Church Matrix

The Catholic Church has come up with a new priest recruitment poster that portrays the priest as Neo of the movie Matrix. This is indeed very cool but not in the way the poster was intended. If we port the Matrix mythology over to the Church’s structure, then the church would be the Matrix itself and god the combination of mother and father of it. What does this leave the priest in the poster but the rebel against god and its church in Neo’s part? That would truly be cool as a new priest call up god and says, “I'm going to show them a world without you, a world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries, a world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you.” Somehow I do not think that is what the Church has in mind. This makes me wonder what are they teaching priests in seminaries these day. The Catholic Church, after all, is the body that created hermeneutics, the art of reading behind the lines. They were able to re-interpret the Old Testament into something complete different from before by reading it as a metaphor from beginning to end. Now, they are unable to read an elementary metaphor in the mass culture. That is truly sad. Maybe they figure young people are dumb now, so there is no reason for them to be intelligent. Or, may be a new religious revolution is coming from within the Church. One can only hope!