After reading Creative mythology by Joseph Campbell I started to think a lot about life, the man´s history and how he has acted across the centuries.
Why is it that in catholic churches you only see third age people? (by the way, I don´t have anything against old people) why only people that are one foot to be dead visit those places? Why can´t you see young people, men and women revolving and dancing in a joyful celebration of peace if life´s all about movement? Here is a possible answer: Catholic church isn´t connect with life at all.
In the previously called book, Joseph Campbell talks about the structure of the rites and myths across three long periods of time, since the beginning of man on earth. You can see how myths are so closely similar from a far away island in Hawaii to the ancient times in Athens where the great philosophers appeared.
The figure that always is marked on the myths are two, one that is divine and the other how is mortal, one that is eternal and the other that has a lifetime preestablished. In ancient times and places, they used to do human sacrifices in certain times with the goal of teach their habitants how the cosmos worked, how could it be seen like a system in which for life to prevail, men have count with a major role, because we perpetuated the system itself, we are the myth taking life and turning flesh, the prelude and the end of everything.
With the pass of years and getting closer a little more to West (stating with Greece) the mortal figure was replaced, humans no longer were sacrifice per se, instead they started using animals, more specially pigs. The divine figure of the holy wisdom was represented by snakes and in other cases when there were not snakes, they used relative species like eels. The rite always kept a same structure in all civilizations; they always get to a point in which the animal that was sacrificed descend to the bottom of the well to encounter with the snake, being the latter the holy wisdom.
By analogy and matching these myths with modernity, you can perfectly see the same structure in the rites done by church, more specifically Catholic church.
But before we mention that, let´s talk about the snake, because if you feel a little bit sceptic my dead reader, take the time to make yourself the next question: why the medicine´s symbol are two bifurcate snakes? will it means that doctors have the knowledge and wisdom to cure life?
Keeping aside that parenthesis and turning back to the themes about rites on the catholic church you can see by analogy the same myth on the Genesis´ book, in which, Adam and Eve´s appeared on the paradise. If we started with the premise that the snake represents the wisdom of life and death and thanks to the rites this knowledge is revealed to human beings for their understanding of the roll that they came to developed in this brief and shooting moment called life, why the church says that God punished his son when he bit the apple if at that same moment he (the man) is getting the holy wisdom for how the system works? If God wants to be praised and keep himself for the rest of times why he doesn´t teach his son about the mysteries of life and death on first place so he can´t failed at him?
Maybe could be that in one point, after Jesus Christ was dead and the arrangements to decide what books should and shouldn´t be kept on the bible were done, they (the priests) noticed how much power they gained from people when they emphasized Adam´s guilt ( the guilt that according to them, belongs to all of us), they obtain more and more power from the people who followed them.
The poor human being, victim of a cruel destiny (that if he had been conscious enough, he would understand about the knowledge of life´s beautiful monstrosity) now feels guilty and for that reason he delivers his power to the first one who sells the salvation.
The church started well, talking about the myths in which the snake and the man were relate and very closely. The problem lies later when they started making more emphasizes on the guilt and started inventing a big lie putting Adam like a sinner for ate the apple.
If the hole point of life is life itself (praying God) so isn´t precisely necessary to know how the system works? How God is life and death?
The Catholic church in their attends to keep the power, they touch the spine of guilt, put the life on other side (the heaven) and turn a man into a pig who sacrifices by himself.