Catholicism and Protestantism in the Face of the Coronavirus: Two Democratic Ways of Being and Facing Illness?

 


Life is a constant demand for compatibility with the real world. Life demands many things, but among all, it demands an unavoidable and decisive one: the demand to be compatible with reality. And I warn that compatibility should not be confused with adaptation, much less with submission or servility.

In fact, one stops living when one renounces that faculty of compatibility with the real, and consequently loses — due to lack of use — the power to become compatible with the reality of the world. Because reality is never ambiguous or deceitful. Nor does it allow survival for those who become incompatible with it. Ambiguous and deceitful are the people who, induced by their individual problems and particular insufficiencies, seek each other to subvert the collective life of others. The emotional and intellectual deficiencies of many individuals distort, deceitfully and ambiguously, everyone's reality.

Catholicism and Protestantism are more than just two different religions. They are much more than two divergent ways of interpreting Christianity as religion, theology, and behavior. Catholicism and Protestantism are two political hegemonies not only very different but above all, insoluble with each other. Protestantism was never a reform of Catholicism but an ultra-feudal and backward reaction to it. It is Christianity's dead-end. It is a theology that has lost reason. It is the first step towards German Idealism. Luther is Kant's father.

Protestantism was a return to the ...

 

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