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Not Copernican

During his visit to England, the Pope has his view on the ratio of the cath. Church to modern reason and secularism clarified. It sounds no longer so new, but it's the old familiar sounds of Roman Catholicism: The reason is well under the roof of the faith or the church. It states: "Benedict XVI on Friday in London once again called upon to confront moral relativism and secularism.." (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from 18.09.2010 p. 4) In view of the deficiencies in the moral standards during the recent global economic crisis, the corrective to the church was missing: "Without the corrective of religion can degenerate reason, become an inhuman ideology, as in totalitarian regimes of the 20th century. Christians in public positions should always act according to their conscience. "This is the role of religion in politics, the Pope said." Strong stuff. Since flight are all the mistakes of the 20th Century, the "secularism" attributed, ie the autonomous critical reason of the Enlightenment. Horkheimer hello. Se les extrèmes touchent. That Rome in the stabilization of this "totalitarian" by concordats played a major role, is hidden. The confessions of Vatican II were probably also more concessions, which are often taken back.

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harnessing religion

In a remarkable contribution to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ, 09.16.2010) has Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde , former Judge of the Federal Constitutional Court, the question of whether religions are perhaps "unreformable. The question is not rhetorical, given the virulence of a Muslim and a rise of Christian fundamentalism. Böckenförde discussed under the heading "Cleanse" the confrontation of the Roman Catholic Church with the idea of religious freedom and autonomy, as he has in modern thought of the Enlightenment figure won. After much internal resistors have the papal church in the 2nd Vatican to declare after all won through to that "establishes the right to religious freedom in the true dignity of the human person, as this is revealed by the Word of God and is recognized by reason. "He calls this the" Copernican revolution "of the church for the recognition of the civil right of a reason-led autonomy of man, his freedom and dignity. The Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI. this position would be confirmed if is formulated: ". ... on the other hand, need the real achievements of the Enlightenment, human rights and especially the freedom of belief and practice as essential elements, especially for the authenticity of religion are taken" Böckenförde evaluates this behavior a major faith community as a successful example of a long, arduous Dialogue "and concludes entirely modern, dass .. not a purification of reason by faith, but a purification of the faith has taken place through reason -. a blessing for the religion "


Böckenförde, allowing it to consider how they are similar Jürgen Habermas has expressed several times in the last 10 years (for example, in his acceptance speech the peace prize winner in 2001 or in his review for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung of 2007). In the "acceptance speech" describes he process of secularization and the discussion of Christian faith communities with the natural law of modern times and with the ideologically neutral, liberal constitutional state as a "reflection boost," which ultimately had a "pacification" and "the world's civilizing power in" the result. Fast Habermas notes laconically: "Without this reflection develop thrust, the monotheisms ruthlessly modernized societies in a destructive potential." Elsewhere, Habermas speaks of the need for "containment" of religion by the state constitution guaranteeing religious freedom (see the essay collection "Between Naturalism and Religion ", Frankfurt 2005). Commonly discussed these comments by Jürgen Habermas in terms of a new appreciation of religion in general, as indeed already in the title phrase of the NZZ contribution" An awareness of what is missing "it is clear . That may be a philosopher, the one used casually to represent the Marxist corner, be remarkable. For Habermas, as well as for Böckenförde as a critical-liberal philosophers in with the modern-Enlightenment tradition but also clear and obvious that achievement this "cleaning" or "pacification" by the modern, rational thinking led in the field of religion is.

I am inclined to the face of global Islamism and the massive presence of an anti-modern, fundamentalist Christianity in the USA and in Africa, Asia - and not least us - the "destructive potential" of the major religions not to lose sight of. There are not only the "fundamentalists" and radical conservatives who win places at influence , but it is about the particular monotheistic religions inherent potential for violence that has been pacified by modern reason and fenced in and are limited in the future needs. The Egyptologist and religious scholars Jan Assmann has in his investigations of the "Mosaic distinction" (Munich 2003) and "rule and salvation" (Munich 2000) once stated very clearly: "Judaism was only the heathen in his own heart is interested , not to the heathen round about policy in the outside world. All the more then Christianity and Islam have written the political theology of violence to suppress the heathen round about on their flags. The violence of their God against the other gods gives them the right to practice violence against people who follow other gods in their eyes. Behind this lies the distinction between truth and falsehood, the monotheistic religion, and only bearing it .... If you want to save the monotheistic idea, then you have to divest it of its inherent violence. "(Jan Assmann, H & H, p. 263f.). That is the point today. The struggle of the " Tea Party movement " in the U.S. is also a religious struggle against the modern liberalism of the modern age and is a lot of money and use extreme out. The fundamentalists sit among us . Since it does not help when a friendly Margot Kaessmann from the U.S. over it smiles. The positive potential of religion really need a "purification of the faith through reason," as Böckenförde writes. This is more necessary than ever if we want religion to be a blessing.