We have seen that those who have faith, or is naive enough or is not interested in the truth. With a fast-paced world, full of pain, evil, mutability, religion offers an attractive place of beauty, peace and eternal life. Everyone likes a place, but unfortunately not just inventing something from scratch to be able to assert the existence and say that there is an entity that is the word of God is not a valid argument, as the word of God was written by men and there is no evidence that God inspired the writing of men. On the contrary, everything suggests that the scriptures are the work of men only. The two key tests are:
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were written by men and not God;
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by virtue of the perfection of creation and its timeless essence, God can not be addressed at a particular moment in history to change its course in any way.
Point (1) makes us reflect on the fact that often contradict the claims of Christianity means to prove the obvious. Specifically, you have to show that some texts produced by some men were just written by men, not by a divine entity that contradictory in some way unknown to them has "inspired". So, if the texts were written by A, and we can not verify that A is in no way been influenced by a deity, these texts must have been written by A itself and its own without the intervention of other bodies.
Some may argue that the influence is obvious in the sanctity of the divine messages that contain these records. This is true of some parts of the Bible (such as those concerning universal love), but false for others. If you are not in bad faith can not pretend not to see: in the sacred texts There are undoubtedly some share inciting phallocentrism, others showing a God belligerent, others show that the vengeful, but then identify it with love. Who reads the Bible can not help but feel bewildered about the true essence of God: these attributes, such as the belligerence towards other peoples, are actually divine? And is typical of the divine make contradictory statements?
The cunning stunt of the theologian notes that
c1) the parties objectively best sacred texts can be attributed the influence of the deity, while bad ones are caused by the unfortunate intervention of man, which is inevitably the slave of the values \u200b\u200bof the time in which they live.
likely would be more honest and say that the authors of sacred texts, while being imbued with the values \u200b\u200bof the time in which they lived, they did carry a revolutionary message in that historical moment, as it happens from time to time. But to refute conclusively (c1) be the point (2). Given that "inspire the sacred text" means doing something at a particular moment in history, the argument can be carried out as follows:
a) God is eternal, therefore out of time;
b) God created all things according to his will, as established by the Christian dogmas;
c) the will of God is infallible;
then d) everything is created exactly as God wanted it;
it follows that e) God can not and must not intervene in history, because it is outside of time and because all creation is already at his will, as provided in the instant of creation. It would not make sense to act (the will) in history, which is already coinciding with the divine, in order to change it. So what is written in the Bible is the result solely of the intellect and the pen of some men.
From the above, it is clear that the only useful (if you can call it) of Christianity is to provide an easy consolation for earthly ills. But there is another on purely pragmatic than generally is recognized: that of
(MP) training to the community and enforce a certain ethics.
If a person is of violent nature, a Christian education should soothe her, and if anyone has the urge to steal or kill, the Christian precepts should divert him from his wicked purposes.
E 'obvious to anyone that this is not true. Even St. Thomas in the middle of 1200 wrote that those who contravene the laws should be punished:
" ... there are plenty of rebels and those inclined to vice, that can not be easily moved by words, it was necessary to depict them from evil by force and by fear, to quiet the other ... making life [...]."
In Western history examples that demonstrate the falsity of (MP) are almost endless, but perhaps nothing is as eloquent as what happened between 1300 and 1600, the period of maximum activity of the Holy Inquisition tribunal established by the Church of Rome with the aim of suppressing heresy. After the bulls "Super illius specula" of John XXII and "summis desiderantes affectibus" of Innocent VIII, the Church officially recognizes the existence of witchcraft (the first of them in clerical circles was very skeptical about it) and order as demonic practice, allowing you to use the Inquisition any method to convert the alleged followers of Satan.
before mentioning the methods used in those years to the fight against witchcraft, it is worth quoting a passage from the Malleum Maleficarum, which is a kind of witch-hunting manual, written by Kramer and Sprenger, two Dominican active in Central and inquisitors of 1400. The passage is significant with regard to the Christian concept of the woman at the time:
" ... women are more inclined to believe, and the devil, which seek primarily to corrupt the faith, the more easily able to attack them. Saith the Preacher: who's heart is easy to trust even more light will fall down. [...]
... have the lewd language and can not keep them hidden from other women like the bad things they have learned, and when you do not have enough forces to take revenge, easily try to get revenge with a stench of evil [...]
The woman, bad by nature, falls in early doubts about faith, quickly denied the faith itself, and this is the real basis of evil. Since then, the second faculty of the soul, that is the will, the woman, when taken by hatred of someone who loved the first, burning with anger and impatience, and shake, and boil the sea boils like .. . it all depends on carnal lust, which in women is insatiable, to busy themselves with the demons in order to satisfy their lust. "
not surprising that most of the victims of the Inquisition were women.
was easy to drag someone to court inquisitorial: village often had only a rumor or accusation of one man to justify the torture of an ill-fated.
Torture was no doubt intended to extort a confession of heresy, but frequently, if not in all cases, it served mainly to satisfy the libido sadistic inquisitors' (sadism is a manifestation of deviant sexuality that is pleasure from causing pain and humiliation in another subject). These figures were reached in the years in which they operated, power and tremendous influence, thanks to the terrific fame who had deservedly earned. We know that Don Francisco Tirregon, one of the three inquisitors of Aragon, under the pretext of heresy was to kidnap teenage girls to his men, bent their will by showing the instruments of torture and abuse them. When the French took Aragon and liberated the prisoners of the Inquisition, they were surprised to see, among those, about sixty young and beautiful girls. One of them said that:
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each of the three interrogators had for years a group of kidnapped girls, each locked in a room with no possibility of escape;
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the inquisitor to which they belonged regularly abused each of them, and who became pregnant and give birth without being deprived of the child, who vanished into thin air;
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each year, 6 or 7 girls were replaced by new recruits (do not know if they were killed or removed).
The methods of torture, and the arrangements that were taking an almost scientific precision. In order to continue the torture, he was always careful not to kill the tortured, even lending him aid when he suffered injuries that could be fatal. The methods used were mainly three:
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the shakes: the victim's wrists were tied with a rope passed through a pulley hanging from the ceiling, and ankles with a rope attached to a large weight. By pulling the rope through the pulley, the man was lifted from the ground with all the weight attached to the ankles, the rope was suddenly gone and then taken before the weight touches the ground. The result was that the body was literally stretched due to the combined action of the rope, thereby imparting a force on the wrist opposite to the motion, blocking the free fall, and the weight attached to the ankles, being in free fall, pulled to down. In most cases were found dislocation and loss of consciousness;
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the stand: he was a machine which was used to pull the limbs of a man to dislocate or even tears;
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water torture: it is known in several variants, but the purpose that unites them is to provoke a strong sense of suffocation, with subsequent collapse of the capillaries in the effort to breathe. One of these variants of the heretic was to plug the nose and make him drink water in large quantities.
If these means, though not invented, they were used largely by Christian scholars, it means that Christianity has not softened in any way out the most visceral and violent men that has taken root. A NZI, generalizing it can be said that not only is Christianity not improve man, but where the power meets a perverse will, justify inhumane acts through the conviction of possessing the Truth.
not a bad person does not operate if evil is not a Christian, but Christianity can serve as an alibi, as has already happened. The purpose of the Inquisition was to eradicate heresy, and then demonic evil, and to fight the evil they perpetrated horrors difficult to imagine (in Nazi Germany, evil was embodied by the Jews, and Communist Russia, by landowners and supporters of the capitalist model, in both cases, the killings were necessary as a struggle against evil). The key point of the matter is, however, this: Christianity itself is not a message of violence, but in the mind of a fanatic the execution of an absolute ideal as the Christian can justify the use of any means. E 'the same mechanism by which, for example, an Islamic fundamentalist believes right to kill people belonging to different cultural systems from your . Ultimately, the evils perpetrated in the name of religion can not be attributed to religion, but it provides the motive of action of the fanatic.
L theories and dogmatic, absolute truth would cause unique all-encompassing reality, which do not allow revisions and dissident voices, and the conviction of their truth becomes a license to act in any way the particular (concrete) in the name of the absolute (which may be God or any ideal).
In response to (MP), we can say with certainty that religion not only is of no practical utility, as fails to inhibit, as it proposes to do, not even the most destructive side of man, but is also bad because it is ideological in the sense of vision sole and absolute reality.
A quest to design culturally we must oppose a dictatorship individualistic thought which is capable of continuous movement, or which is able to problematize and transform itself, and at the same time be open to encounter mutual with other models of thought, which is, after all, the right mindset of those who wants to put out to try, with passion and honesty, his truth. Reciprocity and openness to the problematic nature are qualities that are lacking in any religion, which instead arises with a view to otherness hierarchical, closed and dogmatic, and if the only truth can not be discussed and is written in the dogmas, then there is nothing you can do but accept it or fight it in its entirety. Choose to fight it is the first step to confront freely and individually with the big questions that surround the life of each one, choose to fight it means to regain possession of the great themes of the man who for too long been monopolized by the Christian doctors. And d oppose the dogma must be the first step towards the construction of many new ways and meanings.
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