For Monsignor Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel
SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, Saturday, October 30, 2010 (ZENIT.org) .- Here is the article you wrote Monsignor Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel, Bishop of San Cristobal de Las Casas, entitled "Mute the voice of religion. "
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We are engaged in a repetitive series of discussions on the role of religion in public life, politics and the economy, legislative and judicial fields, in education and in the media. There are frequent accusations of wanting to impose our church dogmas and rules the country, of trying to intervene in political affairs, of violating the secular state, not to respect the separation of Church and State, and remind us what was said by Jesus that "unto Caesar what is Caesar's and unto God what is God's" as if they mattered much the Word of God, or as if we were disobedient to the divine command, or as if we were to leave inactive and quiet the claim of some caesars current (rulers, political leaders and legislators) to be believed gods before whom all must bow the knee. They are the first not to give God what is God's.
More often the position of those who continue to defend their faith is for your life private and has nothing to do with the exercise of public functions. I say with real conviction, as if they know very thoroughly which means the Christian faith that can not be constrained in the inner circle of awareness and home, but encompasses all life, all criteria and all behaviors . This seems rather the result of religious ignorance or convenience electioneering. JUDGE
well known in his speech to the British Parliament, Pope Benedict XVI said: "The world of reason and the world of faith-the world of secular rationality and the world of religious beliefs, need each other and should not be afraid to engage in deep and ongoing dialogue for the sake of our civilization.
In other words, religion is not a problem that legislators must solve, but a vital contribution to the national debate. From this point of view, I can not but express my concern at the increasing marginalization of religion, especially Christianity, in some parts, even in nations that place a strong emphasis on tolerance. There are some who want the voice of religion be silenced, or at least be relegated to the purely private sphere. There are those who wield the public celebration of holidays like Christmas should be deleted according to the questionable belief that it offend members of other religions or none. Still others argue, paradoxically, with the intent to eliminate discrimination, that Christians played a public role should be asked at times to act against their conscience. These are worrying signs of a failure to appreciate not only the rights of believers to freedom of conscience and religious freedom but also the legitimate role of religion in public life. I would like to invite all of you, therefore, in their respective areas of influence, to seek ways to promote and encourage dialogue between faith and reason in all spheres of national life "(17-IX-2010).
And in his meeting with Queen Elizabeth II, said: "In reflecting on the sobering lessons of the twentieth century atheist extremism will never forget how the exclusion of God, religion and virtue in public life, ultimately leads to biased view of man and society and, therefore, a restricted view of the person and his destiny "(16-IX-2010). ACT
encourage those with social and political responsibilities, if recognized believers in Christ who are closest to Him now, and are not left with Baptism and First Communion perhaps as children. Who know and interact more with him He is not enemy but friend, way, truth, light and life. Do not hide their belief, but prove them, not only participating in Sunday Mass and other rites, but mostly putting social justice, loving above all the truth, overcoming corruption in dialogue with those who think differently, to reach agreements consensual, loving and serving the poor.
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