse is that the Catholic Jesus is the one showcased as the alternative to the DaVinci Code one, but he is just as destructive. Is the Catholic Jesus the same one as the one in the Bible? How could he be when he's really just a wafer? Or a pedophiliac priest? Or a limp dead guy on the Mark of Cain?

Or some guy on TV smugly trying to explain all this away? Well, the Catholicist pundits can get out of that well enough by now throwing all their attention to attacking the DaVinci Code Jesus. It's the perfect ruse.

The thing that tops the irony is at the close of the news broadcast, there was a plug for the Web feature "iVillage." It comprises a bunch of websites that NBC runs, and it closed with the logo: the words "NBC-Universal Digital Media" in a large circle with the peacock icon at one point on the circle.

"Universal."

Just the more common term for "Catholic."

What do people really want? Some thoughts.

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