Metaphors used to describe the human mind have ranged from "fertile ground" to "half filled glasses". If I may add one more, it would be "photographic negative".
Watched "Case 39", a horror movie starring Renee Zellwegger on my camp mate's laptop this evening and went to shower after that. Upon closing my eyes as the water hit my face, I saw the hideousity that was the face of the monster from the movie.
What does that say about the human mind? That it is but a reflection or product of our experiences?
Which brings me to the question, what were those people thinking when they attacked the churches (6 hit so far, and counting) after a Malaysian Court ruling allowing the word "Allah" to be used to refer to the Christian God in the Malay language, a common practice in the middle east and neighbouring Indonesia, the most populous Muslim country on earth. Whatever justifications they can think of, including such indefensible ones like "Muslims will be confused, and this will promote conversion to Christianity", or even more ridiculous "Malaysia is different, so what applies in Indonesia and the middle east cannot apply here". Fine. Even if I choose not to attack the intellectual reasoning behind these, surely it cannot be right to attack churches just to display discontent. If Malaysia is serious about racial and religious harmony and the preservation of the freedom to worship, more has to be done to prevent this from escalating.
This cuts way too close to home. Surely we can choose to believe in what we believe without violence, right?
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