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Pope Benedict XVI, The Papal Science

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This is a dangerous state of affairs for humanity, as we see from the disturbing pathologies of religion and reason which necessarily erupt when reason is so reduced that questions of religion and ethics no longer concern it. Attempts to construct an ethic from the rules of evolution or from psychology and sociology, end up being simply inadequate.

 

Humanistic values are simply inadequate, that is correct, but I wonder if Benedict understands what he says. Wonderment is rhetorical of course, since the lecture we read, even if we had no other document of the papal thinking, suffices to explain how papacy transformed the very faith into a humanism.

Just replace psychology, sociology, etc., with theology, a theology having been reduced by papacy to the same "reasonable" level with the sciences that followed (whether seemingly re-born from the ashes of another culture, or not), and you have an immediate idea of the transformation. The papal confusion is manifest by his very talk about a necessary hellenization of Christianity, that is, about his sur-real (above and beyond a reality that he despises), distinction of Aristotle as being more hellenic than a Plato he does not even know!

This parody of thinking is being offered to the modern West as antidote to the nihilism that the ideological-metaphysical terror-driven parody of faith expresses from the start and in the name of God. This explains how by the pope, when praising Greek culture, a defamation of Hellenism is born or reborn, no less than when attacking the Greeks. To young readers my advice is : beware!, search for the true meaning, when you hear the pope speaking about the supreme Good of the Hellenization of christianity and how he loves Manuel II Palaeologus and how he hates Islamic Jihad – ask him :

What do you mean by Hellenization?

Why do you love Manuel and not Symeon?

If you love Symeon, or even just Manuel, why did you condemn Meister Eckhart?

Why is Plato less Hellenic – than whom?

How do you hate islamic Jihad and shed of blood, a Crusader yourself and Holy Inquisitor?

Ask him such questions and wait for the day that he, perhaps, gives a real answer.

 

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Cf.  Manuel II Palaeologus Resources * The Papal Chrislamism * What have we done to Christianity..
Orthodoxy and Science : A changing relationship? * Papacy * Constantinople

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