Should Existentialism Be Capitalized

God is modern

" O Regresso de Deus " (Quetzal) revela que o ateísmo cool é uma marca exclusivamente europeia. A Europa está sozinha na ilegalização de Deus . A modernidade tem várias faces.

Henrique Raposo (www.expresso.pt)

I. Following the idea of \u200b\u200b "Multiple Modernities" , Micklethwait and Wooldridge show something simple and obvious. One thing, though simple and obvious, is still denied by lenses European: modernity did not kill God . In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Europe's elite spent the end of religion as a compulsory trade mark of modernity. The formula was simple: modern society = society moving in the direction of despiritualization of community life. However, against the wishes of this theory, several companies (USA, India, Israel, China, Brazil, etc..) Reconcile modernity with faith. These companies are modern and religious absence here any insurmountable antagonistic dichotomy.

II. This means two things: (1) Europe alone in outlawing God. The European modernity is just that: a European modernity, not the universal model that everyone must follow. Modernity is plural. In other words, there Modernity , there are only modernities . (2) While Europe remained referee cultural world, both modern and religious America "could be dismissed as an oddity." Now in 2010 we can say the following: Europe is that it is an oddity, an oddity in the midst of a godless world of believers.

III. The Enlightenment always had American religion, unlike the European enlightenment. "The Return of God" shows - accurately - that the American vision of modernity won the European vision. As the defending founding fathers , the state must be secular, yes ma'am. More: the state should not avoid supporting this or that church. But this political secularism of the state should not require the forced secularization of society. State and society are different things. In short, secularism American won the European secularism (ie, French).

PS : There is much talk of the revival of Islam, for obvious reasons media. But after reading this book gets the impression that true revival is on the side of Christianity. Christianity is on the rise all over the world, including in China. The Chinese even have their Fatima e o seu "marianismo". E o cristianismo também conquistou o seu espaço na Índia. Ou seja, o cristianismo está em alta nos terrenos do costume (EUA, América do Sul), mas também está a ganhar espaço nos gigantes pagãos do Oriente.

Fonte: Expresso.pt