Last Tuesday a fishing boat sank off the Portuguese coast. That boat had been baptized Virgin of Sameiro, once again proving that Faith has no effect over Buoyancy.
Yesterday the whole crew of six fishermen was spotted and rescued. Apart from hypothermia they were found in very good shape.
The fishing boat had set to sea from a small fishing village that is more used to mourn for those who were lost at sea than to rejoice for their deliverance.
Now guess who's being praised for that rescue? You guessed right: Our Lady of Fátima, God, a deceased mother turned into a guardian angel, and the like. A miracle, they say, and no news reporter elucidates them otherwise.
So here I leave a list of true deities that should be thanked for if the fishermen and news reporters ever recover from their deluded state:
- All humans involved in the development of the helicopter and all its gear
- All humans who spent their brain-power developing and improving life-rafts
- All humans whose collection of studies made possible the existence of survival food pills
- All humans who fought for a society that provides services to its members
- All humans who I forgot to mention here but had a part in the deliverance
Notice that none of the inventions. none of the engineering contraptions. none of the political advances above are claimed to have been thought of by divine inspiration. None of those humans involved is considered to be a saint.
If Ichthys, a fish symbol, represents Christians, then human ingenuity's one should be that of a school of whales, or a Godzilla when ill-applied. Nevertheless do not forget that the real monster is the whale-obsessed person. Captain Ahab, for one, couldn't look beyond his own Dick. Moby-Dick.
