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of the doctor Silvana De Mari
We have thrown away our place as a child of God to become a child in an orphanage… Let's start again from the rosary

Ha mirror Konrad Lorenz, in The Eight Deadly Sins of Our Civilization, that a civilization is like an ecosystem. When you suppress something in an ecosystem, something that seemed useless or irrational or harmful, absolutely unexpected catastrophes can result, completely involuntary and delightfully irreversible. A civilization is like a tapestry: a thread is cut in one place and half the tapestry falls apart.
As Chesterton's good soul said, before pulling down a fence, ask yourself the question of why it was built. Maybe it's true that it's useless now, but it might not be, so ask yourself this question, and start telling yourself right away that if the only answer that comes to mind is that you are certainly much more intelligent than your ancestors who were idiots, that answer is wrong.
A civilization has formed over centuries and all the pieces make sense.
With this I do not mean that societies must remain immobile and always identical to themselves, otherwise we have terrifying circular civilizations where everyone always does the same things. The operation, but, made with the Enlightenment first and then with '68 – that is, to denigrate and deny religiosity, the myth, the ritual, without even wondering why they were born, what were all their meanings and advantages, without even having a doubt that there was a meaning and an advantage somewhere – it was suicide. I'm making an absolutely secular statement, which has value even for non-believers. Read More