Pope warns of a drift into a ‘desert of godlessness’ | theage.com.au.
Increasingly, secular Western societies risked drifting into a “desert of godlessness”, Pope Benedict XVI warned in an uncompromising Good Friday address.
At last, pope bendydick admits that chrisitianity is on the way out. The place I want to see is free from the ridiculous notion of god. Pope babes says that our life together is being increasinlgy secularised, that’s a good thing, I don’t think he agrees. He says that religious life grows diffident, which I think means its not being treated too well.
“When things that are most holy and profound in the faith are being trivialised, the sense of the sacred is allowed to erode. Everything in public life risks being desacralised: persons, places, pledges, prayers, practices, words, sacred writings, religious formulas, symbols, ceremonies.”
Again, he’s got it right, the sense of the sacred is allowed to erode. I hope its eroding. There’s no such thing as sacred, its a human construct. Again, my hope for humanity is that everything in public life becomes desacralised. Holding a part of our society as above the rest of what we do, as something that requires extra respect is wrong. Religion should hold no claim to be treated differently, especially chrisitianity. As it is we have a system that grants them concessions in taxation, employment and the right to discriminate. They get to break the rules that everyone else has to follow, all in the name of their faith, a faith that is based on the ramblings of several goat herders from thousands of years ago.
I hope that the days of letting crusty old men wearing stupid clothes telling us how to live will pass away and we’ll be left with a world that cares for each other, not because they think that by doing so their god will be kept happy, but because we know its the way to treat each other.
Bring on a sacredless world. As soon as we can.