Who wants and who wants to down ... J
gymnastics aside, is one of those chores that warm the hearts, because going to touch our sense of belonging - to a certain people, ... to a certain ideology - in other words our sense of identity. Religious against secular, right against left, progressives against traditionalists, Italians against foreigners. But Milan against Juventus, pacifists against warmongers, boys against girls, against carnivorous vegetarians ... The list of opposites can go on forever, given that our nature as embodied beings in the field we tend to think in dualistic terms. From our exit from Eden, our mind is accustomed to divide everything into two groups: high / low, hot / cold, right / wrong, good / bad, moral / immoral. And on membership to an array rather than to another base our perception of ourselves. We arrive at the point defined by opposition: "I'm non-conformist, anti-clerical, anti-technological." 'S understandable, then, that when someone goes to touch a symbol of the group that I "decided" to belong, I feel threatened in my underwear. And what comes out the 'pride, which is nothing if not the fear of being overwhelmed, canceled the other.
And here I would be the first consideration ... How much time for people to understand that the vision of black and white can and should be overcome as the cause of all conflicts? And I mean between people, between those parties, ... those among religions but also between individuals, and even those taking place within each individual! ... Up to that divide, to which separate, until - in essence - we can judge ... no wonder there is war, that there is disharmony, there is hate, and even disease. When our identity is built on the strength of being, which is unique and known to contain in itself all the opposites, then we will not need to defend ourselves, to scream, to scandalize. We will not need either to remove a symbol, nor to impose it.
Therefore I ask: what must be fragile, tenuous, the convictions of those who say that a sign hung damages their freedom to educate their children in - in fact - their beliefs?!
Notwithstanding the foregoing, and thus avoiding any kind of controversy, I had my way, I would leave it where the crucifix. Do not call myself Catholic and even anti-Catholic. But the second point is this: Christ is not a symbol of the Catholic Church, is a symbol of humanity and that - at least that - we all belong ... or not?
Jesus Christ is the highest fulfillment, a realization that total to go to coincide with the divine. And though aware that it is not a buzzword ... I just stated that this imbalance can be the ultimate goal of all human existence. It is also independent of us, as the soul - the piece of God that each of us is - evolves naturally in this direction.
How can a symbol of all offending someone?
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