Bill O’Reilly in the Miami Herald this morning sees his own Catholicism and the faith of Islamics who do not see how what they do demeans and destroys the value of belief in religion.  O’Reilly still retains his Catholic beliefs but is shaken by the Pope’s by-passing the scandal (the really big issue in The Church today) of tainted priests.  He is driven to compare what is going on in a universal church with the even bigger religious group, the followers of Mohammed.

O’Reilly says that both groups “have work to do”.  This is obviously true but it is equally obvious that entropy is at work here as it is in the physical world. There is a state of disorder that is ongoing and as such there is also a tendency for it not to be corrected.  What is happening therefore becomes the “normal” state of affairs.  My physics is even shakier than my chemistry and the terms I use are left-overs from a misspent youth when I preferred reading novels to reading my textbooks. I had to look up “entropy” to check if one of its meanings could be used here.  It does.

It is quite interesting that O’Reilly does not slam the mother religion, Judaism, that ancient Hebrew formulation whose one God pronouncement and sort of off-handed mention of a “messiah” stimulated both Christianity and Islam. And, this brings to the fore the thought that something is quite wrong here.  O’Reilly’s small voice on the topic of reform of basic flaws in the two biggies in religion does not include transgressions of the Jews and of Israel the land created by them out of the original real estate promised to them by the one God they wrote about in the first Bible.

I am brought to the conclusion that the long taught belief that Jews killed Christ, the “Messiah” and that they, the Jews, were outmoded and superseded by both the Christians and the Muslims, has been overlooked in this recent reformulation of the entropy that ruled the world.  The old entropy seems to suddenly have been cancelled out and a new one – a self examination and fear of what has been created – is instituted instead.  This might be a good thing.  It might be good for the Jews to have self-criticism become the way two mighty religious entities are entropically (the adverb – I just looked it up) involved.

It might even be good for the world for this to happen.  A new kind of entropy in which all religions and all peoples study their navels and see that theirs is not the only belly buttons that have fuzzy lint in them.  It would be a far, far better thing to do than trying to bash each other’s brains out. At least it might get people to look at other people and see their commonalities and their people-hood rather than the old comforting look that tells you that all others are not quite as human as you are.