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Benedict XVI Christianity and the crises of cultures

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The history of religions is coextensive with the history of humanity. As far as we know, there has never been an epoch in which the question of the One who is totally the other, the Divine, has been alien to man.

The knowledge of God has always existed.  And nowhere in the history of religions, in various forms, we encounter the significant conflict between the knowledge of the one God and the attraction of other powers that are considered more dangerous or nearer at hand and, therefore,more important for man than the God who is distant and mysterious.

All of history bears the traces of this strange dilemma between the non-violent, tranquil demands
made by the truth, on the one hand, and the pressure brought to make profits and the need to have a good Relationship with the powers that determine daily life by their interventions, on the other hand. Again and again, we see the victory of profit over truth, although the signs of the truth and of its own power never disappear completely. Indeed, they continue to live, often in surprising forms, in the very heart of a jungle full of poisoness plants.

But is this true even today, in a totally non-religious culture, in a culture of rationality and of the technology it harnesses? I believe that the answer is yes. For even today, the question man poses goes beyond the sphere of technological rationality. Even today, we do not limit ourselves to the question: "what can I do?" We also ask: "What ought I do, and who am I?"

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Divided Loyalties: May 11, 1532

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