10/04/2011
© EDITIONS THE COUNTRY, SL
In the XXI century is a sign of political culture and legal press, especially from parties of the left or center-left, the secularization process, whose ultimate goal is secularism, understood as a peaceful and generally accepted by society.
The requirement stems from the lines that are identifying and pointing to the development prospects of modernity and that start the breakdown of religious unity with the emergence in the sixteenth century Protestants, the secularization of politics from Machiavelli and Pufendorf and Tomasio moral from the seventeenth century. In the same vein is removed by Hugo Grotius Classic Natural Law, subordinate to theology, saying that would exist if God did not exist and that we discover by reason applied to human nature. Are all paths that lead to a secularized modern world where God is still not questioned but that is like a watchmaker who built the device in the world, which works by itself.
Only the Catholic Church remains in line with the tradition that starts from the Aristotelian-Thomistic conception of the world and life. The solid ethical salvation mechanism that requires two inseparable pillars of the grace that is produced by the sacrifice of Christ on the Cross and freedom, which requires human works, it's still yours, but it is a dualism that breaks from the transition to modernity.
The ethics of Protestantism will be modern and secular humanism. The first is ethical only grace and the second single of freedom. By a quirk of history, both theoretically so far, in practice match the phase of the work mundane and secular background. Protestants are saved because they are predestined and secular humanists gradually dispense with the divine. Both are projected in society and the secular projects and look for this secularizing ethics, which may coincide, without the support either God or the Church. Individual ethics which leads everyone to virtue, goodness, happiness or salvation, whether religious or secular, is outside the social construction and purpose of the policy and law, can have a social extension but it is not relevant to the training element of the decision-making that will guide the development of modern societies.
With this perspective, the ideas of participation, consent, human rights, the Constitution and Democracy, will be placed on the prospects of secularization and secularism and will form his own ethics is no longer private but the ethics of the institutions of the procedures, values, principles and rights, ethics of citizens as such, drinking of those moral traditions, Protestant and secular humanism, which carry libertine traditions, illustrated, positivist, scientific, Darwinian and Republican. Schools and public institutions are the area where it develops, with respect to freedom of conscience, supremacy of reason. The Third French Republic was area where this ideology was forged and crystallized, with authors such as Gambetta, Ferry, Barthou, Waldeck-Rousseau, among others.
That spirit lay Europe today is coexisting with a Catholic Church back on track and arrogance from John Paul II to the present Pope.
Spain has been one of the great hurt of clericalism, and has suffered in the flesh before Franco, during the Franco dictatorship and democracy, while there is too much compromise with the worst clerical applications. There are many outstanding issues with the government of Rodriguez Zapatero agrees too think it's a good formula Big mistake!. As they get the chance, as in these regional elections, say they can not vote for parties that support divorce, abortion or marriage same sex.
There is still time and I pray to PSOE and its government to decide to take actions that are clearly in line properly. At least two measures, abrogation of the agreements with the Holy See and removal of formal teaching of religion must be taken. You can still do!
We can not be so naive as to think that inaction on our part will be answered with neutrality and fair play. That just happened with John XXIII and Paul VI. Then things returned to normal traditional and disloyalty to the civil authorities once again became the rule. They are supporters of everything represents Doña Esperanza and you can not expect anything. The more they are aware and support the worse respond. Only understand the stick and the separation of the fields. A free and a free church, each in its scope and that they may not have any free area, or privilege. Agree with them in good faith is being sure that it will use whatever they can.
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