Christian roots of Europe and the sins
A ghost wanders to Europe, one might say, paraphrasing someone ... the ghost is that of the continent's Christian roots. The refusal to recognize them by the nomenklatura in Brussels was felt by many Catholics - Protestants and Orthodox are more rare, if not warm - like a wound is not healed, ready to reopen. Now, an opportunity is given by Union document on violence against Christians.
the end - in line with the hegemonic ideology nell'europarlamento, the political ccorrectness - noble exhortations touching appeals for tolerance and freedom of worship. In short, many words from a "Christian", never used in the text . The immediate Catholic voices of protest have argued that nothing else could be expected from a Europe that does not want to acknowledge his roots, preferring to be anyone's daughter and the Church. Someone said that to deny those roots is not a sin against religion, but against the story. But is it really? Well, that story is true worth groped a quick drill, never forgetting the words with which Leo XIII announced the opening to scholars of the Vatican Secret: "Christianity needs only Truth."
To start from the beginning, the truth reveals that historians now agree on a reality as all the revolutionaries who have been successful, even Christians have been pushed to early heroic mythologizing. [ a myth that does not concern the reality of the Christian Faith teandrica - Editor's note]. Mistaken to think of the Roman Empire engaged in a relentless and systematic persecution of the proclaimers of Jesus' death and resurrection. As witnessed by the Acts of the Apostles, it was the Empire - with its judges and its soldiers - to prevent the official Judaism smothered in the crib that did not seem more than a Jewish heresy. The Roman persecutions were discontinuous, mostly local, proclaimed by an emperor, but set aside by his successor. The number of martyrs seems to be very small compared to the exorbitant given by the ancient apologists.
Less than you might think the martyrs, but less than imagined when the baptized, almost three centuries later, Constantine extended the freedom to worship for Christians. In North Africa and the Middle East, although many communities were torn apart by fierce theological conflict. In Europe, however, the cristianesimo aveva creato roccaforti quasi soltanto in alcune grandi città, circondate dalla massa enorme dei "pagani", cioè gli abitanti dei pagi , i villaggi contadini. Una prima cristianizzazione di massa iniziò qualche decennio dopo ma per volontà imperiale quando Teodosio andò ben oltre il decreto costantiniano che dava libertà ai cristiani e tolse la libertà ai non cristiani, imponendo la chiusura dei templi e la distruzione dei segni pagani.
Ma molti ignorano che soltanto poco prima che Francesco d'Assisi mostrasse a quali vette fosse giunta da noi la spiritualità cristiana, gli ultimi pagani europei - quelli degli attuali stati baltici - si arrendevano al lungo assedio Christian resigned and accepted baptism. Other people were persuaded to deny (at least officially, but often not in the occult) the worship to their gods not always good, sometimes even with the bad. There were also incidents such as the terrible attack of Charlemagne against the Saxons, which ended with the massacre of those who riflutavano baptism. Unedifying well as enterprises of the Teutonic Knights, that monks and soldiers that "Christianization" Eastern Europe in hand with a cross and a sword that often dripping with blood. Their fame was such that it is no coincidence that Himmler riesumerà their banners and flags for that 'brown Order "in which he wanted to transform its SS.
clear: quella verità storica cui deve ispirarsi soprattutto il credente, impone di ricordare l'altro volto della realtà. E cioè l'apostolato coraggioso, tenace, spesso eroico, di schiere di inermi religiosi che si fecero missionari tra i barbari, tra gli idolatri, tra i pagani di ogni sorta e razza, avendo come sola arma il vangelo e l'esempio personale. Né va dimenticato che, se da qualche parte il battesimo fu imposto dalla legge del più forte, in molti altri luoghi il Vangelo fu accolto liberamente e praticato sinceramente. Ne è testomonianza irrefutabile l'Europa che in un paio di secoli si coprì di meravigliose cattedrali costruite con il lavoro, l'impegno, la fede di tutto il popolo. Dagli aristocratici alle prostitute.
Much more should be said to start with that resounding example of "heterogenesis of purpose" that was the Benedictine monasticism: those men did not want Europe without knowing it.
trying to close in isolated towns where perhaps peace in prayer and asceticism, but their detachment from the world created a new world. [More Benedict XVI's speech in Paris ]
should be remembered, above all, that any doctrine or ideology born in Europe against Christianity actually proposed, and proposes ideals unintelligible without the legacy of the Gospel. Beginning with the "trinity" of de-Christianized Jacobins - liberté egalité fraternité - che è una sorte di quintessenza cristiana ( sia pure mondanizzata ndR ). Non dimenticando quel giudeo-cristianesimo secolarizzato che è il marxismo. Insomma, la storia è sempre troppo complicata per chi - da una parte e dell'altra- voglia partire in crociata. Per stare alle radici europee: verità impone di riconoscere che a questo nostro continenete il cristianesimo fu talvolta imposto piuttosto che proposto. Ma venti secoli stanno alle nostre spalle: che metteremmo in questa nostra storia, se rimuovessimo ciò che li ha riempiti a tal punto che anche chi ha cercato di liberarsene ha dovuto rifarsi ai sui valori?
[Fonte: Vittorio Messori, su Il Giornale 31 gennaio 2011]
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