Bobbio This other passage well expresses what have long advocated, one point of contact between believers and nonbelievers: the sense of mystery and humility that requires both the believer, the atheist and the believer.
"I'm not a man of faith, I am a man of reason and distrust of all faiths, but the distinction religion from religiosity .
Religion means to me, simply have a sense of its limits , know that human reason is a small little light that illuminates an area lowest compared to the grandeur, the immensity of the universe . The only thing I'm sure, always staying within the limits of my mind - why not stress this enough: I'm not a man of faith, have faith is something that belongs to a world that is not mine - that is, if anything I live the sense of mystery, which is obviously common to both the man of reason that man of faith. The difference is that the man of faith fills this mystery with revelations and truth that is from above, and which I can not convince [...] But when I feel I have come to end of life without finding an answer to the ultimate questions, my intelligence is humiliated. humiliated. And I accept this humiliation. I accept it. And do not try to escape this humiliation with faith through streets that I can not go. Rest of the man of my limited reason - and humiliated. I do not know. I call this "my religion".
[...] I do not think [...] I also grew up, as almost everyone in this country, in a Catholic family, and I had a Catholic background. Prayers, prayers, prayers ... so I have repeated (in Latin, as was once, in Italian) that the I have almost forgotten. I made my first communion, and a religious marriage (even though my wife is not a believer).
And to the question of when and why I lost my faith is not easy to answer. Maybe about twenty. Of course, the study of philosophy, too. All these questions about the problems of metaphysics, so to speak, and realize that the answers of faith implied beliefs are difficult to accept.
The belief in miracles, for example, a rationalist is the most absurd thing. The same is the need to believe in what every reason appears to be a myth, starting with the original sin [...] I continued to reflect on the great issues of religion and none of the answers I was never convinced [...] Science has made some progress. Faith does not respond to questions, he can only avoid . This is its advantage and its weakness , at least in front of people who believe that the only legitimate light - however small - with which we can say yes or no, true or false, is the reason. And the experience. The reason and experience are the two lights of man as it is. Religion is a human creation "
(" Religion and religiosity, "witness appeared MicroMega No 2 / 2000, pp. 7-10).
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