Mainstream Religion Thought Processes God Essay - 1,254 words

Sometimes it takes a different perspective for someone to see the reality of how things are handled, and Marquezs insights into the way "Mainstream Religion" has dragged God and Christianity through the mud to the point of non-recognition. This is illustrated by Pelayos and Elisenda's not even seeing the wings in the beginning. My end goal here is to bring out this wonderful storys points and compare them to mainstream religions fallacies. The description of the weather when the Angel is found very vividly paints a picture of the mood in Pelayos house that day. "The world had been sad since Tuesday. " Is the text, while Elisenda had been nursing a sick child that they feared might die. The sea and sky had come together in a foreboding leaden gray that squeezed all hope from anyone subjected to it. The sea itself, seen as a life giving, sustenance providing entity, has risen up to threaten a helpless child to Elisenda.


The crabs that provided food and retail value, are now a cause for the childs sickness. The neighbor woman even says the Angel must have been coming for the child. This shows how the thought processes were turning in reverse. Most of our mainstream churches seem to have their thought processes in reverse also.


We are of the "Janet Jackson" school of theology; "What have You done for me Lately?" This is not how the Bible teaches us to behave, but to serve God and one another in love, with understanding, knowing that we too were once the enemy of God, but through grace and love, adopted into His family. How can we condemn others and receive the love we are denying them. Marquez chooses his character very carefully. God the omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent being, cannot be portrayed as having been affected by the world without some feeling of blasphemy. An Angel on the other hand can be very old and still not carry the same connotation. This Angel projects the image of being alive throughout time, and also carrying the weight of fighting the worlds battles for much too long a time.


The lack of hair and teeth are evidence of battles fought to much dismay. I am reminded of the story in the book of Daniel: Suddenly, a hand touched me, which made me tremble on my knees and on the palms of my hands. And he said to me, "O Daniel, man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak to you, and stand upright, for I have now been sent to you. " While he was speaking this word to me, I stood trembling. Then he said to me, "Do not fear, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand, and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard; and I have come because of your words. But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days; and behold, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, for I had been left alone there with the kings of Persia. (Dan 10: 10 - 13 NKJV) How many of these battles must the Angel have been involved with throughout the ages?


How much this worlds pain can an Angel possibly carry, before it collapses to the ground, in disheveled weariness? The text even states "His huge buzzard wings, dirty and half-plucked, were forever entangled in the mud. " What a beautiful image of the Divine overburdened with earthly matters. The disheveled appearance is also representative of the bankruptcy of the heart of God. God in His infinite grace and wisdom has still grown wear ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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