Serie De Nero 6.6.0.1.3

Some comments on the unity of secular

The baby National Coordination Lay is a very timely initiative in our country, it faced the overwhelming power of the Church must join forces and speak with one voice to emerge, there is no alternative to ' units of the laity. An initiative that can be effective, it also shows some broken clerical reaction.

parallel to worthy initiatives to mobilize the Coordination of individual or groups of individuals, often in the area, however, it also calls for reflection (and subsequent comparison) about where-and how-to channel the energies, which are initiatives that can be shared, what are the immediate priorities but also on how the initiative over the long term, being at large in our country a widespread awareness of secular, liberal and genuinely democratic bone in many countries outside Europe (eg to secular demonstrations held in the very Catholic Spain but also in Turkey and recently in Tunisia and Lebanon ) already exists here and that we must build from the ground up, and this is a job that inevitably will touch us. In fact, it is useless to turn to politics, we know that secularism is not on the agenda of any party, except occasionally and only for periodic and temporary expediency, we know that secularism does not 'pay' in terms of electoral support for the bulk of the population actually do not even know the meaning of secularism, or trust the description given by the pope when it appears on the balcony on Sunday. As we know that a significant proportion of citizens form opinions based solely on information "official", especially television news.

A hypothetical party exclusively devoted to the cause of secularism (atheism or worse), then, would not have sufficient visibility in the media controlled by the power of pro-Vatican, and would provide security to the bulk of the electorate, which is rightly sensitive to all the unresolved problems of our Italy and not just some. Instead, we constitute ourselves as a lobby, a lobby equal and opposite to that of the Catholics, and put our votes on the package of market policy.

Therefore, we can begin immediately by Laura Balbo bell'intervento of the Meeting "free not to believe" organized by the EU in September 2009: "We who are here," says sociologist and honorary president of ' Uaar "we are already aware, but how to reach the other ?. In fact, this is the core of the problem: the ideal-that does not seem to get is a chance-interest and involve the same masses who are currently willing to crowd the streets in protest against the "bunga bunga 'or against the continued attacks on the dignity of work and school, because the problems (lack of) secular state are not less important, but we are the only ones who realize it and do not need to none that we continue to remain a small and isolated 'cultural elite' aware, unless we are able to affect the rest of the country. ____________________________________________


As the battle is also fought on the ground of media (yes, those same media who regularly cry censorship but then an infinitesimal space to devote to issues of secularism, even if they involve a significant proportion of citizens ) in a country that has more the appearance of being, it is important that we see, maybe even that we count, in fact they can no longer ignore us, so a good communication campaign (not necessarily mere advertising, which of course has its costs ) would be important, but in the case will be 'outdated' s ateobus : useless to discuss theology or maximum systems (there is a God / god is not there), rather than make clear that non-believers are not free as believers, and that this is not right because it is one that others are taxpaying citizens alike, and it 's time that everyone knows. Even

clarity of language is important: we know that the Church clergy and politicians and pundits use the proven system of obsessive repetition of a lie until it becomes a matter of truth or fact. They talk, for example, the family as if it were an abstract entity or a solid block, but no more alien to the everyday reality for all, as if the ruin of one family on millions and millions in the whole world was the institution of the family-block only to be compromised. We must be able to explain the truth in a clear, unequivocal and convincing, for example, using the metaphor of the chair, talking about the extension of the institution and civil-secular, not religious-of marriage to homosexual couples, it may demonstrate that it is not to lift one leg to the chair (the institution of family), which certainly falls in that way, but it comes to talking to another chair, to complement and not replace the existing one. In short, we must be able to explain convincingly that giving rights to those who do not take away from those who in no way implies it already has.

also why it is important that the membership will increase the CLN, and involve movements (eg a ) and associations including those not normally vote to the cause of secularism, it is important to put together the mobilization capacity of individual organizations (such as just see how the little-known We Breccia has been able-in 'general indifference of the media-to take place in something like five thousand people around, even with a platform "aggressive" as the No-Vat), and it is important conivolgere also known people who do more "listening" to the world of communication and increase our market value of the policy and the same communication, two things that often coincide. Not shocked that this logic "merchant", if it helps achieve the goal.

Again, as is already the ' Uaar , close to the elections compile a list of candidates with your back straight, available to represent our concerns if elected, list to be run for the web, or send letters to newspapers signed directly by the CLN (associations are generally considered more of individuals) to enter into the debate on secularism-as-you also our point of view otherwise spent on the sly . They are all solutions to almost zero cost, who has other ideas come forward.

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In short, it is essential to create a movement of opinion COESO well VISIBLE , which is manifested in its compact and forceful when needed. So there might be reverse process to that of today: will the parties (or individual politicians, some of which is already the case) to come and offer their availability to represent us in Parliament, this will mean a little haggling, but a virtue of necessity. Visibility is what we need to begin with, and we can go through the process that began with the CLN.

Besides the time seems propitious, with the Church pedophilia scandal in difficulty, the decline in revenue from eight per thousand and the increasingly embarrassing unconditional support for the paradoxical defender of 'Christian values' Berlusconi beat until the wire is is hot. Maybe we've already missed the boat of the upcoming elections, which all take for upcoming, but at least for the time of the next term we need to prepare and build something solid.

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Finally, last but not least , you also need a humble self-criticism and constructive for the suicidal tendency to fragmentation and multiplication of the initiatives of associations, an attitude sometimes perhaps due to pure narcissism and producing guilty dispersion of energy, you will understand what we are willing to give for example in terms of visibility for the benefit of individual collegiate initiative, agreed with the other secular reality. In short, the individual will actually cede some autonomy decision (which can remain independent for the rest) to CLN on topics of general interest, to give it the necessary authority and agility that is essential. In order to avoid useless, for the umpteenth time.

This is the "homework" that we could all play in the coming months.


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