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If we were all atheists (even atheists)

In his blog La Repubblica, Piergiorgio Odifreddi stresses that a statement is not unusual (in fact about Jose Saramago quotes) but that is not even a simple truism: nothing this upside down world where secularism and clericalism were played off the other one in the box, it is never too obvious. The statement in question is: if we were all atheists the world would be less violent, or otherwise-implied-a better world.

Now, the famous mathematician refers specifically to the absurd, yet another mini religious war that was unleashed after the idiot found that Christian fanatic who wanted to burn the Koran the Sept. 11, but out of the topical and looking at the problem further, I would say from a philosophical perspective, it is useful to clarify one thing: atheism (assuming he can speak in the singular and the plural rather, the simple fact that there are many forms of atheism as there are atheists) not only for those who do not have a religion and does not believe in anything transcendent.

What many well-meaning Catholics and believers-in-general tirelessly to reproach declared atheists is that they replace the gods of the faithful with a few other gods, that is astrology, idolatry of consumerism and fashion, uncritical scientism, conformism, fideism proposal (see Soviet-style communism or even Berlusconi today), even atheism itself elevated to the dogmatic doctrine.

Ultimately, this criticism probably they do not always have a point, so many of those who call themselves atheists but they fall into the trap of the exchange of fetishes should review their definition of atheism. To that end, we could say that: the atheist is one who does not adhere to any preconceived ideology, religious or not, but it is also the one who is not satisfied with the telling of the story and the life that comes from giving pre-established channels to investigate and understand first hand how the world goes, is someone who poses the essential questions but does not indulge easier to answer without first verifying its content with detachment, is one who knows that "everything is relative", to quote Albert Einstein, in a word, the atheist is a free man in mind and in his vision of the world and social relations, and is aware of their freedom.

should have this kind of awareness (which will not come without commitment and perseverance, in a culture dominated by Catholicism) to fend without the effort and the avalanche of criticism stereotyped clichés (how many atheists in comparison with a believer who has been criticized because they are against the Church and religion then surely they are Stalinists?) chasing all over the atheist. And that invariably

hours Odifreddi rain on the poor, who dared to say: "... typical of religions, and especially of the monotheistic religions ... who believes they have the absolute truth, relativism does not fight alone: \u200b\u200bit also arrogate the right to go and tell others what you would not want others to come and say to him. Basically, the problem of religious violence is all here. "

Obvious, but not granted.

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XX Settembre, nostalgia

Next year will be celebrated with great pomp (League permitting) the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy, but the XX September this year will be 140 years from completion and effective final unity of the nation, with the liberation of Rome from the yoke of the temporal power of the popes and the transfer of capital from Florence (made the following year). Unless the 'adjustments' that were a result of the last war, the physiognomy of the country by that time will not change any more.

The xx September is our 'Independence Day', the first (the other is the April 25, also given that the unpopular right-wing majority, as it happens), liberation from Christian theocracy. E 'therefore an important date, but is no longer a national holiday, such as fascism abolished when the state has signed with the infamous Vatican Lateran Pacts. In their proposal-writing The Republic - two minority directors in the Capitol (Athos De Luca of the Democratic Party and the Civic List Gianluca Quadrana) asked to come back to be, because "Many years have passed since that September 20, 1870 in when Rome became the capital of the 'united Italy, the time is ripe to remove the' stigma imposed by fascism in this important anniversary of the Italian history that we need to know to new generations. "

We have a bunch of religious holidays, the entire calendar is completely consecrated to the memory and the celebrations of the Christian saints (many of which only assumed, it must be said, that read the true story c ' is to shudder for what they have done and why the Church has sanctified and chosen example to follow!), and only relatively few, rather than celebrate-remember-or at least the basic steps of secular history of this country. To celebrate is to remember the past to understand the present and thinking about the future, does not mean wasting time and money in useless ceremonies, than if it were not for that there should be no feast, starting with religious ones.
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of water has passed under the bridge, and the fate would have it today to have the power to decide on the proposal of De Luca and Quadrini is a ruling class that has a lot to do just that with the regime by signing the Concordat with the Church of Rome has in fact betrayed the spirit of unity which took place on xx September 1870 and returned to the Church itself, as we have seen in the following decades until today, the temporal power that had lost that day, even hour exercised ' modern ', ie more or less hidden and fraudulent, that does not require having to expose the first person into the political arena. From "non expedit" then to the continuous interference in political life (and social) Italian today, that is what the Vatican should be a democracy and an independent foreign sovereign state, it is making a de facto restoration of the balance of power between the two states, fully supported by a counter right hand side of the Italian Parliament, which On the other hand had already tried to 'rehabilitate' the Republican fascists and refuses to ever-especially in the person of the President of the Council, its highest authority, to celebrate April 25 as well (except when you need to make yet another walkway making money with great cynicism about the tragedy of the earthquake Abbruzzese, see link above), and that fact stands out xx September two years ago, recalling the stage near the Porta Pia 19 papal Zouaves died on that day 140 years ago, while trying to defend what was left of a vicious dictatorship.

What is the situation now in Rome, if that is the capital of Italy is also famous shooters who opened the broken and closed the pope in the Vatican walls? In the capital more filthy and neglected in Europe, the right-wing mayor wants knock down a wall of the shrine Meier's Ara Pacis (this dell'archistar his aversion to the work I consider purely ideological, and killing wall of a pointless revenge on the former junta, in a different color) to see two churches from Tiber, and gave land to the Curia will be built where the first of 51 new churches well! With more and more existing ones are empty (which is why even this latest cast of 'concrete holy' is purely ideological, only serves to provide the Church other centers of propaganda and indoctrination) and the usual waste of public money for the benefit of a minority that could easily take advantage dell'ingente material heritage of his Church.

We understand that the Vatican is much better now that until the Renaissance: he has power, influence, privileges (such as exemption from all the shameful heritage of the CI on Roman and Italian), which is why they are happy and concelebrate cheerily putting them in front of a faux-secular Porta Pia. All with the complicity of the laity (STI) that the Italian xx September, as other instances of this kind, if interested in it too little, or nothing.

'pilot', try to organize (x exclude any 'excesses' secularists) this year's celebration is volersene as appropriate, as did all ancient pagan festivals and celebrations: religion attacks, swallow , assimilate and excrete something different from sol invictus become Christ's birth until September xx continues to devastate, delete, mark their territory.

Therefore, we is little hope that the proposed restoration of the festival (which it should be backed up with force and conviction by all the Italian lay) will be accepted: as just mentioned, we know that this time-The Republic writes - the agenda of the celebrations is decided by the mayor of Rome, the ex / post / neo-fascist Gianni Alemanno, together with leaders of the Vatican (in the person of Cardinal Bertone) and none other than the President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano, or the highest authority of the state, that this very State, its Constitution and its secular identity should defend, rather than betray and sell out in the name of a supposed 'respect' the Church's position, again once set before History.

So there are good possibilities of having to attend in the coming days, the pitiful spectacle of a new revisionist celebration of our history, a new clean slate on the board of our collective consciousness, a new piece of the strategy of erasure of historical memory of this country, to please the increasingly overt theocratic longings Vatican and in accordance with the idea that ignorant people can be controlled better.

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rogue god is useless

Stephen Hawking, world-renowned astrophysicist, said God's intervention is unnecessary to explain the creation of the universe, due to a mechanism of 'spontaneous creation' following the law of gravity. Pending the full publication of the book (those are just so far out of advances) that contains this statement and which I have not seen the necessary skills, I can make some considerations 'incidental' personal, of another kind, but not less important.

The debate between creationists (now infiltrated everywhere, even in the most unlikely ) and evolutionists, since the discoveries in astrophysics have begun to grow at an exponential rate has moved from the planet Earth to the universe (universes ), but without change of nature and harshness of contrasts, and every time you move suddenly in the field of philosophical speculation, obviously more to contrast their theories to arrive, along with maybe a Theory of Everything finally demonstrated and shared. Eventuality, however, on which I would keep all my skepticism, even if it were possible, given the uncompromising nature of religious absolutism.

can understand the angry reactions rained down on the statements of Hawking, argue that because God is not necessary to create means to undermine and tear down the whole system of religious dogmatism, millennia of indoctrination passed off as granite certainties and all Fortunately these have led to an elite caste of priests around the world. As someone cleverly or stupidly melee plans, confusing philosophical theory and scientific observation (the mode of creation with the reason why it happened), then doing so perfidious insinuations about Hawking as to suggest the existence not a god-love such as that sold as good everywhere, but to evil gods that make the man, some men-particularly cruel, dishonest speculation about his physical condition (Hawking is dependent on a motorized chair to move from one machine and to speak because its progressive muscular atrophy).

To the question that arises before us (what good is a god?) The believer has a canned reply in his religion, which blocks the bud any attempt to further reasoning, and is so happy. We
(unbelievers), but we cut it short, give reason to astrophysics English and admit that yes, any god is essentially useless (but his followers very dangerous, as history teaches us), because the physics will give us sooner or then the answers we seek, or other applications with which to continue scientific research, but without the hassle of having to give ourselves an answer on the reason of all that exists and happens, which is a distinct philosophical speculation from scientific observation. Or we might conclude, if there is some kind of 'upper body', that it is following the 'creation', rather than a consequence of this cause.

But the non-believer, a fact that there is no old man with a beard and a white triangle on his head on any little cloud in front of him was a sea of \u200b\u200bmore opportunities to see the issue, leaving all to a different question not enough to observe and wonder at the terrible majesty of nature without trying to give it a name, a reassuring explanation, a familiar face, a mark that certifies the origin and an instruction manual? Why not just
to introduce the element of 'poetry' rather than wanting to put all costs throughout a foolish religious dogmatism (it takes a good dose of insanity to go by the philosophy and theology requirements to obtuse as not eating pork or cover their heads in church and other amenities that!) that not only does not explain anything in an objectively provable, but in fact trying to prevent even the explanations and evidence under the threat of eternal fire for the crime of 'lese-majeste divine'?

Here's an example: the theories on the origins of complex life forms on Earth are moving ever more decisively toward the hypothesis that life-it-was brought here from another part of the system Sun 'on board' of an asteroid containing water in solid form (ice) and basic organic molecules dissolved in the water on the surface of our planet would then evolved over the course of geological time to the form we know, until recently -theory is not yet completely abandoned-it was thought as a vehicle instead of a comet. Now, applying a poetic vision (certainly not applicable on a scientific level) to a natural phenomenon well-explained, we could see that the shape of a comet in orbit close to the Sun is similar to that of a sperm, and the shape of a planet like the Earth to that of an egg. With the conclusion that the meteorite bombardment of Earth and Cometal in the ages will be felt in the eyes of a hypothetical observer a giant alien insemination in space, which in effect brought the conditions for life was born. E 'image' poetic 'is a natural phenomenon, lawful and not inconsistent with the scientific method as long as you keep in mind that in reality it is biology, physics and chemistry.

I stop here, without pulling out tons of theological ruminations rigid and obtuse, to which generations of creationists have clung, and still do.

is: what if creationism (to return to a cosmic plan and the success of Hawking) was finally declassified in vision 'poetry' of the 'theory of everything'? Because it a religion with all its consequent dogmatism and fanaticism? Why spoil it? In the name of an alleged truth revealed? But what's the point?

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Nothing happened

September 2010.

We have just returned from the sea, mountains, countryside, for those who could, otherwise we are here to melt in the sun, trying not to think about the impending return. Soundtrack of summer: Lady Gaga, Shakira, Irene Grandi, Berlusconi, Fini, Casini, Ratzinger, Bagnasco ... in short, the usual. Same mare, same script national-popular-political. Smash summer: "I do not play more, I'm leaving." Mina? No, Gianfranco Fini. That is: the fascist salute all'antiberlusconismo militant. Stunts that even the Cirque du Soleil.
And so the usual theater all say they want to avoid like the plague but in which then invariably all have a part: you resign, resignation, no, you hunt, you do not hunt, there is still the majority and go forward, not even there is more and then the floor to the will of the people (which it normally slam, as in every election expect the 'people' only ratifying decisions already taken in their houses full of money and whores). On the other hand resurrect zombies: ricicciano Veltroni and even Prodi. The new advancing.

We have been here all summer, I said, to melt in the sun, without any of those to whom we pay the salary (it is not indifference, it is a fact) they were employed seriously the fact that maybe we will not find in September more our job , if we had, or the fact that for many single-income families by the end of the month is now closer to the beginning of the month at the end, little things like that, well, because we do not have problems serious as theirs, they can not soddisfarre all aspiring showgirls who crave a folding seat in the main lounge of power. And what would
republic, this? The second? But please!
worry, I said, nothing happened.

So it fell to the dictator of the moment and full recovery in August to shake a little water in a climate by the end of an empire depressing squalor.
Gaddafi and his 'Amazons', his tent, and even his horses Berbers, a kitsch festival a few times and lout as he had seen during a state visit. Dictators peasants-here-for some reason are always welcome. Among
miraculous conversions of comely young women (paid to the presence and choreography) and kissing and backslapping dictator with ours, the shot effect, " Islam is the religion of Europe. Augh, I said . "And then asked for an avalanche of money by threatening to support the invasion by a continental army of migrants, a ghost summoned by Gaddafi probably first of all for cash in the EU: a real extortion no doubt about it. All found adequate response from ' Europe (certainly not from Italy, the Libyan dictator who merely act as a shoulder).

First reaction, instinctive and dismissive: it lacking only this!
But then read, evaluate, weigh and weigh the reaction, just arrived from the acrobats of the buildings: all normal, I would say, shoot the Lega, the resentment of Catholic lobbies finally ... you come-drum roll-in that of the Vatican state, speaking through the Secretary of Propaganda Fide, Archbishop Robert Sarah Guinean.

And here's to stop and think.
For starters, note how the Bishop considers the sortie gheddafiana "a lack of sensitivity towards the Santopadre" , as if it were the sovereign and exclusive owner of the entire continent, but this shot deserves attention for another reason: because contains a (revived) and a policy statement (revived) a declaration of war.
Since the latter is highlighted (even if it is not so original) by the phrase:

"the true danger to the Europeans relativism, the lack of attention to the faith, the weakness of religion, indifference to the sacred. Mali, which are becoming so clear now too. These are the real 'enemies' of our faith, which could create fertile land for any future Islamic penetration throughout Europe. "

Shaken by the Vatican, the bogeyman of 'Islamic penetration' would seem a red herring (although, of course, a possibility is far from impossible in practice), a sham not so surprising when you consider that soon after Sarah reveals and declares no chance of misunderstanding what is the true goal of freedom of thought. The enemy, to fight at the cost of an alliance with the devil. And here the devil-the-first, unfortunate statement, that programmatic beyond the feeble protests against the Libyan dictator, he persists in offering to Islam (with whom Gaddafi really has not much to do) alliance against the objective, the common enemy, which is the one above. Basically most of the instances brought forward by the two religions have in common: the secular nature of burial institutions, repression of homosexuality and women's freedom, indoctrination continued from primary school level, control of social, public and private, to the minutest details and employment of power politically and economically. Meanwhile, the rest you can also come to an agreement, perhaps by either party on Friday that Sunday, that's the problem? But then, as all the chickens come home to roost, inevitably would lead to a clash between opposing proselytism. Why would a god, whatever, have to have precedence over others. Thus it is written-like.

Realistically: under the dome is insists on playing with fire (our skin) if it was this partnership that really works, and that the common enemies of religion can be defeated, what we expect next? A new holy war? The common enemy disappeared, how it organizes the territory between Islam and Christianity? How does one live in a continent that has always said he would 'Christian roots'?

I can not stress this enough: this is why Europe is urgently needed, and an Italy-secular, equidistant between religions and ideologies, freedom from that kind of conditioning, with strong institutions, as far as possible impervious to pressure lobbying religious, guaranteeing equality and freedom of individual citizens. Paradoxically, in the interests of religions and ideologies (and that's why the battle for secularism - secularism for them-should also be taken up by believers, at least those 'reasonable'), which free space may continue to exist without the risk that one may take precedence over the others. Certainly not in the interest of the non-believer and a citizen would like to stay with their freedom intact, and sees the danger in the push-all of those who 'opposed to those who seek the alliance of absolutism, believed to be able to defend against extremism using Another extreme, albeit of a different kind, until the inevitable crash or-at best-suppression of their civil rights in the name of a covenant or a war between the cruel and perverse. We're hunting
between two fires: it is a real risk, and must be addressed and averted until we have time. But instead

in Playland as always-think-that no one notices. Calm, nothing happened.