Tag: religion

When Is Destroyed That Which for Centuries…

In a posthumous work, the late Pope Benedict XVI says

La società occidentale è una società nella quale nella sfera pubblica Dio è assente e per la quale non ha più nulla da dire. E per questo è una società nella quale si perde sempre più il criterio e la misura dell’umano.

From this stems, to a large extent, the existential vacuum that modern society has gotten itself into. When is destroyed that which for centuries has served man as a fulcrum of meaning, a certainty and a support, helplessness and confusion are inevitable. Disoriented, modern man no longer has anything to fall back on, and deprived of a higher vision of existence, he has become lesser. The benefits of belief for the common man are debatable; however, it cannot be denied that religious practice forces him to see a more complex reality and often lifts him above the banality of everyday life.

Spiritual Charlatans

It is really interesting to follow lectures by spiritual charlatans. Today, more than ever, the world is favorable to them. So we are left to admire how a bald head, a few white hairs and a wrinkled face impose respect, symbolizing the highest wisdom and the most serious meditation. So we are impelled by common sense to listen in silence to truths that our experience has not been kind enough to present to us. And we see how they make sense, how we are good fools, and how, after knowing them, we must go on living. It is a pity that such enchantment does not last…

Christianity Is the Main Barrier to Collectivism

Very few saw that Christianity would be the main barrier to prevent the West from being totally dominated by the collectivist ideas that flourished in the last century. Today, a war is raging that would already be lost, were it not for the honorable Christian resistance. The historical moment is already clear, and too interesting to ignore: after decades of insults and loss of prestige, only Christianity seems to have forged strong enough bonds to supplant this plague called communism. Who would have thought it! In a secular world, it was precisely religion saving it from totalitarian oppression that allowed it to progress to unprecedented levels. Historians will have to do justice, should the West be freed from the disgrace and misery that threatens it, and credit Christianity with avoiding what would perhaps be the most infamous and darkest chapters of human dignity.

Although the Eastern Explanations for the Extreme…

Although the Eastern explanations for the extreme discrepancies in the conditions under which beings are born on this earth seem very reasonable, it does not seem to make sense that a psychopathic murderer is reborn a saint, or the other way around. In other words, where is the link that unites such different natures? It is very difficult to accept the doctrine of karma when we see individuals paying for acts that they would not be capable of committing. If the same essence has to manifest itself in different circumstances, something of itself has to subsist in order to be identifiable, that is, to be itself in a different circumstance. It does not seem plausible that, in each life, the same being develops a temperament that bears no resemblance to what it once was. If this is so, what, then, defines it? And how to admit the supposed “spiritual evolution” through which it must pass, if in each life, unrecognizably, it returns to square one? To these questions, the answers do not seem satisfactory…