On June 18, dies poet José Saramago, the Portuguese journalist and playwright, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998.
Much has been said of this writer, loved or hated, with a style, a writing that is as a flow of love that comes from the brain, the heart has formed in his throat burst, and tears is on her paper. An awkward, in exile in the Canary Islands for his thoughts and writings, for being an atheist, communist, visionary and "heretic." Broke away from the government of his country in 1991 when he published "The Gospel According to Jesus", sparking a huge controversy.
aftermath of death, comes the sentence of forgiveness and Christian charity! L 'Osservatore Romano , however, requires "a man and an intellectual of no admission metaphysics, nailed to the last in his stubborn belief in historical materialism, Marxism alias. Autocollocatosi clearly on the side of the evangelical cornfield weeds, declared sleepless at the thought of the Crusades or the Inquisition, forgetting the memory of the gulag, the "purges" of genocide, cultural and religious samizdat. " Then again, "with regard to religion, as it has been hooked ever his mind by a destabilizing and a trivialization of the sacred materialism libertarian that the more advanced in years the more it intensifies. Saramago did not ever lack the support of a discouraging simplistic theological: if God is the source of all, He is the cause of any effect and the effect of each case. " In conclusion, "a populist extremist like him, who had taken charge of it, the evil in the world, should first invest the problem all wrong human structures, from historical and socio-economic policies, however, instead of jumping to abhorred metaphysical and blame, too great and apart from anything else, a God in whom he had never believed, because of His omnipotence, His omniscience, His all-seeing. " The 'Future then signed by the commentator Fulvio Panzeri, added: "Saramago is a writer greatly overestimated in an exaggerated way in Italy, one of those writers who, to be the center of media attention and to divert the proceedings from insignificant quality of their work, they love to get through the center of controversy and media attacks, which won a Nobel Prize in 1998 for his most controversial positions for the actual size of his work. With his novels, the writer wanted above all to lead a staff and blasphemous campaign against the Christian and Catholic tradition, for example by taking bold and broad freedom to describe Jesus as a normal person, or telling the invention without miracles and without faith. His only words were often ugly words, without history. "
I'm just his religious-themed essays to hit with scorn the wrath of the Church, his rereading "apocryphal" Gospel of the figure shows a little too human and the deity who taught us to love and idolize. Or as one of his last essays that comes from reading the Old Testament, Cain.
Saramago's Jesus is a real person with their own experience of human emotions, love, passion and guilt. A novel that leaves little room for passion, and many more revealing childhood historical truths always distorted, forgotten or hidden from the canonical Gospel. With Jesus as a man with a God who deceives, at the same time loves and hates men, with a Devil compassionate lover of Christ to Mary Magdalene. In short, Saramago writes of a normal man who loves a love divine.
In a 'Saramago interview he declared that "religion and transcendence are issues with which they have to do all the people, not restricted only to some, and so I think as a writer, dealing of people's lives, I am in my turn to these issues that have to do with the size of the transcendent. On the other hand, as far as my relationship with religion are, say, an observer not a believer, I can not deny that a Christian mentality, not an animist or Islamic or Buddhist, or that of any other religion. Mentally I am a Christian, my mentality is a Christian, and then to this title and having to think I can take as a writer of issues that should concern me but apparently not that from the point of view in which every time I ask myself are so because of my John Paul II. "
The Church has taught us to accept and believe in a God who became man, but it was divine. He asked the unconditional faith in a higher plan of which we are a part. There taught a God made man with a destiny, and spent a burden for our salvation, to which we owe a debt extinguished. He taught us his divine compassion for us that we are the flock, his mission of salvation of humanity. In this we must believe and have faith.
But faith is blind, unconditional (for those who have it, and rightly so) and nothing should scratch it. The culture and the rationality of continuing concern in the church that has always tried to suffocate canonize. In the western church and the idol matter does not accept, accept, never the flesh of our Pasolini's Christ, the husband of a prostitute, the blasphemer of the system, the strategist who infiltrates the virus of faith, decostruttore dogmas, the leader of a conqueror who marries any other reasons, the mathematician who puts himself as a useful basis to any calculation, the destroyer of the niches.
Believers must accept what the church teaches us, and you are free to join or not this design.
accuses the Vatican of blasphemy and Nobel trivialization of the sacred, of anti-religious ideologies. As for obstinacy.
But Saramago does not need to be defended, his works are carved in the Enlightenment culture of this century and will not scratch anything
short, dies José Saramago, the man who wrote of the men, who knew his work with the lead people use of reason and confrontation. Who taught the new faith and that his hand has to be evangelized and saved those who saw in him a light of salvation.
Morland
Morland, "Dead and the next day condemned" CircÓs, 07/07/2010
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