among readers who loves and frequents the mountain will not have been able to avoid notice that the peaks above our valleys svettino many Christian crosses, placed to dominate the valleys below, or hidden, locations visible only after a long and arduous journey along the paths of high altitude. Iron, concrete or wood, more or less visible but still intrusive, 'artificial', clearly a symbol of a party to the mountain-that-place (even if it were considered that arises from the natural movement of continental plates) work is not aware of upper holder of the symbol but, besides being of everyone, believers or not, however, is the place 'spiritual' or metaphysical par excellence
"Every visitor to the mountain, past and present Motivated by intent or wilderness recreation and leisure, found in the upstream core value in many ways a mystic, resulting primarily from the inevitable, majestic natural beauty of the mountains, from being a sphere of purity, still devoid of incontaminatezza certain ugliness of human civilization more senseless, from every place absolute peak, high above the world and beyond which there is only the vastness of the sky; the same plan from the climber ascending to the summit has often been interpreted in ascetic (same etymological root, for that matter), the elevation from the daily routine to that of pure high altitudes. Without in any way stretch out to supernatural visions, divine and thus religious, there is no doubt that the essence of the mountain vibrates and touches the deepest chords of the human soul, and springs from feelings and emotions of absolute humanity, someone called the mountains " cathedrals of the earth ", to emphasize a sacred absolute, absolutely secular and well contrasted with any other set of religious origin, with the mountains as beautiful temples praising the beauty of nature in general and of our world, "
to use the words of the writer Luca Rota .
habit to 'mark' territory, as some wild animals with their smell, is typical Catholic culture dates back to ancient times, but those times have changed and the imposition of party symbols is no longer universally advocated or tolerated only by those who make the mountain even his 'profession' or his life: the question In fact, it was also placed inside the CAI, the Italian Alpine Club, and the debate has reached peaks that would drive controversy, for example, some members to return the card without many regrets, while a Swiss mountain guide has a cross sawn without ceremony or remorse, and even here in some crosses planted with emphasis (and with the helicopter) Dolomites 'disappear' mysteriously, leaving only the holes of the bolts between the shock of innocent villagers. It comes, inevitably, to the provocation of some intelligent guides who in 2005 brought a statue of Buddha on top of Pizzo shovel. About
plant crosses in the mountains is not even remotely consider that his abuse is, an arbitrary act, misappropriation of a common good, as does (fortunately only in words) the reigning pope, and as did his predecessor, who during his summer holidays in Val d'Aosta, which does not glorify God's work that it would create 'such great beauty'. It 'true that a cross between a ski lift, which is abandoned or running, there is little doubt which creates the most damage to the alpine environment (Ratzinger has never been to see Pila summer?), But apart from the fact that a battle does not exclude the other, a chair lift is not a symbol of an ideology (if not that of cement and speculators at all costs) for discriminating those who do not share.
To all these objections to replicate it ends with the usual self-destructive mechanism (involuntary?) Scaling the value of the symbol-crucifix: a cross that annoying?, respond after trying to argue the alleged universality of the symbol.
So you can not give that right to Reinhold Messner, when he says that would be fair to remove all symbols from the mountains: "When you reach the top as they used to do just once, to build a cairn of stones." And stop. In order not to make religious war territory of yet.
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