was a dear friend, the moral philosopher Luigi Alici, made me see the principle of which they are steeped in idolatrous two famous slogan adopted by a large multinational mobile phone. One says: "The whole world around you," the other, "Life is Now", or "Life is Now." Taken together, clearly illustrate the moral and cultural horizon of our time and many of our young people and flattening subjectivism led to the present. Subjectivism eliminates the other and devalues \u200b\u200bthe relationship, lived, at best, in an instrumental way. The flattening of the memory and this eliminates the project, all that matters is to pass from one experience to another without drawing any lesson other than that which reaffirms the need to accumulate more experience. More and more before power and money, the man of the twenty-first century idols seem to be just that. What unites them is a particular idea of \u200b\u200bfreedom. Being free does not mean this in mind, take upon himself the responsibility of living in relationship with each other, but to be the center of the stage and meet and enjoy themselves as much as possible of this centrality. Instead of the I-Thou relationship, that's self-centeredness. Instead of the principle of responsibility, that's the pleasure principle.
"Idol" comes from the greek Eidolon, image. The verb means to see Eido. The idol is an image to which man gives meaning divine. It is not God, but an image of God as such, it is man-made. Operating profit including (We desperately need to make the invisible visible, the tangible untouchable) but childish. Turning the image into divinity, God turns away, not closer.
The history of idolatry is as old as man. But today there's something new: the hero is the man himself. Instead of a golden calf is a mirror that reflects our own image. We have sanctified ourselves. E 'in front of ourselves that we bow in worship and practice sacrifices, as shown well in the rampant cult of the body and physical capacity.
The ancient Indo-European root of sacrum seems to have two meanings: one to join and to follow. In either case we are faced with a report. I subscribe to someone or something, I follow someone or something. Today we can say that there is no space for the sacred. The space remained, but changed the subject. God is not another dimension of the sacred and not the report. Since the divine image sent back from the mirror is mine, the sacred dimension is exhausted in the ego.
In Christianity, the I-Thou relationship is raised to its highest degree. The Christian God puts so in connection with the creature to become a man. And 'the religion of the logos, the word is incarnate. So, when the idol is myself, Christians and their faith become stumbling blocks for me to delete. For the idolatrous self-centredness is not a faith based not only tolerable in a relationship but also on a meeting and a meeting of love! Once
Professor Salvatore Mancuso, a gynecologist at the Policlinico Gemelli, told me that the stem cells of the fetus moving to the mother's body and remain there throughout the life of the woman. The exchange begins from the very moment of fertilization, never ends and the mother has a curative value because the cells act as helper of his son, going to settle where they are most needed for women's health. It is not only my mother to give birth to the child. His son, literally gives life to the mother. For this reason, Mancuso says, "is good for the mother's belly to stroke: a gesture of affection toward the child even before birth takes care of her."
is a case in which the physiology spoken language with perhaps clearer than philosophy.
(Source: Aldo Maria Valli, Piùvoce.net, January 11, 2011)
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