Ateísmo, cristianismo, falta de significado e pobreza de espírito

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Ateísmo, cristianismo, falta de significado e pobreza de espírito

por Samuel de Paiva Pires, em 29.05.12

Mark Vernon, How to be an Agnostic:

«What is missing is meaning. A materialistic humanism finds it hard to address the questions of morality, values and spirit. Following the scientific rationalism it holds in high regard, it tends to boil it all down to a discussion of mechanism, rules and laws. This may create an illusion of understanding and a sense of purpose. But meaningless keeps rearing its head because, well, mechanisms, rules and laws are actually not very meaningful. This is why atheism felt like a poverty of spirit to me. This is why ‘Why? Is the cry of our age and we are no longer quite sure who we are. Sisyphus is our hero: forcing the boulder of his humanity to the top of a mountain, hoping to lend it the authority of a high place, only to see it roll down again. In truth, it’s absurd, as Camus realized – and only a few can honestly stomach that thought. ‘Thus wisdom wishes to appear most bright when it doth tax itself,’ says Angelo in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure.

What is doubly distressing is that contemporary Christian discourse often sounds the same way too. It readily loses its humanity and resorts to the same discussion of mechanisms (being saved), rules (being good) and laws (being right). In so doing, it empties itself out.»

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De FR a 29.05.2012 às 13:50

You can easily reverse the last premise in order to (further) discredit the idea of radical scientific rationalism. It is in fact scientific rationalism which resorts to the discussion of mechanism (yet, without a purpose), rules (supported by a notion of good which is, well, non-existant) and laws (that amount to a moral code unsubstantiated by the lack of an ethical background that actually holds any meaning).

The sense of meaning, which is inseparable of the Christian discourse, is based on the goal of salvation, supported by a defined notion of good - God - which is imprinted in the human soul, and is converted into a palpable code of conduct which has literally been written in stone.

What scientific rationalism is missing is meaning, even though this missing element is often disguised by borrowing the meaning underlying the Christian discourse.

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