Da Vinci Code

I read the novel by Dan Brown last year, on a plane to and from Sydney. Needless to say, it was a riveting page-turner.

Earlier today, I watched the celluloid adapation starring Tom Hanks, Ian McKellan and Audrey Tatou. There's only so much info a film can squeeze in, so I would have to say I enjoyed the paperback version much more (plus the couple behind me didn't know how to keep their mouth shut).

It's hard to separate Da Vinci Code from religion (a topic, if you recall, which I normally prefer to hold my tongue on).

From the Christian and Islamic perspectives, Jesus never married. He was miraculously brought into this world by Mary, who's a Virgin. In the Final days, Jesus, who has been sheltered by God since Cruxificion, will be sent down to earth to fight off the Devil and bring salvation to mankind. Uncanny isn't it, the similarites between the two oldest religions the world has ever known.

But I don't want to speculate who's probably right and who might have got it wrong. I prefer to cogitate on the thing that matters - faith (and perhaps spirituality).

There's a Creator for everything. That chair you're sitting on, that phone you pick up to speak to somebody thousands of miles away. The world was created by the Big Bang - which was created by a Creator.

At least that's what I believe.

If God has so much love, why then does He allow so much sufferings? Now that's a question I'll get answered when I meet my Maker.

Before that day comes, I prefer to keep a peace of mind and not get into a mental knot.

May you sleep in peace, too.