HAND OF GOD

Hand of God (football notes by Sindhunata), Kompas, Jakarta 23/11/2009
Edited by Darmansjah

Florian Illies wrote,Van Gaal saying it should trigger a serious theological debate about the image of God that Christianity has been.
Did Not since the theologian Augustine in the early days of the church, Christianity has a picture of God as revealed by Van Gal ( "I like God. I was never sick and always right." From Zeit magazine 5/11/2009), which is God's always true, self-conscious, dominant, arrogant, seriously, though he said he was also innovative, warm, and friendly?
These images would not include what god is real. Even though , de facto, the picture, especially the dominant image of God, arrogant, self-conscious, and serious life for centuries in the Christian self. It's hard, people are freed from the picture.
This shows that the philosopher Ludwig Feurebach criticism of religion, especially Christianity, namely that God is absolute indeed is the fruit of the human mind itself. Awareness of God is the human self-awareness, and knowledge of God is the human self-knowledge. To the nature of God none other than is the human nature itself.
If now someone has a self-conscious of God, dominant, arrogant, cruel, and always right, it really could not be separated from the human traits that make him, the man who is too self conscious, dominant, arrogant, ruthless, and consider myself always right.
Unfortunately, man of God description was eventually created Lord as if it did. And for God's, people were acting dominant, arrogant, loud, violent, and like to impose their own truth to others.
It is time the image of God which was corrected so that the image of God obtained a gentle, full of mercy, forgiveness, compassion, and love. However, it is easy not to correct the image of God. Understand our world as the everyday world. That there is in life is competition, victory, power, and masculinity.
Competition to create dominance. Victory creates arrogance. The power to create injustice. And masculinity to create violence. A Louis van Gaal did not want to continue to succumb under the domination of an "Emperor" Franz Beckenbaeur. Who can defeat the emperor or chairman of a great power and all that, except for "God". Maybe that's why Van Gaal said he is always right as God.
Thierry Henry knows, forbids playing ball with his hands. After all, he did. Understandably, he must obtain a victory by any means', if necessary also with dishonesty "hand of God".
That's the dark side of the everyday world. Thankfully, the side that had emerged and could reflect the situation we are real: we, humans who like to make a picture of God at all wrong, and on behalf of the wrong picture, we also act was wrong, that is arrogant, Dominant, hard, not honestly, do not know myself, and consider themselves righteous.