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Foglia

On the occasion of the canonization of Brother Andrew Foglia returns on atheism, his in particular, in his column Tuesday, October 19 ( Around brother Andrew ). Honestly, I admit I was shocked to learn that the renowned columnist of The Press has never questioned the existence of God! Foglia What is an atheist, that's not the issue since it is not no secret to anyone. That, however, Foglia says it has ever questioned the existence of God, then confess fell off my chair. How can a man like him can never have asked such a question? I meet many young adults in my classes in college, and they are rare, very rare, those that are posed such questions "existential." That, however, a man of letters and culture as Foglia who has never questioned God, literally blows me away! I venture to think that it is once again a joke as well if Foglia Masters art. I do not doubt for a moment that the columnist was asked if God exists and he has probably answered no to such an extent that everything happened to him as if this question had never touched the mind. In sum, this is a way to affirm a hardcore atheist. Foglia is obviously a man of "faith" - that of 'non-faith. "

What troubles me Foglia quip is that, regardless of whether or not believing it, it seems that the question of the existence of God is an important issue any man worthy of the name should be a day or the other and be able to appreciate the richness of meaning. The teacher of philosophy I'm splits the soul to appreciate the young adult issues gnawing sense of man since time immemorial. If the question seems so awkward and embarrassing for the man of scrupulous non-faith Foglia what he considers that raised Leibniz in his Principles of Nature and Grace founded because (1714): "... why there something rather than nothing? ... also assume that things must exist, we must be able to reason why they should exist as well, and not otherwise. "In the opinion of many, this is the ultimate philosophical question. Thus, if God exists, why should there be? What is the rationale for its existence? Why God is there? That is what holds the question of Leibniz, and she deserves our attention and our respect. It I think the person who asks this question and attempts to answer realizes his true nature is that of being a man or a woman.

When young, I work with, teach me, without feeling any shame, they never listened to Bach or Beethoven, and that they never want to listen, I tell myself that 'there is the immense loss of a piece of the culture that shapes the beings we are and who gives value. This saddens me deeply. Prisoners of Plato's cave are far from being mere fictions. When a journalist patented, top of its platform, delivers his state of mind on an issue that has never had the audacity to ask and discuss its merits, and that the good people meekly acquiesces to his nonsense, you can not note that the state of degeneration of the general culture.

André Pratte also absolutely right: the miracle of a resurrection of the Catholic Church in Quebec will not take place (Editorial Press Monday 18 October). Not because, as suggested by Pratte, Andre's brother "belongs to another era" and that "philosophy of life advocated by the 'miracle worker Mount Royal 'finds little resonance today. " Simply because there are issues we no longer want to ask because it is realized now that they are outdated, obsolete. Foglia Pratte and are part of these destroyers of the Church.

Voltaire, who passes for the skeptic of the Enlightenment, wrote: "The world embarrasses me and I can not think / What are the clock and watchmaker has point." But the lights are behind us. The man of today goes far beyond anything that could have been imagined Voltaire - whose forget the great philosophical questions. The Age of Darkness is not the title of a film.