DOGMA review

Dogma is just a “work of comedic fantasy”. It contains countless foul words uttered and perhaps blasphemy for some Christians. However, if one is just keen enough on the details of the film, one shall notice that it is just fiction and humorous, that needs not be given serious attention. Nevertheless, the film doesn’t forget that God chooses sinners to carry His important missions.

There are lots of ideas that struck me. To enumerate: a.) God was given anthropomorphic descriptions when we know God is neither man nor woman; b.) A 13^th apostle that wasn’t listed because he is black; c.) Jesus’ bloodline was found in the person of Bethany, making Mary not an eternal virgin. Although, Bethany can’t be considered any relations with Jesus because Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit; d.) Angels could become human when their wings fall off, which is a child’s idea of angels because angels would never become human. There are many more funny scenes that somehow mock Christianity but they could just easily be rebutted. But what really struck me most is the idea that God has a habit of adopting a human form and coming to earth, disguise in a form of an old man, he was ambushed by a trio of hooligan hockey players from hell, who beat him into a coma and left him helpless in a hospital. And that He could not escape from His mortal form and restore Himself to his full divine glory and omnipotence. At the same time, the film says God is a woman?

Okay…let us assume then that the idea ‘God loves to adopt a human body and comes to earth to be with His creation’ is true. Well, this would just explain that God indeed is neither man nor woman perhaps something supernatural beyond man’s comprehension. Otherwise, He would not need to contain Himself in some form to be with us, for He has body of His own and having a body means that the soul is trapped inside the body. A contradiction to what the film director wishes to depict that God is a woman. If the film portraits our assumption, this only means that the human body just serve as His capsule to travel from somewhere to earth to be with mortals and step out from it anytime He wants. This makes the scene God disguised as an old man and was comatose, that God was trapped and was unable to escape from that body a loophole.

Indeed the film is just a comedy fantasy from start till end; I would like to remain unshaken by this plain art of entertainment. I still believe that God’s omnipotence would not allow that to happen. In the times when God seems to be in comatose, that evilness seems to prevail in this world… God is just making a joke and in His omnipotence allows them to happen to bring out the good masking in them. For evil must exist in order for good to be realized; as, it is in the existence of darkness that light could shine through.