The City of Vicenza and the Ecumenical Center Eugenius IV organized for Sunday, March 20, 2011 in the new municipal theater citizen VII inter-religious meeting on "Who is God to you?". Initiative were invited Sikhs, Hindus, Muslims and Christians, of course.
I received a free ticket to the staff entrance to the theater and since, by temperament and conviction have always been used to justify my actions, I must explain why, while thanking, I will not accept the invitation.
I - falls into These days, the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy that, in institutional settings in which it was celebrated, not to become a manifestation of generic rhetoric of patriotism and good feeling empty content was presented as an opportunity to mobilize the Italian people around the values \u200b\u200bof the republican constitution formed by anti fascist resistance and logical conclusion of that great process of national liberation was the Italian Risorgimento. If the mayor of Vicenza and his council wanted to give life to an initiative by promoting the encounter between the religions of the "new Italians" was an obvious reference to those articles of the Constitution relating to aliens, as beings certain inviolable human rights are recognized, was exemplary initiative in which Sikh, Hindu, Muslim and Christians outside the Roman Catholic Church could represent the extreme hardship that together substantial feel in the face of Article 19 of the Constitution inapplicable "Everyone has the right to profess freely their religion, on an individual associated in the public and private, to have the necessary places of worship provided they are not contrary to public morality. I believe that this initiative would have been much appreciated by their Creator with an event that, at best, vaguely folk will be an occasion to another to exhibit in public his "ecumenical vocation."
II - An initiative to defend the most important human rights, religious freedom, which is the highest manifestation of the freedom of thought, would have been much more necessary for a general exchange of views on the idea that each has of God, especially when one considers that the issue of religious freedom no political force in Italy demonstrates the commitment no matter how small, while in fact a subversive and anti-national force like the Northern League for the Independence of Padania does not lack for opportunity to take its representatives institutions, regional advisers to the mayors efforts to prevent the exercise of that freedom in the name of "Judeo-Christian roots" of Italy. Concerning in particular the Muslims could do a long list of violations of the freedom registratesi in the province of Vicenza, and also in the capital: starting with the fact that one is forced to hide the identity of places of worship (which in Islam is mosques called) under the label of cultural center, an association of social initiative and the like, not to mention the systematic hammering on some local press that is dedicated to vilify, to falsify, and in the worst way to present the contents of the Islamic faith and the characteristics anthropology of one who professes.
III - Why is the mayor of Vicenza who also said in an interview he did not know the Islamic community Vicenza to defer indefinitely the uncertainty surrounding the feasibility of a non-Catholic cemetery to bury the corpses of those who were not Catholic, and that so far has never deigned to have a meeting to be Courtesy also with representatives of the Muslim community (about 7000 people in the city), it is promoting an initiative on the following title: "Muslim, Sikh, Hindu, Orthodox and Protestant Christians, Jehovah's Witnesses, Evangelicals: meeting undertake an initiative to protect religious freedom for all "? Such an initiative would be much richer in spirit of ecumenical and inter religious unnecessary disquisition on the nature of "anthropological" of differences and, above all, it would really contribute to that integration of immigrants into Italian society, giving the character the only differences that can assimilate: the full enjoyment of rights enshrined in the Constitution.
I know that all too many hypocrites in our country, and call themselves Christians forget that Jesus, blessed be his name, he used the strongest words against the hypocrites, they will respond with the usual threadbare argument that in countries of the Islamic religion Freedom of worship is not granted to religions other than Islam. Apart from the groundless and pretext argument, contradicted by many Christian churches exist in the world where Islam is professed, we would ask this group of hypocrites what should be done taking into account that in Italy most of the U.S. force in the death penalty should be reintroduced, perhaps against citizens American convicted in our country? In other words: flattened at the positions of those who practice barbarism. I have received recent information from China and the terrible country where human rights are denied, there is a capital named Beijing where there are Buddhist pagodas, Hindu temples, Muslim mosques, Catholic churches and Christians in general. And what of the tremendous Ayatollah of Iran, where Christians are quietly allowed to grow vines for the wine extract use in the Eucharist even though it is an alcoholic beverage is prohibited by Islam? They know the League crypto Nazi (sometimes confess) who sit third in the Iranian parliament members of the Jewish religion guaranteed by the Constitution? And you know, always the League that in most work places of the Muslim countries Christians are granted permission on the job to attend Sunday Mass? I can shorten a conference sponsored by the democratic institutions and political forces in Vicenza: "Against Hypocrisy!"
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