E 'hit to Pope Benedict XVI at La Sapienza University of Rome is now the turn of the Cardinal of Madrid.
less "tolerant" (only with itself) prevent, by force, that they may hear voices in dissonance with its "weak thought" in a continent without roots, and Orman ready to surrender civil and cultural.
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SPAIN The Cardinal "gagged" on University
09/12/2010 - It had to take a lesson. Instead, the December 1st few students have prevented the Archbishop Rouco Varela speaking universities. With the consent of the Government ... (From páginasdigital.es)
Chesterton would have been very clear: he proposed that, to prevent theft, you give money to the thieves, in quantity, and thus solve most crimes against property. The devolved government in Madrid, Amparo Valcarce, has transformed what was only an irony of the author of Napoleon of Notting Hill in a philosophy of security. As a small group of students did not want the Cardinal Rouco is recasse Autonomous University of Madrid to hold a conference, stated that the conference was canceled. Rouco and could not speak.
In reality, this solution is the foundation of an ancient perversion of democracy: freedom is suppressed, and this will enhance security. The state abdicated one of its key functions and gives reason for the enemies of freedom. The aggravating factor is that all this occurs in an area such as the University, which is calling for the space of reason, dialogue and the search for truth. For some 'time in this part of the University of Madrid have turned into a place dominated by intolerance. Groups shots of radical students, backed by a professor stagnated sessantottino intransigence, boycott any public event that does not fall within certain patterns progressives. The ideology turns into violence.
The University should open up spaces of freedom. But it is a dynamic ideology, albeit generated by "good ideology," which reaches that goal. Autonomous University Cardinal Rouco was talking about Christianity. And Christianity, where he has remained faithful to its origins, was able to break this dialectic, already present during the Roman Empire. Created spaces of freedom that have benefited everyone, even his enemies. And he did so by proposing that freshness, that desire to live 2000 years ago that shook a handful of fishermen of Galilee. The claim to silence Christians is quite old, is the claim of power. The Sanhedrin had already and Emperors, el'hanno inherited the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. And the more intense was the claim to silence them, the more you spread the good life of those who follow Christ. This claim has made them more aware of their value.
It continues. Today they have pretended to gag a successor of the apostles, but the several hundred students and faculty who wanted to listen to now have a deeper reason, most full of affection, to propose to everyone, even those who demonstrated against the Cardinal, which for them is essential. Today the sky is clear, it is now apparent that the University, to be free, needs that Christianity is not presented as a set of ideas or values, but as an event is surprising because it makes life great. The authorities have not fulfilled their task, but will not prevent that there are free men who freely acknowledges the convenience of human faith. This is the task of Christians.
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