Friday, December 26, 2008

Genesis 3:1 Redux

I just finished viewing the heartrending (and staggering) story of 2 young coeds involved in a fatal crash. One of them died, but the other remained mis-identified for over a month after the crash, attended to in her convalescence during the entire 5 weeks of the mix-up by the couple who were actually the parents of the dead girl. The story itself is riveting (and literally unbelievable), the faith of both girls' parents heartwarming and obviously genuine, so much so that the exceedingly cunning sub-message implicit thruout the story doesn't shout so much as slithers into the viewers' consciousness---what I call the "Intellectual Zyklon-B Effect," officially termed "Nested Looping." In effect, what the Dateline raconteurs pull off is an impeachment of belief in the Scriptures and in Christ by implying a parity between the seeming gullibility of both sets of parents and the gullibility of belief in resurrection and heaven.