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Pope Benedict XVI, The Papal Science

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This profound [sic] sense of coherence within the universe of reason was not troubled, even when it was once reported that a colleague had said there was something odd about our university: it had two faculties devoted to something that did not exist: God. [Because God for us necessarily belongs to the Christian context, and because He can become a self-sufficient scientific hypothesis] that even in the face of such radical scepticism it is still necessary and reasonable to raise the question of God through the use of reason, and to do so in the context of the tradition of the Christian faith: this, within the university as a whole, was accepted without question.

 

Pope worships Reason in the temple of Reason, and starts to wonder that the modern world of science is hostile to faith: we are worshipping the same God, university is our common temple, why do you reject theology? It is inconsistent under your own criteria to reject this particularly the scientific hypothesis, and equally inconsistent even if only you reject it as a scientific hypothesis especially related for us to Christianity as such.

This is how madness aquires an astonishing reason! Because, indeed, anyone has the right to be hostile to the pope's sense of theology except for the university: here I am one of you, maybe the highest, maybe imaginary, but certainly one of the particles of your world, servant to your God, why do you reject me? Then you are not scientists, you are faithful to some other God, you are fanatical as the Muslims, your God is not reasoning anymore.

Interesting question, if someone thinks of it from an other point, it is interesting how happened and in the whole world, in all times, the papoprotestant tradition was the only one that had all the reasons not to reject its own God-Reason, and it managed to do it! The fact is so unique, that one enters the temptation to suppose, if perhaps reason by itself turns people away from God, and this is how papacy manages to slander the very reason that it worships. However explained, the fact is that papacy did have the children of its own science slandering God, and we trace somehow this sad history even in the present lecture, now turning to slander Byzantium:

 

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Cf.  Manuel II Palaeologus Resources * The Papal Chrislamism * What have we done to Christianity..
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