Francis Agnoli
Review and refutation of some blatantly false claim of an amateur who ventures in areas where jurisdiction.
Review and refutation of some blatantly false claim of an amateur who ventures in areas where jurisdiction.
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[From the 'helm' No 86, September-October 2009]
Battleship Republic of the daily media continues to churn through its newspapers, books and pamphlets against the Church. It seems to feel a moral duty unstoppable. After the investigation of alleged Curzio Maltese, La begging, full of inaccuracies and slander, have come the powerful and inconclusive The church no, the Vatican correspondent Marco Politi (with a preface by Emma Bonino), and the nineteenth-century pamphlet Claudia Rendina, Holy caste of the Church, focusing on all the evils real or suspected of clerics and believers in general.
But above all, among the most aggressive and most successful works, as a result, there are the three books of Conrad Augias: Jesus Inquest, Inquiry into Christianity, and, finally, dispute about God, a dialogue for two voices with Vito Mancuso . Augias, it should be remembered, is also a TV presenter, a time known to the general public. Clearly took the opportunity to throw himself headlong in fields that do not knows and admits that, en passant, to be a true amateur. This does not stop to offer his opinions, unfounded, as the well-established truth. In reality, always behind his reconstructions, there is the ideology, the injury of those who believe that man is comparable to a random cluster of atoms, aimless and without meaning. Interesting, to understand his anthropological vision, two statements made in the dispute about God first compares the soul to a future computer, nothing more, 'able to express feelings and to draw on their own forms of self-learning "(p. 123), while the second compares man to a monkey, wanting to deduce the negation of the existence of God and the immortal soul: "One time at the zoo, I felt a very strong temptation to embrace the poor body hairy, lewd, unaware of an ape, and he embraced me, this act of nullifying clumsy brotherhood million years that separate us "(p. 242).
In light of these statements can understand why, beyond its book production, Augias devotes many of his answers on the Republic, the page of the readers, to issues of bioethics, with drawn sword defending abortion, contraception, euthanasia, etc. 486 Ru . with dull bitterness, with real hatred towards the position of Catholics, that to him, undemocratic, they are always and invariably "intolerable."
Augias The idea, in fact, is that in a democracy there can be "non-negotiable principles" which do not change, that can not be violated by anyone. The reason is not given understand, since the entire history of the twentieth century, with its wars, its camps, the gulag and the Laogai, shows just how the intangible values \u200b\u200bare essential to prevent the law, all'auctoritas to become tyrannical, dictatorial and prevaricating. Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot, so to speak, did not recognize non-negotiable values, and even spiritual values: the result was seen.
Augias, he said, contrasts with the mainly Catholic thought in the field of bioethics, as it decided to affirm the absolute ability of each individual self-determination, as was the master of life, themselves and others. On March 10, 2006 the Republic had to write to his manager: "I'm going to buy the kit of the" Good Death "for sale in Brussels and I think also in the Netherlands. The price is low, less than a hundred euro. There is awareness in suicide responsibly exercised a trace of the old Roman virtues. The desire to be masters of themselves, to say farewell to the life without having to feel ashamed. "
back to his books on Christianity, Augias offers its truth "irrefutable" Jesus would never proclaimed and God would have created a Church, but only as a "messianic community ',' eschatological reality," the "Day of Judgement "! After similar statements grotesque, Augias - deliberately omitting talk about the first 300 years of popes, priests and laymen, were killed in the Roman amphitheatres, burned in Nero's gardens, looted their belongings and their property, just to keep their faith - says that the growth of Christianity was due mainly to the intervention of the emperor Constantine. He, on the other hand, would become only self-interest, to the Catholic religion an instrument of power, finding just the alliance of an institution, the Church in fact, always ready to do its dirty political and economic interests. As always Augias offers all its eccentricity as an irrefutable dogma, reinforced, he said, by the unanimous opinion of unspecified "historical". On the one hand that there would be Catholics, foolish and gullible, more willing to go behind the stories of conversions, and on the other hand those who have the courage to face up to reality.
The truth is completely different. Anyone who wants can simply browse the current historiography, largely secular, on Constantine. You will see how you can sell smoke, to give arguments that are not detected at all, with the greatest ease. To support the veracity of the conversion of chops, the gradual process of approaching true that this man did to the religion of Christ, are all the greatest connoisseurs of the time. I cite only Guido Clemente, professor of Roman history at the University of Florence, author of A Guide to Roman History (Knopf); Augustus Fraser, professor of economic and social history of the ancient world of Rome La Sapienza, author of The Conversion . From Rome to Christian Rome (Laterza), Arnaldo Marcone professor of Roman History at the University of Udine and the author of Pagan and Christian. The Death and Life of Constantine (Laterza), Robin Lane Fox, a professor of Ancient History at New College, Oxford, author of Pagans and Christians (Yale University Press), and many other titles scholars of the ancient world, as Andrew Alföldi, Franchi de 'Cavalieri, Norman Baynes, Marta Sordi, Klaus Bringmann ... Among them only to point out, per mancanza di spazio, il grande archeologo Paul Veyne, di formazione laica e comunista. Veyne sostiene con sicurezza l’autenticità della conversione di Costantino, ricordando, con J.B. Bury, che la sua «rivoluzione fu forse l’atto più audace mai commesso da un autocrate in spregio alla grande maggioranza dei suoi sudditi». È innegabile, infatti, che all’epoca di questo imperatore, che pose fine alle persecuzioni dei cristiani, essi non erano per nulla appetibili come forza politica e sociale: costituivano solo il 5—10 % della popolazione, mentre Senato, aristocrazia romana ed esercito erano in stragrande maggioranza pagani. Il cristianesimo, continua Veyne, si impose allora «perché offriva qualcosa different and new, "because it was" religion of love ", not because of the strength and power.
The same carelessness and malice with which liquid Augias Constantine also characterizes most of his other arguments, when incorrectly states that the works of Darwin were condemned by the Church when copying whole passages of EO Wilson, taken from the network, not to mention the source claiming to be his, when hastily Eluana defines a "living corpse" when placing the philosopher Spinoza and Freud among the great scientists and tells them that the Church was excommunicated, when he explains that the Church, which created the institution hospital, would hindered the use of painkillers for a macabre taste of the pain [...]. Again, this is all nonsense with the air of someone who knows a lot. And the reader can not naive to believe that well-known face and persuasive ...
Bibliography
Francis Agnoli, because we can not be atheists. The failure of the ideology that has rejected God, Piemme, 2009.
Veyne Paul, When Europe became Christian, Garzanti, 2008. Marco
Fasol, The Gospel of Judas, Faith & Culture, 2007. ©
the helm
http://www.iltimone.org/
[From the 'helm' No 86, September-October 2009]
Battleship Republic of the daily media continues to churn through its newspapers, books and pamphlets against the Church. It seems to feel a moral duty unstoppable. After the investigation of alleged Curzio Maltese, La begging, full of inaccuracies and slander, have come the powerful and inconclusive The church no, the Vatican correspondent Marco Politi (with a preface by Emma Bonino), and the nineteenth-century pamphlet Claudia Rendina, Holy caste of the Church, focusing on all the evils real or suspected of clerics and believers in general.
But above all, among the most aggressive and most successful works, as a result, there are the three books of Conrad Augias: Jesus Inquest, Inquiry into Christianity, and, finally, dispute about God, a dialogue for two voices with Vito Mancuso . Augias, it should be remembered, is also a TV presenter, a time known to the general public. Clearly took the opportunity to throw himself headlong in fields that do not knows and admits that, en passant, to be a true amateur. This does not stop to offer his opinions, unfounded, as the well-established truth. In reality, always behind his reconstructions, there is the ideology, the injury of those who believe that man is comparable to a random cluster of atoms, aimless and without meaning. Interesting, to understand his anthropological vision, two statements made in the dispute about God first compares the soul to a future computer, nothing more, 'able to express feelings and to draw on their own forms of self-learning "(p. 123), while the second compares man to a monkey, wanting to deduce the negation of the existence of God and the immortal soul: "One time at the zoo, I felt a very strong temptation to embrace the poor body hairy, lewd, unaware of an ape, and he embraced me, this act of nullifying clumsy brotherhood million years that separate us "(p. 242).
In light of these statements can understand why, beyond its book production, Augias devotes many of his answers on the Republic, the page of the readers, to issues of bioethics, with drawn sword defending abortion, contraception, euthanasia, etc. 486 Ru . with dull bitterness, with real hatred towards the position of Catholics, that to him, undemocratic, they are always and invariably "intolerable."
Augias The idea, in fact, is that in a democracy there can be "non-negotiable principles" which do not change, that can not be violated by anyone. The reason is not given understand, since the entire history of the twentieth century, with its wars, its camps, the gulag and the Laogai, shows just how the intangible values \u200b\u200bare essential to prevent the law, all'auctoritas to become tyrannical, dictatorial and prevaricating. Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot, so to speak, did not recognize non-negotiable values, and even spiritual values: the result was seen.
Augias, he said, contrasts with the mainly Catholic thought in the field of bioethics, as it decided to affirm the absolute ability of each individual self-determination, as was the master of life, themselves and others. On March 10, 2006 the Republic had to write to his manager: "I'm going to buy the kit of the" Good Death "for sale in Brussels and I think also in the Netherlands. The price is low, less than a hundred euro. There is awareness in suicide responsibly exercised a trace of the old Roman virtues. The desire to be masters of themselves, to say farewell to the life without having to feel ashamed. "
back to his books on Christianity, Augias offers its truth "irrefutable" Jesus would never proclaimed and God would have created a Church, but only as a "messianic community ',' eschatological reality," the "Day of Judgement "! After similar statements grotesque, Augias - deliberately omitting talk about the first 300 years of popes, priests and laymen, were killed in the Roman amphitheatres, burned in Nero's gardens, looted their belongings and their property, just to keep their faith - says that the growth of Christianity was due mainly to the intervention of the emperor Constantine. He, on the other hand, would become only self-interest, to the Catholic religion an instrument of power, finding just the alliance of an institution, the Church in fact, always ready to do its dirty political and economic interests. As always Augias offers all its eccentricity as an irrefutable dogma, reinforced, he said, by the unanimous opinion of unspecified "historical". On the one hand that there would be Catholics, foolish and gullible, more willing to go behind the stories of conversions, and on the other hand those who have the courage to face up to reality.
The truth is completely different. Anyone who wants can simply browse the current historiography, largely secular, on Constantine. You will see how you can sell smoke, to give arguments that are not detected at all, with the greatest ease. To support the veracity of the conversion of chops, the gradual process of approaching true that this man did to the religion of Christ, are all the greatest connoisseurs of the time. I cite only Guido Clemente, professor of Roman history at the University of Florence, author of A Guide to Roman History (Knopf); Augustus Fraser, professor of economic and social history of the ancient world of Rome La Sapienza, author of The Conversion . From Rome to Christian Rome (Laterza), Arnaldo Marcone professor of Roman History at the University of Udine and the author of Pagan and Christian. The Death and Life of Constantine (Laterza), Robin Lane Fox, a professor of Ancient History at New College, Oxford, author of Pagans and Christians (Yale University Press), and many other titles scholars of the ancient world, as Andrew Alföldi, Franchi de 'Cavalieri, Norman Baynes, Marta Sordi, Klaus Bringmann ... Among them only to point out, per mancanza di spazio, il grande archeologo Paul Veyne, di formazione laica e comunista. Veyne sostiene con sicurezza l’autenticità della conversione di Costantino, ricordando, con J.B. Bury, che la sua «rivoluzione fu forse l’atto più audace mai commesso da un autocrate in spregio alla grande maggioranza dei suoi sudditi». È innegabile, infatti, che all’epoca di questo imperatore, che pose fine alle persecuzioni dei cristiani, essi non erano per nulla appetibili come forza politica e sociale: costituivano solo il 5—10 % della popolazione, mentre Senato, aristocrazia romana ed esercito erano in stragrande maggioranza pagani. Il cristianesimo, continua Veyne, si impose allora «perché offriva qualcosa different and new, "because it was" religion of love ", not because of the strength and power.
The same carelessness and malice with which liquid Augias Constantine also characterizes most of his other arguments, when incorrectly states that the works of Darwin were condemned by the Church when copying whole passages of EO Wilson, taken from the network, not to mention the source claiming to be his, when hastily Eluana defines a "living corpse" when placing the philosopher Spinoza and Freud among the great scientists and tells them that the Church was excommunicated, when he explains that the Church, which created the institution hospital, would hindered the use of painkillers for a macabre taste of the pain [...]. Again, this is all nonsense with the air of someone who knows a lot. And the reader can not naive to believe that well-known face and persuasive ...
Bibliography
Francis Agnoli, because we can not be atheists. The failure of the ideology that has rejected God, Piemme, 2009.
Veyne Paul, When Europe became Christian, Garzanti, 2008. Marco
Fasol, The Gospel of Judas, Faith & Culture, 2007. ©
the helm
http://www.iltimone.org/
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