“Oh, Thomas! The Archbishop is back again, return to France” (Part One, p.45) Are we sure that would not be these our words, if we were to return to Jesus? Dramatic contrast that many of us must hold in our minds! It is a verifiable fact that, currently, many do not mind the honor and the soul, perhaps because God does not care about, if not to brag to ignore or turn a matter of joke. Fortunately, not always the case, for the many who in various ways, we believe in a Supreme Being. However, every day we witness the mockery easy, but discredits those who practice and, perhaps lacking strongest arguments, uses this method to denigrate, outside the line of thought, the system is devastating effectively with the uncritical or unreflective. The reason for the success of this strategy, is caused by lack of rest and training of the individual, so thought settling slogans dominant through repeated and amplified over and over again. But there is a reason more powerful than those already exposed. And the annoying truth is that it forces us to confront ourselves, and we refuse to admit that we have replaced God, the idols of power, money, fame, sex, ideology, the desire to be gods, etc, dehumanized and seizing us to replace the real ethical or moral values. As Max Scheler said: “We are in the first period in which the man has become problematic in full and without crack, as well as not knowing what it is, you know you do not know.” The selfish attitude of wanting to accommodate religion to the personal convenience and cowardice to be branded as fanatics, is causing many Christians to become the main allies of the materialist view, acting as the priests of “Murder in the Cathedral “, which recommend to Thomas during wakefulness preceding the martyrdom,” which not fight what can not.
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