Vittorio Possenti
but irreligion is more reliable self
Future, January 3, 2010
"I think that the Church should also open today a kind of 'court of the gentiles' where men can engage in some way to God, and without knowing before they have found access to his mystery. " With these words in his speech to the Roman Curia, Benedict XVI opens the extraordinary and touching a node deep spiritual situation today. The ancient temple was to be a house of prayer for all peoples, in the words of Isaiah, captured by Jesus (Mk 11, 17), which cleared out the lobby of the temple inappropriate businessmen so that the Gentiles could be right there God is the only pray so must the Church in responding to the search for God in our secular age and scientistic.
addition to the necessary dialogue with other religions, the Pope calls on believers to open a new side to pay attention to agnostics and atheists, for whom God is distant, alien, irrelevant. Perhaps, however, remains in many nostalgia for the glory of God and the hidden desire that its light back to illuminate the universal history. The invitation of Benedict XVI is on the mark, showing that it is opening a new phase in the West in the long history of atheism and irreligion. It invites us to open many 'courts of the Gentiles': An example was the recent meeting of the Cultural Project of God today that it has reached key areas. The right attitude is to remain open to hope and keep your ear glued to the ground to listen to and decipher the buzz of germination invisible. They say that despite some recent returns of woodworm explicit and virulent criticism of Christianity, developed in Europe for about 10 years, the Western irreligion is no longer so sure of herself. What I mean by that name? Nell'irreligione express themselves impious and a rejection of religion are no more than atheism, because it leaves the very idea of \u200b\u200breligion. Natural religion empiricist thinkers which they participated and the first wave of enlightenment is reversed in irreligion natural man naturaliter naturaliter irreligious religious man, and definitely sets the sacred. The irreligion therefore means this: God not only exists, and if ever there was did not leave any trace of himself, but - even if there was - we do not need anything in the way in which we proceed to build our lives, and it would indeed unnecessary and superfluous. The irreligion is as cold indifference, belief that the feeling of non-existence of God is the most healthy conviction that miss the absence of God as an idea is wrong. In this framework shows lena new atheism-based positivistic and scientistic, which puts faith in science just as light dispels the darkness of the error. Scientism is more concerned with technology to produce the man of God to fight: his death will inevitably with the advent of irreligion. But irreligion is no longer so sure of herself. Is experimenting with doubt and raises questions in particular in relation to the future of man: the man can produce with biotechnology? Being a man as there is need to produce it as necessary, applying a kind of market fundamentalism, and return to anthropogenesis? These questions re-proposed so many shows the need to open a specific 'lobby of the Gentiles' addressed to scientists and technologists who until recently were somewhat European advocates of irreligion, but slowly they are in their consciousness compared to reconsider the question of whether hand with the question of man to God If that happens, believers can encourage a dialogue centered on a fundamental contradiction that undermines all: on the one hand the deadly mixture of hubris and sense of omnipotence that wants to turn the man in creator of himself, and the other the extreme fragility of many contemporary psychological and spiritual. They are wrapped in a veil that absolutizes every narcissistic their desire, but that poses an insuperable barrier to others. It is as if each s'intendesse as an island and said to each other: noli me tangere, but then it turned out desperately lonely and deluded in his feelings of omnipotence. In this hall you'll find that kind of problem and the problem of man of God go together, like Paul in Athens and again we must announce the unknown God in the great planetary Areopagus. For them, lack of God is not perceived as a lack, as something that diminishes man and makes it smaller.
