FOR A CULTURE WITHOUT RELIGION, AN AFFIRMATION OF APOSTASY During the most recent trip of El Papito Francis, a young girl, who had formerly lived on the streets, climbed to where he was, before a cerimony, and launched the uncomfortable question: Why does God allow child prostitution happen? (Link on first comment.) The answer given by Señor Bergoglio has come in his speech, which he improvised from the commotion caused by the situation, and he didnt do bad at all --- but then, clearly, he has not gone deep into other implications contained on the sincere innocent curiosity of a psychologically traumatized infant, still perplexed at the exploitaition she has personally lived, as witness or object. The girls question shows an example of how things might get clouded by the supposition of a deitys existence. She has asked in all sincerity, as someone who believes in God, but her question might as well have been made by someone who would have wanted to illustrate, rhetorically, something different, to be used as an element to build an argument that would have taken into questioning not only the existence of God, but also the validity of the belief in a deity. As it has become clear in his sermon, Francis does certainly know what is it that resides in the human drama of child prostitution, but, at the same time, he cannot recognize this truth (it is something made by men) without also recognizing that maybe God does not give a damn about it... because God simply does not exist --- as well as leaving implicit that He is also yet another different kind of evil that man has created to keep himself from taking upon him all his responsibilities. This is the translation of the first line from the character Schlomo on a certain scene from the film Train of Life --- he is the villages crackpot (the scene is in the context of the sequence that starts at the 56 minutes mark): Let go of me, Im crazy! What is the matter, if God does not exist? Have you asked yourselves if we exist? [people let go of him, and a villager ushers all to let him speak] God has created man to his own image. This is beautiful! Schlomo, the image of God! But who wrote this sentence on the Torah? Man... not God. Man... has written it without modesty, comparing himself to God. Maybe God has created men. But man... Man, the son of God... created God only to be capable of inventing himself. [an elder asks him to repeat] Man wrote the Bible... for fear of being forgotten, without any care for God. [the rabbi tells him its enough, but he goes on] Rabbi, we dont love and dont pray to God. But we beg him that he helps us to keep on going forward. Thats all in which God is important to us. We only think about ourselves. Now the question is not only to know if God exists or not, but if we exist. Its already past the time for us to leave this absurd kind of collective catharsis on which we pretend to each other, in tolerance, hipocrisy and unreflected reasoning, that magical beliefs may continue to serve to orientate us in any way whatsoever. Religions have already fulfilled their role in human history. Its necessary to start treading the path for the natural extinction of all of them. So if you are not a true believer --- as most of us are not --- dont let yourself be taken by cultural tradition, family expectations, by absolutely anything at all, and keep yourself distant from any sort of organization of that kind --- do not baptize your children, do not take them to church, do not offer them any sacrament, for otherwise youd be selling them to a lie as you lie to them. And do not tergiversate in relation to any kind of imposition dictated by any religious cult, under any pretense, not even charity, for there are many other ways to give. May the present generation be the last one to suffer from this cultural maladie. * Train of Life, Romenia, 1998, directed by Radu Mihăileanu. https://youtube/watch?v=3_E171KQgEA Seth, Mike
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 11:36:24 +0000
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