“Leviticus is a book from the Old testament, like the Genesis. It supposed that it was written by Moises, some parts and others for unknown authors. This are the laws that ruled the Levites, like a manual behavior. Some parts tell about how the priest had to be. In others… like this one, recited prohibitions the people had. With the time, the religious people took them as a “sacred norm” and they misunderstood everything.” The boy smiled and touched tenderly the cover, the words “Holy bible” could be read in golden letters. “The bible is an interpretation and everyone can make their vision of this as they wanted to. The mistake is in believing that their vision is the correct.”
“You mean… that anyone can make their own version of this like they want to? Isn’t that…a little arbitrary?”
Mello only shrugged his shoulders and deposited the book in the small table of the living room. He took some candies from the table before Matt ate them all.
“It’s a metaphoric book; it’s free to the interpretation that you want to give it. The truth is that God loves, and that’s clear in every page of this. And the fact that people think of Him forbidding things or calling us abominations is just a thought of the men. The human is a being full with wrath; the human is the one who hates itself, no God. There has been a ton of wars, the Crusades for example, where Christians had kill others… that wasn’t a God’s work, it was the men’s.”
“Matt,” He called, the redhead watched him and Mello looked in peace, like if those words were for himself, “I do believe in God, and even despite of that, I still believe that I can find the love in other man… because is just love. Nothing more”
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“That’s why you’re fine dating me…” Recognized his friend, and a doubt bloomed in his mind. “Your mom…?”
The blond looked at him, crestfallen. Maybe he was remembering his childhood times. Those painful times.
“When I told her this same words to my mother, she… simply understood it. She cried so much, Matt” Mello petted the loin on is pet, with sadness lingering in his fingers “She felt so guilty for what she did to her, to my sister.”
“You miss her, do you?” questioned Matt, with an acquiescent smile.
Mello nodded, looking at the photos on the wall, especially one. Two children greeted to the camera, smiling happily. The boy had the blond hair, the big smile letting it see one of his missing tooth, inherent to the childhood. The girl wore a long dress and a hat in her head, she looked older than the boy, her brown eyes looked to the camera with warmth. That photo helped Mello, it helped him to sleep when the nightmares about his lost sister haunted his dreams. Or when he thought he just found her, only to realized that she was more far than ever.
“The bible…” mentioned Mello, after a while in silence. “Shouldn’t be a book of hate. It’s a shame that not too many people can see that.”