The Religious Sense
A book by Luigi Giussani, and is part of a three-part series meant to communicate the reasonableness of "the Christian fact". In this volume, he does it more precisely through one's experience of one's own humanity.
Some parts from it which I noticed, and decided to point out :)
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Structurally man waits; structurally he is a beggar; structurally life is a Promise.
"You know I don't believe in a God, Grandmama."
"You don't know what you talking about. Ain't not way possible for you not to believe in God. It ain't up to you."
"Who's it up to then?"
"It's up to the life in you - the life in you. That knows where it comes from, that believes in God."
The human being- the concrete human person, me, you - once we were not, now we are, and tomorrow will no longer be: thus we depend. And either we depend upon the flux of our material atecedents, and are consequently slaves of the powers that be, or we depend upon what lies at the origin of the movement of all things, beyond them, which is to say, God.
The awe, the marvel of this reality which imposes itself upon me, of this presence which reaches me is at the origin of the awakening of human consciousness.
...the very first sense of the human being is that of facing a reality which is not his, which exists independently of him, and upon which he depends. Empirically translated, it is the original perception of a given.
There is a hiatus, an abyss, a void between the intution of truth, of being - given by reason - and the will, a disassociation between reason, the perception of being, and will, which is affectivity, that is to say, the energy of adhesion to being. Because of this, one sees the reasons, but still does not move, that is to say, lacks the energy to be coherent... It is this coherence that initiates the human being's unity. Coherence is the energy with which man takes hold of himself and adheres, "fastens on" to what reason lets him see.
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8:14 PM
Random Quotes from Brave New World
He was as miserably isolated now as he had been when the service began- more isolated by reason of his unreplenished emptiness, his dead satiety.
He had emerged from that crimson twilight into the common electric glare with a self consciousness intensified to the pitch of agony. He was utterly miserable, and perhaps
perhaps it was his own fault.
Sensitivity is not enough to allow one to do well in literature. One still needs to be able to express what he senses and mash it into something understandable by the others.
Sometimes.... such can't be achieved until someone actually comes to you and say that, He understands.
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12:25 AM
Do you hate Christians?
Well, not that you need to in this la. lol.. but in any case -
Please help with
my survey on the Impressions of Christianity! Annddd, bug all your friends about it on msn (Christian -haters are especially welcomed!*)
I extend my thanks and grattitude in advance =) *bows*
*Eh. Let me qualify - I haven't renouced my faith -_-
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6:49 PM
Injustice
What prompted me to think about this about two days ago, was my mom's account about the newly admitted Indonesian girl patient at her hospital who came for treatment. Robbers had climbed into her home through the window and demanded for money. Her grandmother had helplessly given them everything, finding for all that they wanted in the house. Then the robbers noticed the girl and then they assulted her... ignoring that they were ruining the life of this twelve year old, ignoring that they were doing it in front of her own grandmother, ignoring that they were doing it in her own home. Argh.
It is very, very clear in the finite human perspective - life is not fair.
From what was given or not given at birth to the situations that chance upon individuals regardless of how bad a person they seemingly are - there doesn't seem to be any indicator that theres a force which is moderating the bad guys and policing the evilness. Be it a moral injustice, a personal injustice, an academic injustice - different degrees of intensity and importance towards humanity perhaps, but ultimately, we still don't like it.
It is betrayal. But betrayal on the level of something higher than an explict agreement - it is the betrayal of the ideals of our humanity. The betryal of the concepts which we recognise and respect as a person.
Injustice is ironically done by passing a flawed judgement onto something - thus mainfesting into a flawed action. But ultimately.. Perfect Judgement will be the one that will appease those flawed actions in the end.
And beautifully, by the Cross - it was the injustice itself that revealed the superiority of Justice and the clear indication of Hope that Justice will be served in His time.
"What shall I do, then, with Jesus who is called Christ?" Pilate asked.
They all answered, "Crucify him!"
"Why? What crime has he committed?" asked Pilate.
But they shouted all the louder, "Crucify him!"
When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that instead an uproar was starting, he took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd. "I am innocent of this man's blood," he said. "It is your responsibility!"
All the people answered, "Let his blood be on us and on our children!"
Then he released Barabbas to them. But he had Jesus flogged, and handed him over to be crucified.
-- Matthew 27:22-26
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