In the movie The Gods Must Be Crazy a cola bottle falls from an airplane into a simple pygmy village. They survive on a very primitive level where everything is done in common. The village lives as one. The bottle introduces something new, something unexpected and various individuals try to exploit it for their own ends. The bottle produces divison so the village chief decides to get rid of this supposed gift from the gods. For a man who had been born blind to be able to see must have been mind boggling. The gods must be crazy to have given him the cure at this time of life. He had no categories in his brain to sort out the images that were coming with his new found sight. Then when he is being pulled this way at that by the authorities, by his parents you can only imagine the ball of confusion he was feeling. He needed some secure anchor on which to rely. Jesus invites him to a rock foundation: “Do you believe in the Son of Man?” Here was something secure that he could see with unblinking eyes. Do you believe what your eyes are telling you — that miracles do happen — or in all of the buzzing noises around you. He had heard the noises his whole life. He chose to believe what he was seeing. “I do believe, Lord.”
