The proposition: Is god suable?

The movie, The Man Who Sued God, asked some very enticing questions and made som e good propositions in the process. I found that the movie handled the subject with manners and decorum. I found tha t the movie maintained the subject light yet fetching. I found the concluding re marks by the protagonist very elucidating: the god in acts-of-god does not exist a nd that suing the God that people worship would be a pointless exercise in that how does one sue Faith? Therein lays the whole basis to religion, spirituality, belief, the universe, li fe, and everything. In our modern world, information is paramount. Yet it is this paradigm that cre ates much unrest, unease and discord. The modern ethos of making an informed dec ision relies on the fact that one is able or capable - to disseminate the pletho ra of available information, and make an informed decision based on the disseminat ed information. The flaw to the above is that in most cases, the information at hand only provid es two sticky alternatives in many faades - to a viewpoint thus leaving one with a 50-50 change that whatever one decides upon will be the correct answer or the correct plan-of-action. The study of statistics has shown that the probabilitie s are exactly the same if one just followed ones instincts. Faith follows similar re concerned. How can oes not exist or does ly fill the hordes of he world. And that is ct matter at hand. patterns of likelihoods where life and spiritual beliefs a one argue against the belief that God in its many guises d exist? The ensuing arguments and counter arguments will on gigabytes available on the hordes of server farms around t not even mentioning the tons of books printed on the subje

The movie took the arguments into a court of law where the lawyers, attorneys an d barristers questioned, argued, debated and called witnesses to the witness-sta nd in their attempt at proving one-way-or-the-other that God was liable for acts -of-god, or not, and thus by implication, the followers, the clergy and all who profess to be disciples of the deity in question. Of course the movie could not take a stand on the subject and thus ended in an i mpasse. The only defining statement is that the legalese wording acts-of-god was oppressive and abusive and held no relevance to the God deity being worshiped my millions around the globe. Indeed, how does one argue faith or even the application thereof? Millions of Humans take solace and hope and refuge against all the atrocities th e natural world can throw at them based on that word: a word that does not just encompass optimism, confidence and conviction, but that embodies ones whole bein g, existence and belief structures. Arguments in the movie were well thought out for the protagonist, who himself wa s a famed lawyer, threw many a curved ball at all the religious fanatics who got onto the bandwagon claiming blasphemy, heresy and hellfire. The end statement of love conquers all sorted all issues and calmed all antagonists. Yes, the movie proved to be somewhat controversial and provocative all rolled in to one, but the execution thereof was wonderful to witness. I do not see the subject matter being openly argued in a court of law but the re

ality thereof is that such subjects are argued on a regular basis in a court of law: a defendant claims that she saw an apparition that told her to go forth and c leanse the world of all evil; a defendant claims that he had a religious epiphan y and is now clean of all fleshly desires and sexual wantons; a group of believe rs holes themselves up in a confined compound waiting for a religious occurrence to take place oblivious to the consequences of their anti-social actions; etc. Faith is usually attributed to the spiritual world, but does Faith have a part t o play in secular life? The answer to my mind is yes: one needs faith in the judicial system that the la w will run its course; that the police-person will do their job; that the utilit y provider will serve its constituents properly and orderly; that the Government will serve and protect the people; that the people will act in good faith towar ds their fellow humans and other cohabitants. I fear that such ideals are very much pie-in-the-sky and that faith has been pla yed out, but it is the only sanity left in this topsy-turvy world we live on. In the movie, Billy Connelly boated off into the horizon with his girlfriend and faithful dog, happy that all is well with the world.