Christianity will return? This is the thesis of the left-wing philosopher, Tomasz Stawiszyński. In his opinion, the void which arose in the West after the rejection of Christianity is impossible to fill in any another way than in Christianity.
Related to TOK FM and General Weekly Tomasz Stawiszyński gave an interview to Ewa Kalet from “Gazeta Wyborcza”.
According to Stawiszyński, modern man has no good answer to death and suffering. In their face, he simply escapes and blocks his experiences. erstwhile confronted with death, any ritual, institution and symbolic language is needed, he thinks. “Something that can unite us in the face of passing, weakness, death, loss. erstwhile specified a symbolic language was Christianity in the West. However, in the last 100 years his position has fallen heavily," he says in a conversation.
According to the philosopher, after Christianity, there was not a new, rational secular culture, but "identical narratives, pseudoscience, conspiracy theories and commercialized esoterisms".
In his opinion, however, Christianity will be reborn, which is to be seen on the basis of a circumstantial movement of erstwhile atheists. Stawiszyński pointed to Peter Boghossian, the author of popular atheistic books, who present apologizes for his criticism of Christianity. However, it acknowledges that it was “a vital cultural force that positively affected social governance,” says the interviewer. Another figure of this movement is Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Somali, who has lived in the Netherlands for years. For many years, says Stawiszyński, she criticized Islam from prospects close to reasoning Dawkins' “God of the delusional”. "Ali late published the text "Why I Am a Christian now" – whose title refers to Bertrand Russell's loud essay "Why I Am not a Christian" – in which she puts the thesis that there is simply a hunger for meaning in the West today, a spiritual void," says the philosopher.
In his opinion, the West found itself in a dead end. “In sterile self-criticism or self-determination, that Western culture is purely oppressive and colonial culture, the origin of all evil, or that values are simply social construct, convention, and no are better than others.” "It doesn't lead anywhere, and I think people are just starting to announcement it more and more. Meanwhile, Christianity is the best known symbolic, conceptual, philosophical sphere, which, on the 1 hand, gives tools to talk about fundamental matters – life, death, sense, passing, good and evil – but on the another hand it solidifies values in something objective" - he emphasizes.
According to Stawiszyński, it must be admitted that people in the West overlooked something, meaning that they were looking for fresh philosophies and sources, although what they wanted was in their own tradition.
"Where is it that it is always essential to "create something new"? How do you know that? possibly sometimes it is worth considering whether something valuable has been rejected in the name of these supposedly better novelties? And it is simply a certain courage to admit to specified hastyness, to effort to rethink your decisions. I don't see anything problematic about it, on the contrary," he says.
According to the philosopher, 1 of the most devastating modern phenomena is the devaluation of the concept of truth. "It turns out that where we lose the criterion of fact – but where we lose the awareness that fact is possible at all – there is not only an interesting, colorful diversity, but above all a strength," he says, which he thinks is besides well visible in planet politics.
How then? Many progressive Christians are convinced that this is the end, and the future of the planet is simply relativistic liberalism and dissolving the Church in the crucible of modernity, whatever this crucible would actually be. specified narratives are strengthened by the capitular attitude, spread among others by the well-known French philosopher Chantal Delsol. Stawiszyński's reflections – and the fact that they are published in the "Election" – indicate, however, that any of the environments closer to the left besides see the real emptiness of modern times. After the "killing of God," man was alone—and he is not comfortable with it...
Source: electoral.pl
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