Philosophically and religiously I believe that Europe as a whole, has been losing the minimum of spirituality that was highly praised by the Enlightenment of the XVIII century. Back then philosophers like Voltaire or Kant still had the awareness of the necessity of a moral and philosophical order...that Deists used to call God.
Kant used to say: Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
As in nowadays I believe that Europe has lost that decency and that desire to implement the moral law, and universal justice. Why? Because science and medicine have convinced us that we are all eternal. And that is why you see so many old people who are terrified of getting ill. Because they are not prepared to death, neither philosophically, nor religiously.
The awareness (or rather the delusion) of being eternal (that is what Heidegger would have called the non-existence because we are mortals, we are not immortals) pushes people to become a-religious. Or atheists.
I really dislike whenever someone tells my country is a very religious country. Some sort of Catholiland. No...it is not. It is made up of nominal Catholics who go to Church just to show off and to brag about their latest fashionable dress, or just to meet people.
They have no idea what God is. The great majority of the youngest generations are atheists.
But some blame the public school for pushing students to be rationalists, for public school is supposedly secular.
But religious education is entrusted to households, not to the secular State and its apparatuses.
So I do think mine is an atheistic country. De facto atheistic and nominally religious.
The fear of God has disappeared...which is supposed to be the seventh gift of the Holy Spirit.
Kant used to say: Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
As in nowadays I believe that Europe has lost that decency and that desire to implement the moral law, and universal justice. Why? Because science and medicine have convinced us that we are all eternal. And that is why you see so many old people who are terrified of getting ill. Because they are not prepared to death, neither philosophically, nor religiously.
The awareness (or rather the delusion) of being eternal (that is what Heidegger would have called the non-existence because we are mortals, we are not immortals) pushes people to become a-religious. Or atheists.
I really dislike whenever someone tells my country is a very religious country. Some sort of Catholiland. No...it is not. It is made up of nominal Catholics who go to Church just to show off and to brag about their latest fashionable dress, or just to meet people.
They have no idea what God is. The great majority of the youngest generations are atheists.
But some blame the public school for pushing students to be rationalists, for public school is supposedly secular.
But religious education is entrusted to households, not to the secular State and its apparatuses.
So I do think mine is an atheistic country. De facto atheistic and nominally religious.
The fear of God has disappeared...which is supposed to be the seventh gift of the Holy Spirit.
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