Some of my reflections on the belief in miracles and the devil, or, in hindsight, the use of propaganda and intimidation that the Church of Rome is in times of political crisis more acute - Following its historic vocation of the main ideological bulwark of the conservative forces in Italy - have caused on these pages, answer tones and altered by a rather hostile 'theologian' Crotone.
Meanwhile, I thank him for the attention, although I now see that a 'cultural debate' between citizens of a democratic and secular state, between partners of a free country, as harsh and radical ideas of the contrast can be compared, must set aside reference to people who support them, respectively. In fact, he will agree at least that is elegant not disagree with statements that are considered erroneous trying to belittle the person who sets out.
I do not have the chance to meet my contradictory (at least I do not think I can not remember) and he, instead, considers to meet me and identifies me as 'intellectual', as 'Dean' and as belonging to a 'well-known parish'. I have to correct it. 'Intellectual', in my opinion, is a generic qualification that unites all human beings as thinking beings (including theologians) and does not define a specific category, since what matters, after all, are not the individual stories of people thinking, but I think the truth is that anyone can think of, regardless of culture and studies . 'Dean' I have been, and now that they are no longer, I hope not to have to bring this brand to life. But above all, do not belong to any church or religious or secular, not that I make a boast, but true. Finally, the sermon (or 'lecture') is not the kind of communication that usually attend, and my intention was only to express, albeit in a vibrated, a position, I do not think that is farfetched or outrageous in a pluralistic society is, or should be, one in which we live.
arrived at the beginning of the seventies, with a fairly short stretch of road now in front of me, having always cherished the desire to understand and exercised my opinion on the various representations of the world and society that human communities build, enrich, change , fit - just like they do with their homes and cities - to make sense and order to their lives and experience, I am happy to be confirmed in the belief gained at a young age and free to express themselves, without bosses who make account and not idols, more or less powerful, before whom 'kneel' (decline, therefore, for me, the 'call in the final peroration of' response ').
repeat, in reverse, with strength, my personal belief that all religious beliefs and superstitious beliefs, all of which I see no difference between either of 'essence' or the 'way' - belong to childhood and humanity religious education takes place in the 'mother' or 'seminars' or, what is more serious, is conveyed, as unfortunately happens in Italy, through institutional channels of the school and State television, encourages the persistence of naive and uncritical modes of thought, preventing the passing of that phase of confusion and lack of distinction between the inner and the outer world, between fantasy, imagination, dream and reality, which Jean Piaget has described as typical of 'realism' child (ie the tendency of their children, considered as real ghosts and hallucinations that arise from an emotional world not yet under control).
grow, become adults, it means, instead, learn to live ' with open eyes' : not closed in the face of continual and surprising revelations of the nature and history, like the' dogmatic ', which, like spiders, only to draw the threads of their own presumed to know, or narrowed, as the preference for' mystics', always searching in vain for an ecstatic experience that propels them towards a leap in the size of the 'supernatural', which in reality is nothing more than an 'idea fictitious,' as, Cartesian, you may call the human mind without any feedback in the experience.
know, in fact, is, essentially, want to see clearly and without bias the facts right. The sight and other senses - he said it also Tommaso Campanella - are the irreplaceable organs of knowledge, as well as the mind is the processing center and connecting the many and varied contents of experience. Science does nothing but bring before our eyes and our attention that is not perceptible 'naked eye' (alone and, therefore, to our present consideration), amplifying with special tools (mechanical, optical, electronic and so on. ) the sensible horizon and expanding the field of mental activity by means of testable hypotheses.
But in any case there can be no knowledge beyond the experiment and the experiment, not because of an inherent limitation of human intelligence, as they wish to believe, but for the simple fact that beyond the world 'visible', as well as past experience, present and future, there is nothing you know: there is nothing .
It makes a certain impression that, after five centuries of modernity, there are still some who exalts the 'dogma' - that is, the unthinkable , in which, throughout history, have made, but only through compromises only verbal disputes and cultural conflicts of power between men in the flesh-and consider the knowledge that demystifies and denies it, as an 'accursed fruit', forgetting, thereby, how to claim that every man has the right to communicate with other simple truths of common sense, have suffered, from the Church of Rome, persecution, imprisonment, torture and the stake.
fanaticism does not belong, in fact, only the Islamic world, is an intrinsic component of all religions and has its roots in the various priestly caste and power systems, which they created and based on the assumption that there is a privileged through which only their ministers derive the Truth, whose self-proclaimed guardians and authentic interpreters.
Within the Catholic world has acted and acts, fortunately, the great Christian teaching of love of neighbor, which over the centuries has attenuated the doctrinal rigidity, and through spontaneous movements of popular origin, such as the Franciscans, has partly offset the oppressive combination of ecclesiastical power with the dominant political and economic oligarchies. But today we live in times of restoration and reactionary ideology, based on ethno-religious, is taking shape, threatening the civil achievements of liberalism, democracy lacismo (as superior rule of coexistence between different opinanti). This is why every citizen who is linked to the standards of civilization to which our country seemed much, though with difficulty, which began in the sixties, together with the Church of John XXIII and Vatican II - he must feel their voices, although the most dissonant and unpleasant.
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