of Vannino Chiti
in "Future" of February 26, 2010
There is an issue of primary importance in the politics of our time: that the confrontation with religion. It refers to the necessary renewal of political culture, even for the progressive forces, and the fact that it meets with the rights and secularism. Before us is the task of contributing towards a new humanism, which includes free and the person in the manifold richness of its size. The West has placed the person in a size exclusively materialistic, deleting any reference to the transcendent and giving legitimacy only to the sphere - while important - phenomena empirically demonstrable. But the meaning of life lies not solely in them: we surrounded him questions about its ultimate origin and a future after death. The answer to these questions is not one, neither can be imposed by the state. It is entrusted to our freedom and responsibility. Religious freedom is an integral part of freedom. In society should be guaranteed the pluralism of religious faiths and cultures, without discrimination, in a joint fundraising and activities to help the person to happen, to live with dignity. It serves so much more than the freedom of worship is the process of secularization that must be addressed in new terms. Tomorrow's society can not rely on the simple release of religious beliefs in the dimension of modernity, after a short phase were not considered to be archaic survivals. I wish my party, the Democratic Party, he felt as his goal to overcome a destructive secularization, which has marginalized religious beliefs: This is one of its foundational reasons. It is not the time of the simple everyday pragmatism.
a progressive force must be able to also measure the "long thoughts" on targets placed at the horizon, able to give reason of policy day. Secularization, and here I connect to the reflection of Jürgen Habermas, does not mean the disappearance of the religious dimension, but a redefinition of the boundaries and areas of intervention of religious institutions and those of civilians. That is not a solution nor the State Ethics - and recently Pope Benedict XVI recalled that a state ethics can not exist - nor a secularism that is based on the reduction of faith to a private rather than the necessary distinction and autonomy between the state and denominations. A new humanism can be built only through a dialogue and a meeting between believers and other believers. The central role to be assigned to the person and his dignity is a fundamental ground-sharing between a progressive force and faiths, Christianity in the first place. It is within this framework that is required of all courage in the Catholic world, who struggle to combine the value of life with those of freedom and responsibility in the secular world, who struggle to conceive of the value of freedom, if not in ' scope of the rights culture, separated by an equally strong anchoring duties, dominant in the seventies, but unable to speak to today's society. Not only that, a stand-alone, or the traditions of the Socialist Left of Catholicism democracy are no longer sufficient to build a new political culture: that it is even more radical. If you take this assessment as I recognize that we have yet to take significant steps Pd, but the knowledge that this search is necessary is present. For this reason, the right way is not that of a cynical political values \u200b\u200bbut willing to grant to a religious "supreme vigilance" on the ethics laws of nature in exchange for electoral support and the use of principles of faith as the axes of identity. Or to involve the church in a grid, perhaps instrumentalizing. The right path is that of a mutual respect and autonomy, open discussion on the challenges ahead humanity. The positive secular state is, in our times, the only guarantee for the same freedom of the Church and of every religious denomination.
a progressive force must be able to also measure the "long thoughts" on targets placed at the horizon, able to give reason of policy day. Secularization, and here I connect to the reflection of Jürgen Habermas, does not mean the disappearance of the religious dimension, but a redefinition of the boundaries and areas of intervention of religious institutions and those of civilians. That is not a solution nor the State Ethics - and recently Pope Benedict XVI recalled that a state ethics can not exist - nor a secularism that is based on the reduction of faith to a private rather than the necessary distinction and autonomy between the state and denominations. A new humanism can be built only through a dialogue and a meeting between believers and other believers. The central role to be assigned to the person and his dignity is a fundamental ground-sharing between a progressive force and faiths, Christianity in the first place. It is within this framework that is required of all courage in the Catholic world, who struggle to combine the value of life with those of freedom and responsibility in the secular world, who struggle to conceive of the value of freedom, if not in ' scope of the rights culture, separated by an equally strong anchoring duties, dominant in the seventies, but unable to speak to today's society. Not only that, a stand-alone, or the traditions of the Socialist Left of Catholicism democracy are no longer sufficient to build a new political culture: that it is even more radical. If you take this assessment as I recognize that we have yet to take significant steps Pd, but the knowledge that this search is necessary is present. For this reason, the right way is not that of a cynical political values \u200b\u200bbut willing to grant to a religious "supreme vigilance" on the ethics laws of nature in exchange for electoral support and the use of principles of faith as the axes of identity. Or to involve the church in a grid, perhaps instrumentalizing. The right path is that of a mutual respect and autonomy, open discussion on the challenges ahead humanity. The positive secular state is, in our times, the only guarantee for the same freedom of the Church and of every religious denomination.
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