In a society where everything is based on power, strength, efficiency, in which our fates are left in the hands of men with "strong and silent, "the experts (super-men of the bureaucracy), in a society in fact, increasingly tired of his celebratory rituals, prosperity and happiness can be purchased at the supermarket, more and more full of men and women alone and desperate, they sound like water gushing words of Chesterton on the value of man "real", not that of coated papers, but the man with his qualities and its inevitable flaws and limitations.
The world bet on super-man, Christ has bet on weakness of humanity.
Let's enjoy this breath of hope!
" the adorable and precious thing in our eyes is the man, the old man fighting, weak, dissolute and respectable drinking beer and invents think. And things are based on this creature forever, and things based on the imagination of the Superman died with dying civilizations which alone created them. In a symbolic moment when Christ founded His great society, chose as the cornerstone not brilliant Paul nor the mystic John, but a arruffone, a snob, a coward, in a word: a man. And upon this rock He built His Church, to which the gates of hell have not prevailed. All empires and the kingdoms have failed because of this perennial weakness innate, or that were founded by strong men and strong men. But this one thing, the historic Christian Church, was founded on a weak man and for that reason it is indestructible. Why no chain is stronger than its weakest link. "(GK Chesterton, Heretics, ed. Lindau, p.50)
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