Still God?
But the young people still interested in a discourse about God? That is, the young "normal", what they study and work (and maybe not studying and not working), what he seeks his own way in life, and maybe get busy his appointment this "search for meaning" happiness. God has to do with the meaning and happiness?
And if the young man has also internalized the culture that breathes that God is dead (or is unwell, Woody Allen would say), that has nothing to do with life, which is far, which is a human opponent, as various " scientists' and philosophers now claim, and therefore we could live the way and also look for happiness (or better) without God? And if the young man, even the well-Catholic, has doubts and wants to see clearly or at least more clear? And then, it is true that it is necessary to silence the reason to understand and accept God? It, if it is used seriously and thoroughly, God rejects the hypothesis, and let the weak, the simpletons, who has no courage?
And why should God be better than nothing, better than the one God of many, Christianity is not a religion among many, Jesus Christ, "God really for the man"? It implies something really believe? The magazine "Notes of youth ministry," a magazine for educators of young people, serious about these questions, consider it a major challenge to be welcomed and to answer honestly. As with all questions of young people.
To talk with the young doubters, in research, to account for the hope (faint) that might have, NPG offers an address book, edited by a philosopher of religion that is on the side of reason and not hiding under the tenets of faith , for accompany the reflection and research. Month after month, from November 2009 to December 2010, ten big bets on as many questions that young people often place themselves and they would like answers convincing, reasonable, not close the search. It 'a proposal suggesting that confidence in young people, and their intelligence. Why, young, do not use this column in youth and educational groups, university groups?
Why, young people, teachers of religion do not suggest a serious path, based, provocative?
Giancarlo De Nicolo
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d. Louis
am on November 7th, 2009 @ 23:47
... That is on the side of reason and not hiding under the tenets of faith
Almost that dogmas were unreasonable ...?
In my little experience, young people in serious research and real questions ... I have always given and only "dogma" Truth revealed and unavailable. Only in the Gospel of Christ have found real answers.
Everything is to see these young people pose questions such as, what they are looking, where they want to reach.
Christ was very clear in Chieri and S. Gospel, has watered down the truth about man ...