want to talk about religion. In the Catholic religion. I speak mainly of the Catholic Church as an institution of power and linked to the state. That is, as what should not be.
not dispute that within a society, the Church engage in advocacy for power. Everything is power relationships. What I wonder is, its absurd claim to be the State. To impose its doctrine and general discourse. Better, to impose their speech as general law, and not as standard for their faithful.
From where does this ambition? It is ambition or collusion between church and state? Where in the story line is confusing the roles?
I know from books, from a world in which God is the center and that anyone who does not respect the law, persecuted, imprisoned and burned. I also know that at some point, God ceases to be the center and that place is going to take the man.
And yet nothing seems to have changed. O yes, and it's just the Church that seeks to fill the central location such as a Balance Law and Society.
In dictatorships, it seems much simpler than the discourse of absolute revealed truth, not blindly refute and respected, to metastasize.
In democratic societies, however, the institutional Church, it seems resigned to take the place it deserves and which he gave his chief ideologue in laying the foundation stone.
Instead, the organization seeks not only impose their speech as a general rule of coexistence, but also keep a large part of the "cake" which involves the State (that is, all Jewish, Catholic, blonde, yellow, employees, bosses, homosexuals, women, sick healthy, etc.).
As an example, it may be recalled in Argentina, the issuance of the Divorce Act in the 80's, around which the bombing Catholicism the state as "generator of divorce." As if an atheist, should respect the law abstract of a God who does not believe.
These attacks and rabid intolerance of Catholicism, rose last year, when the Government, ready to play a central role in the pursuit of equality, regulated the Equal Marriage Act, and is sensed, a bitter struggle around the Abortion Act.
is simple: the Church's ambition that his speech forged from belief, faith, outreach, even those who do not share those beliefs. And if they could establish Hell as punishment for all social misconduct, or what they consider "sin."
Hell, must accept the Church, is an unproven hypothesis, and as such can not be considered a temporary physical space that a law of society, if you can determine punishment.
But this claim is not merely discursive. It is clear that the Church knows what role it should play, but not accepted. The organization is not naive and knows that, at least in Argentina, its constitutional status as the State Religion, gives some important privileges that no other religion has.
In the December issue of 2010 Magazine Faces and Masks, appears an interesting article by Gabriel Michi, which summarizes the privileges of the Catholic Church. Briefly, we could list them:
- The State (all) contribute to the salaries of titular bishops, auxiliary emeritus. Retirement contributions priests and parishes.
- Religious Catholics do not pay taxes, except for services like electricity and water.
- The state subsidizes denominational schools.
suspect that with these few data, just to get an idea of \u200b\u200bwhy the Church Institution fight tooth and nail that place that does not belong, to share state power. It is not just a matter of discourse and imposed on other religions, is about money, and pretty.
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