Romeowr and Julicat

Fish market ! Wet and smelly fish market! Bustling with men carried large box of ice full of fish fresh from the sea. A normal fish market....or so it seemed. No one knew, or they choose to shut their mouth if they knew, that in reality that whole area is controlled by two clans of cats. For years,maybe decades, these two clans fought each other over territory, pride and belief. Clan Mewtague called themselves The Order of Surstromming and clan Catpule called themselves Clan of True Fish.

It all started many years ago when Mewtague's ancestor believed that canned fish factory is sacred place and center of their world, while Catpule's ancestor believed that fresh fish from the sea is divine and sacred creature. The clash of these two belief started the long struggle between clans.

The enmity between Mewtague and Catpule will probably lasted for another decades, if not by some mysterious accident, the next head of Mewtague met the only daughter of Catpule's leader. Chasing after the same mouse, none realized of each other presence, Romeowr bumped into Julicat. And for awhile, Romeowr forget everything about himself,his name,his family or even that mouse. Under the moonlight, the only thing reflected in his eyes is Julicat's figure. Julicat too, at first surprised by the bumping but soon blushing red knowing another handsome cat staring at her. ( by the way, the mouse safely escaped while they staring each other so no animal harmed in the process of writing this story)

That meeting changed everything, for their family has been sworn enemy for years and there's no way they can be together. Both of them tried to bring peace between clans, doing research and showing both parties that surstromming was in fact originally a fresh fish from the sea, but all to no avail. Knowing that nothing they can do to bring peace, Romeowr and Julicat chose to kill themselves by swallowing mentos and cola. Surprised and saddened by their sacrifice, Mewtague and Catpule vowed to end all of enmity between them. And for while, peace reigned. Both clans agreed and compromised that from now they will worship fish, whether it canned fish or fresh fish.

Alas! Peace didn't last long ! A year from the time peace treaty signed, a new war broke out. This time it was a clash between black cat with white stripe and white cat with black stripe. Both thought their own group superior than the other. And once again, Romeowr and Julicat tried to bring peace.
Heh? Romeowr and Julicat were still alive? Didn't they kill themselves? Well duh...cat have nine lives,right? Romeowr and Julicat merely used one of their lives.
And right now, they were forced to sacrifice one of their lives,again. So, just like last time, Romeowr and Julicat killed themselves and brought peace between groups. And,once again,peace prevail.

Not for long! This time war fought between house cat and alley cat. House cat, as the name implied,has owner. As such, have a much better living standard than alley cat who has no owner. While house cat got more fish, street cat can only staring from afar. It didn't take long for the tension between them to escalate.

After that, another broke out between pedigree cats and normal cat. With their slogan, “Pure Blood is superior”, pedigree cats waged war and tried to exterminate normal cats.

And so the cycle continued, for every war Romeowr and Julicat sacrificed one of their lives and brought peace. But soon another war broke out because of another differences. Every peace treaty and compromise has been painstakingly discussed so as to make sure all cats have common view. Right now, all cats worship one fish, have the same portion of fish per cat,and there is no such thing as superior blood. Romeowr and Julicat lose all their lives,and yet war still came.

Atheist said that religion is the source of war and trouble. Many war waged because of differences in belief and religion. And in a way, they maybe right. All along history, Christians did wage war in the name of God. Each carried banner “ True God” and fought each other or fought another religion. But to decide that “ religion is source of all evil “ is too far fetched.

We fought each other not because our religion is different but because we are different...in everything. Even if all religion become one or no religion at all, we will still fight each other. We'll fight because our skin color is different. We'll fight because someone else have a better life at the expense of ours, or so we think. We'll fight because we think we are superior then someone else. We'll fight because someone else value is different then ours. We'll fight differences.

Our faith itself is not the problem, but our desire to be special does. Our desire to be special among men, to be the tallest among men, to be the most righteous, to be superior among other men, to feel good because we are not mere commoner. And the easiest way to make our self looked taller is by stepping on someone else. So we make do with everything we have whether it's religion or skin color or education or wealth or bloodline or even sport team. So we point our finger to other and said, “ You are wrong,different,weak,inferior,loser,evil,demon and so on” . While in reality what we actually want to say is ,” I am right,strong,special,chosen one,superior,winner”.

Of course, Christ and this world is two different thing. But how we deal with that differences will tell us whether we are true disciple of Christ or merely once-a-week-tradition-duty-churchgoer. As a Christian, when we said ,” That is wrong, that is sin” , do we speak as a teacher trying to correct his disciple's mistakes or do we speak as in trying to win a debate? Do we speak because we care and love or do we speak for self satisfying of being right?
We don't need to feel superior and special among men. Our God write each of our name in His hand personally, and that is more than enough!