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!
