Comments on: Does the Divinci Code shatter faith?

By: Kaetie

Kaetie — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 12:19:17 +0000

I absolutely agree. Intellectualising about spirituality is like spending years in therapy. You never get anywhere. But for some, the majority perhaps, God can only be comprehended in human terms, and we shouldn’t forget that only a small minority of people right now are experiencing God directly. Which is what I’m enjoying!!!
Much love again, Kaetie

By: Nathan James

Nathan James — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 07:40:45 +0000

Dear Kaeti,

I hadn’t read the book, nor was I particularly interested. I think one of the huge stumbling blocks to understanding God is that we try to rationalise rather than experience God. We seem to need to explain everything. The other trouble is, when we try and explain God we can only do from our limited human capacity to communicate, and then only from a reference point we all share, thus we end up anthropomorphising God. Any attempt to describe either the ‘masculine or feminine’ aspects of God immediately draws us out of the experiential of God and into the rationalisation of God. I wish more people spent time experience God than explaining.

By: Kaetie

Kaetie — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 13:34:16 +0000

I found the Davinci code book very predictable and didn’t get past chapter 10. The film was good fun and exciting. Thought provoking too.

What I liked very much about the film was the subtle re-inclusion of the feminine aspect of the divine. The divine cannot be masculine, that is absurd. The divine is perhaps non-gender specific. But that is not how the divine has been presented to us. God is very much a HE in western and middle eastern culture. And this, in my view, causes an absolute imbalance towards the rational, scientific, focused, logical, and thus, science/athiesm is rampant.

Bringing back the feminine aspects of the divine - however that happens - into common consciousness can only be a good thing, right?

Love, Kaetie