Pilar Rahola
25/02/2018
Gathered under the cover of the ypo (Young President’s Organization), which brings together thousands of Chief Executive officers around the world, And on the stage of the Royal Club of Tennis Barcelona, A few we try the impossible. On the table, Religions, God, The clash between faith and reason… And in the possession of the microphone, happily moderate by Helena Garcia Melero, A varied group that went from representatives of Christianity (Roser Farrús), El Islam (Zouhair El Hairan), buddhism (Thubten Wangchen) and Judaism (Marcel Odina), Up to two "temporary" agnostics, According to the expression of the sociologist Maite Soto-Sanfiel, what, next to me, The box of speakers culminated. From here, A conversation that was wanted free and was always respectful.
God and utility or, As someone from the public asked, ¿why religions? The truth is that it is strange to respond from the non -believer view that, inevitably, me define. And I put the adverb because I recognize that it would be comfortable to avoid it, convinced that belief in God softens fears. But since this of faith is not born of divine inspiration, but of human will, At the moment I am out of the plane. Despite this, In this world so bewildered, in permanent shipwreck of values and with severe conflicts that bleed to humanity, The existence of believers seems to me an ethical need, in fact, a social urgency. Of course, When I talk about believers, I mean people who have made a deep inner trip, They have acquired a spiritual significance, And from all this they extract a greater humanity. People who have understood faith as a personal improvement and a delivery to others. Another thing would be fans who use God for evil, Types whose transcendence ends where its intolerance begins. But beyond these totalitarian ideologies or the political instrumentalisms of religions, The religious fact itself is a flow of moral values that urgent, especially, In these convulsive times.
It is true that, As Western citizens, We tend to nourish ourselves from the Enlightenment and Rationalism, And with that look we try to understand the world. But now that we already know that the Enlightenment has failed in its attempt that reason explained it all, Perhaps we should leave a hole to the luminosity that gives faith to many people. It is not something banal, In Simple, No superficial, in We can afford the luxury of not taking it into account. Faith, understood as an inner force that encourages the human being to have a deeper vital tour, It is the other piece that we needed, The complement to reason, and not your antithesis. That is the historical error of an arrogant illustration that believed that reason was superior to faith. ¿And if both were at level and only needed to complement each other? The answer to that question changes the whole perspective.
