Stumble it!The Five Letter Word
posted in Religion, Society by themaiden |It is worse than the four letter words, and the four letter combos and permutations. It cuts deeper and infects the wound. Carlin’s list, original or revised, has nothing on this five character, two syllable utterance. Yet the FCC doesn’t bat an eyelash.
Wow! What filth is this?
More shocking perhaps is that children love this word. They use it. They believe in it. Book after book features it as theme. Parents utter this monstrosity and think nothing of it.
What is it? What is this horror?
M.A.G.I.C.
“But magic is fun,” you say. “Magic is either illusion or make-believe. It is entertainment. It is an escape. Who doesn’t want to believe in unicorns and strange goings-on? What harm is there? We all know that magic is just pretend. No one grows up actually believing it anymore.”
Ah, but magic also describes all of the interesting parts of religion. Raising the dead, walking on water, breathing life into a lump of mud… magic. All magic. And that is where the horror lies. Very few people really believe in magic these days. Hardly anyone teaches their children to believe in spells and in charms.
Yet there it is popping up in verse after verse. What an embarrassment! Talking shrubbery. Columns of sentient cloud. Sticks that turn to snakes.
But the word grates on the rational mind doesn’t it? The word reeks of foolishness and ignorance. So, of course magic often gets disguised, dressed in less revealing vocabulary. It sounds better to talk of ‘providence’ and ‘miracle’ than ‘magic’ and ’sorcery’ but the meaning is the same. It all means ‘effects caused by a supernatural agency.’ It all means ‘magic’. And that is what makes it so horrible. Called by their proper names, some things are hard to stomach.
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