Thursday 3rd May 2007

Darwinian lesson (absolute evolutionistic naturalism) must be healed by the platonic version of subordination of nature and faith to ideas, in Christian terms, to God, not only as a companion, but also as a planner, producer and director of the universe.
Darwin and Plato are overjoyed: to this speculative strategy modern Christians are called out. The whole “physics” and the highest metaphysics loving each other.

To heal Darwin through Plato and Plato through the Aristotelian Darwin.

The Whole is Dyad, two opposed and dialectic fields: the Heraclites Movement and the Parmenides Being.

Thanks to his mother, with Jewish blood, he belonged to the thinkers. Thanks to his father, to the contemplatives. His paternal aunt had been a Benedictine nun in a cloister.

When a church and a Pope consider themselves as Reason, they talk nonsense. The recent coarse reactions towards them are reactions to Craziness.

Wednesday 2nd May 2007. The main door of the Cathedral in Monopoli is dirtied. Act-echo of the case sent to Bagnasco.

“He is a saint”: whispered the provincial boy to the novice at the conference of father Arrupe. The smile was cold.

«by the sea, a deserted sea
stands a baby-man,
his soul filled with melancholy
and his brain with doubts, and with a
gloomy voice he asks the waves:
[…]
“tell me, then, you what is a man?
Where is he from? Where he goes?
Who lives on the golden stars?”

Eternal murmur, the waves murmur,
The wind blows and the clouds fly away,
indifferent the stars shine,
and a fool is still there, waiting for an answer».

                                                Heine

This article is available in Italian too