Europe, democracy and Christianity.

 (Europa, democracia y cristianismo.)

 

A anti-Christian culture can have a base of Christian origin? For a priori yes, denial. In the same way that hatred can sometimes come from a previous love. But it may turn anti-Christian civilization through neglect and ignorance of those forced to act and learn. He wrote Jose Orlandis[i] on Christian birth of Europe and the historical distortion is denying it, but how far are too many European sectors of the Gospel. And, given the negative influence of these sectors, too many Christians remain outside. Some, through ignorance of background ideologies that sustain them and their aspirations. Others, insane belief that you have to respect any ideas, because that would be tolerance, when the latter, if true, what really is to protect people, through understanding and reason, even of destructive beliefs they hold.

Hilarie Belloc[ii] said, nearly a century ago, that the Faith is Europe and Europe is the Faith. For him, only the Catholic had the ability to understand what was really the European culture. And that's not as contempt of views outside the Catholic but by the interweaving of Catholicism with the genesis and development of the European community. And from this conviction, we can say that the greatest responsibility of all that is happening is ours, of Catholics, of what we do and stop doing. There is to stay out for an itch falsely democratic, based on the conviction that not being clerical is the same as no stress in defense of our convictions. Or worse, based on the comfort of assuming that the Church is indestructible and that the waters will return to normal by themselves. I say worse because the Church will live until the end of time, but that does not need Europe and, instead, it will not survive with a gut anti-Catholic.

This story comes to demand for Cristina Cifuentes and Angel Garrido that in the next Congress in Seville, remove the word Christian in the paper which defines the Popular Party. Without going into beliefs that may have both proponents, unknown to me, would be sad and nonsense that such a request prosper. Not only for the above, but because it is confusing religion with Christian humanism and the values it defends. Moreover, should not withdraw the adjective, but add the European, because that would be a more accurate and complete. Hopefully the many Catholics who are of that party not stay away and prevent that, far from being a tolerant modification, is a full-blown ideological manipulation. A humanism that was not Christian and therefore, not European, would be nothing more than a grotesque caricature.

Pepe de Brantuas. February 2012, in Spain.