that remove the crucifix in schools as well as agreed upon by the other day the European Court of Human Rights. It is only an object, a symbol, as many say. It could be an asset. Its presence and almost taken for granted "honor" often leads us to forget that this man, two thousand years ago, the nails had them really, that image is not just useful for some beautiful picture moral reflection, but a true fact , happened, that challenge in every moment of our life and our destiny of mortals. I do not think that would be interested too, to a man who said he was "salvation of every man, "see themselves as defending one of the many" cultural symbols ".
it off as well! What they can never take away, with strokes of judgments, is what little remains of the Christian conscience in schools: students and teachers who live in the flesh the school from the faith and its ability to determine the life. All this, because houses in the human consciousness is indeed ineradicable.
Indeed, the lack of power, symbols, and holds formal compels a greater seriousness of the fund. Never before in times of persecution is or fought, in fact, a religious proposal has gone to deal with its own "convenience" and, therefore, to develop and deepen: it happened with the persecutions of the Roman emperors, it happens again in the last century under the Soviet dictatorship.
This assessment and the inviolability of the Christian Church, however, can not exempt ourselves from a couple of opinions on the reasons that determined the sentence. This is, obviously, for ideological reasons, which stem from a being "against" someone or something, in this case Church , and not a fact of reality.
Just a little common sense to see how innocent that presence in the classrooms, a symbol of recognition of a people in history, more intent means that "persuasion" of the Church. It is with a symbol, of course, that persuades someone to the recognition of a religion or institution. To do this, educators need to express and embody with their lifestyle, so as to be attractive to young people. And this, of course, applies equally to the crucifix as the photo of the President of the Republic (also posted in many classrooms). More than symbols!
Let's face it, so. Behind this apparent battle of progress is not really suffering from a poor girl "raped" by the cross in his right to freedom of conscience. There are a father and a mother fierce, behind ferratissimi law firms and major associations. And there is a European Community that never fails to assert and impose their own conception of secularism formal and without content.
Whether it's people who are fed by a culture that, if initially the result of a legitimate dissent from the positions of the Church, often results in a nuisance by its very presence and his ability to affect the public space. From here is a short step to a feeling of hostility that is expressed even when there are not any reasons. It comes very often to enjoy and rejoice in every misfortune, inconsistency or scandal within the Church. There is now even a real cultural vein that feeds on this emphasis of its human limitations: movies, documentaries, books, websites, associations, etc..
is from this culture which comes to the harmlessness crucified the attack: the attack, apparently, as a religious symbol. In reality, however, bothers as a symbol of that particular religion and that particular institution. We shall do well to admit it soon: some battles are battles of hostility rather than real progress. And therefore, like all things that come against something and not "for" something, are intended to destroy without building.
Pino Suriano
