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November 2010: Pensions that damage on your behalf

to encourage theology

I intend to publish here, ten times a year, a text theological or spiritual, of the minutes of critical readings. I am a Protestant culture, but my question is about how Christianity can s'anticiper today. Such, perspective can not accommodate a purely religious or dogmatic attitude.

I draw inspiration from the biblical source unsurpassable and I lean against the Christian tradition of which I am involved. At the same time, I saw Voltage current incompleteness of reality and truth (which is different from doubt), with other religions and cultures, modernity and postmodernity.

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RETREATS THAT YOUR NAME damage in

I feel uncomfortable in the balance of power and strength tests on the socio-political. In any other field (sports, science, business, economy ...) I do not feel the discomfort. I recognize the reality of the struggle for life that underlies our individual behavior and for which there rules, laws and even aid agencies and relief. Any person or group with power is tempted to abuse, endangering the economic infrastructure of a country to prevent a pension law for a vote of the elected assemblies, can it be justified?

In the open conflict in our country on the occasion of the Pensions Act, I have heard and seen many things: *

the government has consulted with the unions, but he did not open negotiations with them (is that the demographic and economic conditions being what they are such a negotiation might have given birth to a fundamentally different from that against which they fight?)

* the government is acting in an authoritarian technocrat (it is true that it is composed of people who have never known-or even their parents already do it is to be paid!)

* the role of the state is not to be judge and party in the conflict, but the referee;

* we do not want to complicate the lives of our people by strikes (but in fact we complicate) we do not jeopardize the growth of France (but the result is that and, today, any increases due to rising fuel ¬ rants), "I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want "(Rom. 7, 19);

* we are not asking for the withdrawal of the project, but a substantive amendment / or: we do not want amendments, but the complete removal and simple project and we have no plans to make the revolution (but if this could be the prelude to the Grand Soir it seems to us the logic of history);

* the government's refusal to open negotiations made him take full responsibility for economic and social damage accrued (in a conflict, ie in a battle where everyone is guaranteed the right and decided not to let it go, responsibilities are always shared) *

to finance retirement, you only take the money where it is (before he went abroad);

* in reporting collected on the "base" (is it "the people"?) I heard about intelligent and measured "Reform is unfair (but this is the international market and even the global mindset that are distorted by the greed of people money and the imperialism of trade). I also saw the faces of hatred and heard speeches that expressed resentment that had nothing to do with the Pensions Act. For some, it should not harm the movement to France, for others it was necessary to topple the government, for still others, it was necessary to destabilize the state give way to a revolutionary political alternative.

* the movement against the Act retirement has been widely echoed in the mass of our countrymen committed to justice, security and "good life" but also worried about the future (especially youth). Perhaps such a reform touches our deepest fantasies: a foreign observer said, a few years ago: "The religion of the French, it is the holidays." How many people have expressed, would on strike against a bill that would have been racist overtones against a government officer or nationalistic, against an irresponsible economic policy, how many citizens they mobi ¬ isent for our compatriots held hostage?

These various echoes reveal a) the actual weight of the arguments, b) the mass of workers who vote on strike if it is unanimous on what to destroy is not what it should be built c) there are no real social dialogue in our country and, perhaps, no dialogue possible or desirable given the attitudes of both sides, d) the same individual or corporate interests override all sense of common good.

economic damage, social damage, moral damage, impaired the image of our country abroad, we must face it now, hoping that it will not snowball.

For this, they are not new laws, new elections, new economies we need first, but a civic education. Where is he that is not done? Can it compete with the information and the fictions that television gives us to see?

A misconception and bad practice of the separation of theology and politics, to which we are attached properly, means that the message of our churches is confined to the individual and our interpersonal relationships (in a personalistic way home, in a moral sense among "evangelicals"), while in Judaism and Islam we do not hesitate to make political pulpit. The separation of theology and politics for a word frees us of political ethics. Why do our churches do not they take the head of reflection and action on a revolution that would be more "bourgeois" popular "," populist "or proletarian, but a citizen, ethics on political ethics, social and economic (revolution would, thus, truly "the people" and popular)? A citizens' revolution is a form of civic cultural revolution.

Should we be afraid to "suffer with those who suffer," "with Christ", ie with small, poor, the marginalized, the persecuted, "the faith" (1 Cor 12, 26; 2 Thessalonians 1, 5, 2 Tim 1.8; 2, 12, 1 Pi 2, 19-21, 4, 1, 4, 19, Ap 2, 3 and 10). ? In this case, witnesses to the Word, are we prepared to be harassed for daring to say (not judgmental, but with the distance that gives us faith versus politics) in our churches, among us, around us, that in our country:

*** there more people, more than citizenship, more civility, more dialogue, more respect of the opponent, largely because, by dint of being limited to the private sphere, there is no more common form of spiritual life, but, instead, the return of sensitivity magical and superstitious;

*** there is more understanding of the common good in the short, medium, long term, our gods are money, strength, power, and in one camp as in the other rule individual interests, corporatist, caste, ideology, the government side, there is a quasi-authoritarian absolutist side of popular movements a quasi-social economic terrorism;

*** there, from officials at all levels, no effort to open the minds of our fellow citizens on the changes of our time which are across the world, no courage to face them, no desire to participate, to draw a emulation, instead of suffering; we shall be a demagogic speech, language or tranquilizer, from political speeches to the advertisements, we are left believing in Father Christmas "France Mother letters, weapons and laws. Nations of human rights. Haven. Country of good living, "and we fall asleep in our mentality a wrong hex restless sleep of social upheavals.

When we wake up, it will be too late and our churches, carried by the wave, can only find that they have failed in their vocation. The separation of theology and politics, we can make to those watching, not a prophetic word pretentious, but simply present .

Jacques Gruber

Other texts available via email : Evidence; elections or plebiscites; Where do we stand with the truth? ; Protestants, the souk, Jews and Christians, the divergence of monotheism (first and second parts) The Don and attention; Holy Spirit, who are you, what are you doing? ; Send Church (s) What is believed Jesus entering Jerusalem; Messages for highlights of the year; Am I a creationist? ; Confession of Faith, Evangelism, Forgiveness, The Shipyard, Grace; Easter A vision for the world; Riches roadmap of Jesus, Open Letter to my Catholic friends, the Merciful; Led by the Spirit; Contemporaries distant (Benedict XVI and me) For an entry; The trickery of Calvin, Rome and Canterbury; Woes ; Woes (continued) Easter 2010; Remember and learn, Buddha or Jesus, Buddhism, the narrow gate; Berlin.

the same author: Hear the Word. The inner witness of the Holy Spirit, Paris, Editions du Cerf, 2005,
"You will be my witnesses." For a time of confusion and change, Paris, Editions Cerf, 2009.

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October 2010: busy days in Berlin

to encourage theology

I intend to publish here, ten times a year, a text theological or spiritual, of the minutes critical reading. I am a Protestant culture, but my question is about how Christianity can s'anticiper today. Such, perspective can not accommodate a purely religious or dogmatic attitude.

I draw inspiration unsurpassable source of biblical and I lean against the Christian tradition of which I am involved. At the same time, I saw blood in the incompleteness of the current reality and truth (which is different from doubt), with other religions and cultures, modernity and postmodernity.

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DAYS WELL SATISFIED A BERLIN

Between the two national days of protest against the reform of the pension, my wife and I were able to respond to an invitation to Berlin for four days.

We benefited from good weather in September and Franco-German cousins that have allowed us to explore the city without too much fatigue and with all skills desirable.

Berlin, completely rebuilt by the best contemporary architects, retains some monuments "kitsch" of the Wilhelmine era, but, overall, she lost the weight Germanic found in other Germanic cities. The graphs and tags adorn not only the remnants of the disaster "wall" which cut the city into two (following a path fractal wish) for twenty years, they are also found everywhere, as with us, and the subway is not cleaner in Paris. Of the many museums of the city, we visited the Pergamon Museum . German archaeologists have reconstructed from scattered remains, from the sands of the Middle East, sets the size of a building, such as the Pergamon Altar (Rev 1, 11, 2, 12), Gate market of Miletus (Acts 20, 15, 17, 2 Tim 4, 20), Gate Ichtar (Astarte) of Babylon, of which the biblical echo.

is a city with aerated many parks, planted trees are still young, with green spaces, tree-lined avenues, because of the Spree and the floodway, forests and lakes that surround it.

I had the impression of a life both active and relaxed. We are taking the advantage of living well. Restaurants are one third cheaper than here. In the district of Kreuzberg, where we were received, the ground floor fitted with gardens were often granted to " kindergartens; Turks were indeed present, there were some veiled women, but we did not encounter niqab. In various places, were the successors to the hippies who had established their headquarters.

Compared to the pomp of our Republic, installed in his palace, witnessing the insolence of nobility of the ancien regime, the German state is small. The residence of the President of the Republic, the castle of "Bellevue", differs French private little castle, current province, such as the one we saw last June, to La Bastide d'Armagnac, for example. Angela Merkel, Chancellor, simply lodge in town.

The memory of the Huguenots, who gave his rise in Berlin (at xviii century, Berlin was the third French) is maintained around the Französicherstrasse and Gendarmenmarkt (most beautiful place in the world to believe Goethe). Worship celebrated in the French Church (in German, at a time when we went there) followed the same pattern as ours. Although this was the second of the morning worship, the church (which must contain at least two hundred people) was nearly full (filled by distant descendants of Huguenots?). A viewing room of the church, where worship is also celebrated, with the name of Georges Casalis, formerly professor of our Protestant Institute of Theology. As chaplain of the French forces in Berlin, he scored his strong personality and hard years of Protestantism in Berlin of the immediate postwar period. This is the Huguenot refugees that Europe owes its largest University Hospital: Hospital "Charity." The restaurant located in the basement name: " Refugium ', a nod extra! "The Revocation of Nantes el'Édit is the greatest catastrophe that France has ever known" (Philippe Seguin).

French Protestants do they remember their history? When it happens to speak, if I do not meet chauvinism Huguenot lined fundamentalism that has very Christian thing, the more often it is a respectful silence. Protestants are not interested today. This is not to base our faith on our history, to remove a vanity, to what passed through ritualized celebrations and commemorations, but to discover that history and to have this memory in gratitude . A social group that forgets its history, or puts in parentheses, fishing heavily by ingratitude towards women and men who have allowed their faith exist today, the price of their comfort, their future and their children, often paying with their lives. The result of this ingratitude may mean that Protestantism today will have no future, even in the minds of Protestants tomorrow. A better understanding of our past French Protestant would help strengthen our presence in today's society.

What made us the most is how Berlin assumes its responsibility in the memory of the persecution Jews. The synagogue was completely rebuilt exactly, and on the doorstep of the houses where they lived, cobblestones covered with copper plates recall the names of Jewish families deported (sometimes more for the same building). The monument to the extermination of the Jews did not bear the name of "Denkmal" (Monument of Remembrance), but "Mahnmal (monument which should serve as a warning). In its architectural design which covers the area of a large square, is a successful example of "contemporary sculpture", but, more importantly, not a monument that can look, we contemplate so satisfied, we are led to enter in, he asks us, forcing us to walk, remember to try to understand.

Are we better? For this, we should at least that we spend in Paris a beautiful surface and suggestive architecture as for keep alive the consciousness of our fellow citizens from the point of the African slave trade including a number of good homes Protestant (between Bordeaux others) have benefited. What word do we have of Rome heard about persecutions of the Inquisition? For St. Barthelemy, Paris gets away with a brief mention on the base of the statue of Admiral Gaspard de Coligny. Our city continues to shine through Notre Dame des Victoires, a square, a street and even a synagogue to commemorate the Victory and even celebrate the victories of Louis XIII on Protestants (La Rochelle).

Berlin is now probably the only city in the world and make repentance of its past. Other German cities seem equally responsible: Munich, Nuremberg (or even Vienna, Austria). Are they too brief? At home, royal absolutism, the revolutionary Terror, the Napoleonic wars, the subject of celebrations that ignore any downside.

one thing I regret is that the monument on the deportation of the Jews is called "Holocaust Mahnmal " in the Hebrew Bible, The word translated as "holocaust" ( HrôLâH : in integer) is a complete sacrifice asked by the Lord . Jews prefer to speak of the Shoah (annihilation) and is better named (except when we use language-conformism by what? - Anglo-Saxon spelling of the Holocaust!).

Jacques Gruber

Other texts available via email: Evidence; elections or plebiscites; Where do we stand with the truth? ; Protestants, the souk, Jews and Christians, the divergence of monotheism (first and second parts) The Don and attention; Holy Spirit, who are you, what are you doing? ; Send Church (s) What is believed Jesus entering Jerusalem; Messages for highlights of the year; Am I a creationist? ; Confession of Faith, Evangelism, Forgiveness, The Shipyard, Grace; Easter ; A vision for the world; Resources; The roadmap of Jesus, Open Letter to my Catholic friends, the Merciful; Led by the Spirit; Contemporaries distant (Benedict XVI and I) For entry; The Calvin trickery, Rome and Canterbury; Woes; Woes (continued) Easter 2010; Remember and learn, Buddha or Jesus, Buddhism The narrow gate.

the same author: Hear the Word. The inner witness of the Holy Esprit , Paris, Édi­tions du Cerf, 2005,

« Vous serez mes témoins ». Pour un temps de confusion et de mutations , Paris, Éditions du Cerf, 2009.

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