Catholic Fundamentalism endeavors to make God, The Loving Programmer, more real to people whose connections with the Iron Ages are disappearing with every new, electronic gadget.
The Catholic Faith began in the Iron Ages. The Church’s vocabularies are, essentially, from The Iron Age. Latin, the Iron Age language of The Church, worked for two thousand years. It had to be replaced with modern languages that reflected the technological changes that have utterly transformed our world in the last century and a half.
Catholic Fundamentalism helps us, in our age, to understand God as The Loving Programmer. From our technical vantage point, we see that He has the ability to program in particles and energies that He has compiled into systems and beings. He used His power to write and download the vast Creation Program. We are human programs who have been written and downloaded within The Creation Program. We tend toward the vanity that keeps us from God because we have been given the power to do some elementary programming of our own.
The less we believe in God, the more vain we become about our own programming abilities. All of us are a little like the early Jews, whose records are there to show us the traps to avoid. They looked at their own, human accomplishments and decided that they didn’t need to worship God, but themselves. Today’s Reading begins with Ex 32:7:
“Go down at once to your people
whom you brought out of the land of Egypt,
for they have become depraved.
They have soon turned aside from the way I pointed out to them,
making for themselves a molten calf and worshiping it,
sacrificing to it and crying out,
‘This is your God, O Israel,
who brought you out of the land of Egypt!'”
