The Chilean writer Luis Sepulveda, author novels as "The Old Man Who Read Love Stories" and "Patagonia Express", has supported the protests of students and professors of the University 'La Sapienza Rome against the Pope's visit, writing from Gijon (city of Asturias, in Spain), a Chilean article published in "Le monde diplomatique. The article can be read in their original language at this address: http://www.lemondediplomatique.cl/Eppur-si-muove.html
Here is the translation from English:
yet it moves (in Italian in the text)
We know that older people have mental regression that take them, sometimes, to happier times, full and intense
of their lives. Something similar must have happened to Ratzinger when he said that at the time of Galileo, the church was more faithful to reason than Galileo himself. Sometimes
back to the happy years inquisitor during which raged, for example, against the advocates of liberation theology, that the mere exercise of reason that said to put next to the poor.
Or, worse yet, it is possible that his mental regressions bring back the days of the Hitler Youth when he accepted the right of Catholicism and took for the good fairy tale on which the Nazis, "by God to the king, the king the people and the people to the Führer. "
The University of Rome, in a 'perfect demonstration of force that can and should be civil and secular society, has forced the Vatican to terminate a Papal visit inexplicable, because if there is a place in the world which must remain free from lies, dogma and superstition, this is the University.
[...] The
example of what has happened in Rome should pave the way for a series of answers to questions that are in the air for a long time but which, or electoral calculations or lower his head for a politically correct , do not express aloud.
Some of these questions to which there can be no answer "until we can tolerate hordes of superstitious the dignity of women by attacking the clinics where abortion is practiced with diligence and make the exercise of legal right?
And until we allow a miserable with her skirt allow you to compare homosexuality with pedophilia?
And as long as we tolerate that the clergy describes itself champion of human rights and assert that secularism, the essence of democracy, puts them in danger? "
We can not grant authority and we can not give you much listening, when it comes to sex, persons who have renounced it and see it only as a reproductive function.
We can not allow human rights are invoked by those who not only closed their eyes when they were violated, but opened them very good to see the evil they were criminals, and to secure from them a reward in exchange of silence.
This made the Catholic Church in Franco's Spain, this did Pius XII during the Nazi era, so did the Catholic Church blesses the bombing in Vietnam, this was the behavior of the Catholic Church in Argentina, where he performed before and during the torturers " purifying mission "in secret prisons.
By her example, the 'University of Rome tells us that the defense of the state and non-denominational lay back d be an urgent task, because secularism is the last thing left to preserve this erie of achievements that are called Rights Rights and Freedoms.
The steady weakening of the state, due to globalization and the consequent politicization of the economy is yielding functions (so you do privatization) ultinazionali to companies that do not tolerate neither moral nor ethical, because their only purpose is profit, and leaves the company ndifesa in hand with superstition. It is no coincidence the delirium of Ratzinger in despising the reason for Galileo. And it was not even the videoconferencing ua participation in the first act of the election campaign of the English right, arties by the bishops. Nothing that makes the Catholic church, on this gigantic multinational headquarters in the Vatican, including banks, including Mafia connections, is random, and certainly does not obey divine aspirations.
The clergy know that the deepening freedoms of society, the achievement of civil rights, education
growth based on values \u200b\u200band not on folkloric traditions, as the fruit gives companies itelligenti, curious, able to accept the future as a collective challenge and not as a fatality. Ratzinger and the Vatican will be able to order the young University of Rome (already did the cowardly Prodi in his own way), women who abort exercising their right to be master of his own body, the guys who study citizenship education the judges who marry each other same-sex, scientists doing research with stem cells, but it is clear that, just as Galileo said: moves yet.
Luis Sepúlveda
Gijón, 16 de enero de 2008
(translation by L. Pasqualini)
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