"We do not choose parties or candidates. But we help the community to discern each. And you can choose those attuned to our convictions - social justice, meeting the needs of the poor, economic justice, promoting development, respect for human dignity andpublic morality. " Dom Odilo Scherer / OESP for 30/04/2012
The words of Cardinal Scherer also reflect my thoughts, so I wrote a topic about it in TheSociocapitalism for a Better World, which I reproduce below:
Ever since man started living in cities and began to use money, came the dilemma between material progress and spiritual progress. In fact, the needs of flesh and spirit are not mutually exclusive, when guided by the ethical, moral and religious balance. For what is the major religion in the world that preaches the misery? Which one is against progress and prosperity, since its fruits are made ethically and properly distributed?
In a sense that prosperity must be based on justice, religious and moral commitment to human dignity. She must serve all alike, if you want to be worthy of the name. So the true human progress is in fact only when there is an appropriate composition between material progress and spiritual progress. Hence the ancient maxim "are spirit body". And this motto applies to society as a whole.
Religions are important in caring for the spiritual and material health of society and the individual himself. In addition to serving as a bridge between the two human progress.
In ancient Egypt during the reign of Pharaoh Aquenaton, was an important historical event involving religion and economics. It all happened when Pharaoh decided to install the first monotheistic religion that has news, ignoring the tradition of the Egyptian people and their ancient gods.
At that time, the priests had a formidable power over the people. The temples were very rich and accumulated treasures and knowledge. They were real "universities" of antiquity, which promoted education, education and knowledge; away to a lucky few who made up the religious elite of the country.
It may seem strange, but the temples also acted as powerful sources of raising money for religious classes. Aquenaton was against this religious group, and set up a religion of one God, who obviously greatly affected the economic interests of the priests, who thereafter became his mortal enemies.
After the death of Aquenaton, the old religious regime of many gods and many privileges to the religious class was restored. So the pharaohs who followed him tried to ban it in history, taking its name from the public monuments. But in vain, for that Pharaoh "sun worshiper" survived the public persecution of the time and today is remembered as the establisher of the first monotheistic religion of humanity.
Pharaoh Aquenaton example illustrates how unproductive, if not impossible to tamper with the traditions and the religion of the people. Thing the Communists tried centuries later in the USSR and also did not work, based on the materialist philosopher Karl Marx, who mentioned with relative property in his book "The Poverty of Philosophy":
"Historical Materialism means at the same time, the material relations are the basis of all relationships that men hold in society and that these relationships as real and material is necessarily transient."
The historical materialism that Marx spoke sought to disqualify the religious power of the Church and the faith that people have in God and other religious entities, which constitute the cultural basis of any people.
The "materialism" radical Marxist was a considerable error that contributed to the sinking of socialism. Yet Marx was brilliant to diagnose the disease of wild capitalism that was installed in society since the industrial revolution English. However he failed miserably as well as prognosis in tackling this disease.
From the Marxist dialectic the world witnessed a brutal persecution of churches and priests by the Communists. And how many did not die because of this pointless "war material"? Worse is that this persecution happens today, the Chinese government.
The same progressive than China implemented the "market socialism" and that made the opening to foreign capital, is still too conservative with respect to religious liberalism.Logic any civilized explain the cruel persecution that Tibetan monks suffer from the Chinese authorities. Unless the strong popular support they have, and so are considered "dangerous." Because Tibet is a "rich mineral province" that China illegally conquered with force of arms, and they "could" encourage revolts against this occupation.
With the fall of the empire atheist Soviet Russia had also its religious liberalism. And he did wisely, for religion is the basis of morality and tradition of a people. How can a people walking confidently to a future without a spiritual light to guide you? A people deprived if his religious faith is an unfortunate and certainly people are enslaved by an elite materialist, whose historical and cultural vision to no more than an inch of his nose.
It follows that the materialistic religious alienation imposed by the Chinese government is not mindless. They arrogate to themselves the owners of wealth provided by the work of the people and do not want to share it with anyone, especially with the Tibetan religious, that accused the Communists of "exploiters of the people."
Despite the fact that religions receiving tithes of the faithful, they are important for the material and spiritual progress of the people. Former Prime Minister Tony Blair of England, understood the importance of faith and religion, so he wrote a great article published in "Global Viewpoint" and in the newspaper "O Estado de Sao Paulo" on December 21, 2008 entitled "The role of faith in the success of globalization."
I personally did not like the unconditional support that Blair gave President George W.Bush at the beginning of the Iraq war, thus endorsing the lie Bush stated categorically: "Iraq possesses weapons of mass destruction and is therefore a great danger for humanity." Well, on behalf of this great lie left the U.S. for war with England, against world opinion and the UN itself.
After all, the article is suitable to give Blair a northern New Religious UN in solving global strategic problems of humanity. Here are some important points of the article by Blair:
"The pressures of globalization lead people to join without knowing the borders, trade, travel, telecommunications and mass migration. When in a world so interdependent religious faith has the power to remove people it becomes a force of disruption and conflict. That sucks for everyone. But such an outcome is particularly bad for those who have religious faith. Meaning that faith is not synonymous with reconciliation, compassion and justice, but of hatred and sectarianism. "
Blair goes further and shows the interdependence between religion and the state economy:
"If we do not find a way to reconcile faith and globalization. The world will not only be a dangerous place, like globalization itself will have much less chance of success in spreading prosperity. "
Blair's article cites other important points about religion and faith, which I think important to describe them. They are:
1 - "Religious faith is very important. Like it or not, billions of people are motivated by them. "2 - "To function effectively, globalization needs values like trust, faith, openness and justice."3 - "The faith and their values are very important. Its integration crucially define the prospects of success, priority, and peaceful coexistence of the global society we live. "
The text of Blair's rather plain, a true north by which the UN and the New sociocapitalismo itself should be oriented with a view to a better world.
The words of Cardinal Scherer also reflect my thoughts, so I wrote a topic about it in TheSociocapitalism for a Better World, which I reproduce below:
Ever since man started living in cities and began to use money, came the dilemma between material progress and spiritual progress. In fact, the needs of flesh and spirit are not mutually exclusive, when guided by the ethical, moral and religious balance. For what is the major religion in the world that preaches the misery? Which one is against progress and prosperity, since its fruits are made ethically and properly distributed?
In a sense that prosperity must be based on justice, religious and moral commitment to human dignity. She must serve all alike, if you want to be worthy of the name. So the true human progress is in fact only when there is an appropriate composition between material progress and spiritual progress. Hence the ancient maxim "are spirit body". And this motto applies to society as a whole.
Religions are important in caring for the spiritual and material health of society and the individual himself. In addition to serving as a bridge between the two human progress.
In ancient Egypt during the reign of Pharaoh Aquenaton, was an important historical event involving religion and economics. It all happened when Pharaoh decided to install the first monotheistic religion that has news, ignoring the tradition of the Egyptian people and their ancient gods.
At that time, the priests had a formidable power over the people. The temples were very rich and accumulated treasures and knowledge. They were real "universities" of antiquity, which promoted education, education and knowledge; away to a lucky few who made up the religious elite of the country.
It may seem strange, but the temples also acted as powerful sources of raising money for religious classes. Aquenaton was against this religious group, and set up a religion of one God, who obviously greatly affected the economic interests of the priests, who thereafter became his mortal enemies.
After the death of Aquenaton, the old religious regime of many gods and many privileges to the religious class was restored. So the pharaohs who followed him tried to ban it in history, taking its name from the public monuments. But in vain, for that Pharaoh "sun worshiper" survived the public persecution of the time and today is remembered as the establisher of the first monotheistic religion of humanity.
Pharaoh Aquenaton example illustrates how unproductive, if not impossible to tamper with the traditions and the religion of the people. Thing the Communists tried centuries later in the USSR and also did not work, based on the materialist philosopher Karl Marx, who mentioned with relative property in his book "The Poverty of Philosophy":
"Historical Materialism means at the same time, the material relations are the basis of all relationships that men hold in society and that these relationships as real and material is necessarily transient."
The historical materialism that Marx spoke sought to disqualify the religious power of the Church and the faith that people have in God and other religious entities, which constitute the cultural basis of any people.
The "materialism" radical Marxist was a considerable error that contributed to the sinking of socialism. Yet Marx was brilliant to diagnose the disease of wild capitalism that was installed in society since the industrial revolution English. However he failed miserably as well as prognosis in tackling this disease.
From the Marxist dialectic the world witnessed a brutal persecution of churches and priests by the Communists. And how many did not die because of this pointless "war material"? Worse is that this persecution happens today, the Chinese government.
The same progressive than China implemented the "market socialism" and that made the opening to foreign capital, is still too conservative with respect to religious liberalism.Logic any civilized explain the cruel persecution that Tibetan monks suffer from the Chinese authorities. Unless the strong popular support they have, and so are considered "dangerous." Because Tibet is a "rich mineral province" that China illegally conquered with force of arms, and they "could" encourage revolts against this occupation.
With the fall of the empire atheist Soviet Russia had also its religious liberalism. And he did wisely, for religion is the basis of morality and tradition of a people. How can a people walking confidently to a future without a spiritual light to guide you? A people deprived if his religious faith is an unfortunate and certainly people are enslaved by an elite materialist, whose historical and cultural vision to no more than an inch of his nose.
It follows that the materialistic religious alienation imposed by the Chinese government is not mindless. They arrogate to themselves the owners of wealth provided by the work of the people and do not want to share it with anyone, especially with the Tibetan religious, that accused the Communists of "exploiters of the people."
Despite the fact that religions receiving tithes of the faithful, they are important for the material and spiritual progress of the people. Former Prime Minister Tony Blair of England, understood the importance of faith and religion, so he wrote a great article published in "Global Viewpoint" and in the newspaper "O Estado de Sao Paulo" on December 21, 2008 entitled "The role of faith in the success of globalization."
I personally did not like the unconditional support that Blair gave President George W.Bush at the beginning of the Iraq war, thus endorsing the lie Bush stated categorically: "Iraq possesses weapons of mass destruction and is therefore a great danger for humanity." Well, on behalf of this great lie left the U.S. for war with England, against world opinion and the UN itself.
After all, the article is suitable to give Blair a northern New Religious UN in solving global strategic problems of humanity. Here are some important points of the article by Blair:
"The pressures of globalization lead people to join without knowing the borders, trade, travel, telecommunications and mass migration. When in a world so interdependent religious faith has the power to remove people it becomes a force of disruption and conflict. That sucks for everyone. But such an outcome is particularly bad for those who have religious faith. Meaning that faith is not synonymous with reconciliation, compassion and justice, but of hatred and sectarianism. "
Blair goes further and shows the interdependence between religion and the state economy:
"If we do not find a way to reconcile faith and globalization. The world will not only be a dangerous place, like globalization itself will have much less chance of success in spreading prosperity. "
Blair's article cites other important points about religion and faith, which I think important to describe them. They are:
1 - "Religious faith is very important. Like it or not, billions of people are motivated by them. "2 - "To function effectively, globalization needs values like trust, faith, openness and justice."3 - "The faith and their values are very important. Its integration crucially define the prospects of success, priority, and peaceful coexistence of the global society we live. "
The text of Blair's rather plain, a true north by which the UN and the New sociocapitalismo itself should be oriented with a view to a better world.
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ResponderExcluirReligion has always played a large role in politics. It has played a role in the division of parties, political policy, and in influencing voters to vote for a particular candidate. Thanks a lot....
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