Monday, May 07, 2007

愛裡沒有懼怕



星期日清早,上教會前,收到一年輕人的電郵,她提及她收到一封電郵:

Dear all,

Please read carefully and comply - Thanks

A pornographic movie is being shot and is intended to show up in America soon, which shows Jesus and his disciples as homosexuals. This is similar to a play that has been in the Theatre halls for a while. It's called Corpus Christi " which means "The Body of Christ". It is a revolting joke of our Lord. But we can make a difference, that's why I'm sending this e-mail to all of you. Could you, please, add your name to this e-mail's list's end? If you do so, together we may be able to ban this movie from being shown in America.

Apparently, some regions from Europe have banned the movie already. All we need is a lot of signatures! Remember, Jesus said: "That he who denies Me before men, I will also deny Him before my Father which is in heaven." Please, do not simply forward!!! Please, select all the text by dragging mouse down on this message. Copy message (CTRL+C), then select "compose" which gives you a new email page, position cursor in the message box & paste (CTRL+V). Edit any unwanted text, add your name at the end of the list and send to all your contacts. When the signatures get to 500 names, whoever is the 500th name, please forward this email to: homasg@softhome.net. And then start it all over again......

IF WE WORK TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE IT!!!!




她深感不安,因為她正構思著一個類似的故事:

can’t say how uneasy I felt as I read about the email. I have ever written a story whose idea is similar to this film, describing homosexual love, all-love, body intimacy between Jesus and his loved ones…I know nothing about the alleged film, and its author. But if my story would arouse the same anti-feeling among Christians, I would cut open my heart to reveal to all of you my truthfulness and faithfulness to Jesus my dearest Lord even if I wrote such story.

I am so sad that I don't feel alright to defend Jesus in this way. We may not understand him. I recall the scene of Peter cutting off the ear of the soldier, who had confronted Jesus. Jesus stopped Peter and healed the soldier, and later it’s Peter that denied Jesus.

I don’t mean to deny Jesus when I wrote such story, or any other stories that go against the ‘principles’ of Christianity. These stories just speak for myself, for our generation, for the human condition we’re in. I would like the stories to be my
offerings to Him, as they stand for my truthful recognition of the way of life
I’m living, the kind of person the era has made me. so if such films (like the
previous 'Brokeback Mountains') are rejected, there'll be no more truthful works
in such an age.

I’m sad that we may misunderstand Jesus. What Jesus cares is not his own name (even not his Father’s), nor any religious ‘principles’; what he cares is his people. Defending his name, or defending Christianity, can do no good to our counterparts on this earth (same for any religiously marginalized people such as the homosexuals - they won’t know more about themselves and Jesus even if all those films are banned). If you ever leave school time and start working in the society, you will find nothing truer than the fact that not many people can live like a real human (we’re just objects). Can we recognize our brothers and sisters everywhere (not just
Christian brothers and sisters in church) in our society, like Moses recognized
his Hebrew counterparts in Egypt? And why not the mass attention be drawn on
things like that, rather than putting our energy into defending Christianity?




讀了她的電郵後,按捺不住內心的情緒,我匆匆回了她:

作為半電影發燒友,我一直沒聽過這電影的資料。若是如此挑釁宗教的電影,在外地早已街談巷議了,香港怎會收不到「風」。上網查證,找不著任何相關的電影資料,只找到一個證實這消息為「流料」的網頁:http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/g/gayjesusmovie.htm


身在教會那麽多年,眼見不少熱心過了頭的基督徒,為著捍衛耶穌又或基督教的「名」,熱昏了頭,完全不理智,連謠言也深信不疑,人云亦云,抵制這,打擊那。看在眼裡,既可笑無聊,也可憐。我在想,到底宗教(對我們來說,是基督教)帶給人們的,是平安,還是神經兮兮的生活。若隨時不了解清楚,不問情由,便對空氣揮拳怒吼,那麼,基督徒與追殺《撒但詩篇》作者的極端回教徒又有什麼分別?我想,惟一分別只是打壓的形式而已。

不少無聊頂透的信徒花了寶貴時間捕風捉影,卻錯失了人間傑作,如《斷背山》,又或卡山扎基的《基督最後的誘惑》。無聊頂透信徒青筋暴現喊打喊殺之際,我卻從這些作品看到人的愛、人的脆弱無助、上帝的恩典和愛,不禁下淚。

欣賞你的寫作構思,為你高興。創作只須忠於個人對人生、信仰的體驗、理解和詮釋,他人的看法、閒言閒語,又或壓力,不理也罷。努力!

接近凌晨時分,收到另一位年輕人的電郵回應:

看到這個電郵及各人的回覆後,心情變得沉重了。基於工作關係,經常接觸到不少同志朋友。他們都認為,香港基督教界普遍已經把他們孤立和邊緣化,令不少基督徒壓根子對「同性戀」聞風喪膽,「恐同」不已。沒想到一群一向自稱「愛人如已」的教徒,竟然要與同志劃清界線,在中間立下不得逾越的銅牆鐵壁。這算是「愛」的表現嗎?

最近看了一本由「香港性學會」出版的新書《情長同志》,記載了香港12位男同志的口述歷史,12個故事,每個都有血有淚。同志也是人,他們追求愛,也渴望被愛。面對主流社會的歧視和打壓,性小眾們受盡不公平的對待。若然不了解、不問情由便力斥同性戀的不是,那等同落井下石,把同性戀者推向絕路。

p.s:
5月20日是「第三屆國際不再恐同日香港區遊行」,有興趣的請到官網看看:http://www.idahohk.org/

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