Here is the introduction of Dom Pedro Casaldaliga ...
fraternal way of introduction
What God? What religion?
Our Agenda is addressing major issues, year after year. Human topical issues. Thinking about life, assuming that reality challenges us. Hot Topic really is the religion ; really matter most: God. Someone
doubt the topicality of this issue, thinking in certain areas in the first
world to which God and religion "and were". In fact, there is the puzzling contradiction of seeing and feeling more religious than ever, and more disbelief than ever too, with all the ambiguities and all opportunities.
The phenomenon of globalization waves also specifically the issue because migrant populations, going "paperless" in the first world do not fall without God, carry with them the God of their lives, the lives of the ancestors. Today, cultures and religions, known before only for a few readings or images from television, are living and conflict in families, streets, schools, work, politics of all countries. Nietzsche ultimately earned peace in their desperate search for, and has modified its categorical axiom turns out that God is not dead.
The problem is knowing that God speaks. Also know clearly what we mean by religion and how we think religion should be a truly liberated and liberating.
Pondering these two questions, "What God, What Religion?" responses are
the most serious and most perplexing. Speaking of God, precisely, a friend backwoods of our region, so remote from metaphysical categories, responded with the greatest simplicity and devotion, "God is a good man ." The prophet Hosea put into the mouth of God (the Lord God) is categorical identification, no reply possible, " I am God, and not a man " (I, 11, 9). The writer Saramago, Nobel Prize for Literature, assumed and militant atheist, but that makes religion frequent subject of his writings, has given us a poetic and contemplative definition of God: "God is silence of the universe and man's cry that gives meaning to the silence ." Another Nobel Prize, the English poet Juan Ramon Jimenez, said that the question of faith is not against God but for God. Our liberation theologians remind us that the opposite of faith is not doubt, but fear (fear of God often.) What God, what religion, what salvation ... I pondered a neighboring Pentecostal " The good ones are saved because good and bad also saved, because God is good and forgiving . "
This agenda, which has cost many exchanges on the subject and the implications that brings the theme, offers a fairly comprehensive list of issues. The history of religions and atheism or unbelief. The difference and complementarity between spirituality and religion. The religion that encourages and justifies war. Spiritualism, fundamentalism, alienation, and persistent denounced many times yesterday and today. The need for inter-religious dialogue.
The macro-. The sacredness of power, profit and consumerism. The fall, then, old gods replaced by new gods. The need, the thirst for life, in response to questions over the human heart. The search for personal meaning for life and human society as a whole.
We are coming, after wars and inquisitions, to ask whether a true religion can be attacked, shut down, forcing a asentimento of faith (which is free, matter of the heart, search your entire life, and all a story.) All religions can be true and they can all hold simultaneously much falsehood. (It is appreciated the statement of Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran , President of the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue, which states that " all religions are equal in dignity and importance ).
has tended to do a tripartite scheme for classifying the basic characteristics of religion according to cultures and eras. The indigenous African religions would religions of Nature. Today, of course, that nature would be seen and venerated ecologically. Eastern religions would be the religions of Interiority, contemplative even free. And the Judeo-Christian religions would be the religions of history, Love, Justice, prophecy, politics.
course, all religions are the search for God, God's host, waiting for God. Of a God who is always in search of us, welcoming us, and revealing, every day, at any angle of Human Geography. No religion has exclusive rights that all names God who forgives and saves it is the Love
The Agenda is not to be proselytizing and wants to encourage all contributors humanizadotas wealth religions. No cross and no supermarkets. Allowing God to dialogue with God, the God of the human family and the entire Universe. Always thinking of holistic and personalized. God is not a concept, not a dogma, it is more than a cause. How does God speak? What God do we dream? Santa Teresa de Avila has that world-famous little poem that says: God alone suffices .
With affection I respectfully say to the great Teresa: "God alone suffices" Teresa, / wherever that God / that He is and all and all / in communion .
Pedro Casaldaliga
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