TUTUVATU

By Dr. Tarcisius Kabutaulaka Stories are powerful.   Today, December 25th, Christians worldwide commemorate a story: that of the birth of a child in Bethlehem about 2,000 years ago. It was the beginning of a story that became the foundation of Christianity.   Indeed, most religions are based on stories. It is the faith in the stories that form the foundation of global religions such as Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, etc. If you take away the stories, it is likely that these religions will crumble.   It is therefore important to immortalize these stories in order to feed humanity’s need for faith, which creates communities.   Our world is based on stories: stories of evolutions, empires, parallel worlds, conquests, everyday experiences, fairies, etc.   These stories can engender “imagined communities” – to borrow from Benedict Anderson – that in turn create our collective existence. These “imagined communities” become the foundation fo