Sneaky Snake

DAN BROWN — TOM HANKS — INFERNO — 2016

When the book came out in 2013, we were expecting a book by Dan Brown with Dante and his Inferno as the central piece. Definitely. But it finally came out and it left us totally aghast. It was made into a film with Tom Hanks as Professor Langdon and I just wonder here if the film corrected the surprising non-scientific — not say anti-scientific — discourse of the book. I am afraid not because the action is visual, and it covers up the scientific discourse that is reduced to as little as possible. It becomes the danger of a pandemic and since then we have been experiencing, for now, more than one full year such a pandemic and we know everything about it. The other day, a couple of months ago, a Jehovah Witness militant contacted me on the phone and started quoted the Old Testament to prove science was right, and pretty soon we were going to live forever. That discourse was totally anti-Christian because for the Christian religion death is an essential step in our lives, both on earth and beyond. It is the possibility to enter the procedure that might bring us to the Messianic Jerusalem. Death is necessary for Christians. And death is ever-present in the Old Testament, at least as much as in the New Testament, though without the possibility for ALL humans to be saved and to have eternal life in the Messianic Jerusalem. In the Old Testament that promotion after death is only open to the Jews since God is the God the elected people, exclusively thus the Jews.

I told the Jehovah Witness militant that the earth is already overcrowded since it overconsumes about forty percent of earthen resources every year, meaning that the Earth will only regenerate 60% of all the resources we consume. That is the formula to a catastrophe, to the famous apocalypse. What can we do about it? But we must remember all we consume, no matter how we produce it, artificially, in labs, in fields, or simply by gathering and hunting it will always come from resources we find on earth and if we consume more than the earth can regenerate the earth will end up dying and us along with it and probably in dire straits, in long years of mutual and reciprocal slaughtering and genocide…