Läs i veckans nr av America artikeln ”His Universe Was Infinite” om Giordano Bruno med anledning av en ny biografi skriven av prof Ingrid D Rowland ”Giordano Bruno Philosopher/Heretic”
”While Bruno’s forays into astronomy were radical enough to raise ecclesiastical hackles, he was ultimately condemned for refusing to recant his doctrinal errors and accept the authority of the cardinal-investigators, among whom was Robert Bellarmine, the first Jesuit appointed to the Roman Inquisition. On a cold Ash Wednesday, after seven years languishing in Venetian and Roman prisons, Giordano Bruno was led naked to the pyre awaiting him. If, as Rowland asserts, he came into this world to light a fire, this rogue Renaissance character did just that, and in the end it consumed him. Likewise, she would contend that the “generation he foresaw, here where the pyre burned” has yet to appear. While Galileo has been rehabilitated by the church that silenced him, Bruno still broods, manacled and unpardoned, over the field of flowers where his last journey ended. ”
http://www.americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=11344&comments=1#readcomments
När det gäller Galilei har kyrkan bett om förlåtelse men inte när det gäller Giordano Bruno, som brändes på bål på Campo de Fiori i Rom 17 febr 1600.
Det vore hög tid att katolska kyrkan, som stolt förkunnar hur hon värnar om livet i alla sammanhang, bad om förlåtelse för att hon lät den ”rätta tron” gå före vördnaden för livet i fallet Giordano Bruno.
// Irène
2 svar till ”Tikkun – att reparera och laga världen med rabbinen Michael Lerner”
Vilken skillnad att lyssna på denna rabbin efter alla millitanta talesmän för den israeliska regeringen som inte begriper att säkerhet aldrig kan upprätthållas med bomber eller HOT om bomber.
Svaga röster som Michael Lerner måste dock få hjälp att lyftas fram genom den högljudda kören av millitanta förespråkare.
Ju mer förtryck ju större osäkerhet är ju en ”naturlag”.
Och så förstockat av israeliska regeringen och alla dess supportrar i framförallt USA som tror att de kan trotsa denna naturlag.
// Irène
Läs hur rabbi Michael Lerner talar om Gud
”When confronted by God and asked, ”Where is Abel your brother?” Cain responds with what becomes the classic line of distorted consciousness–as much the line of those who turn their backs on the homeless and the starving of the world today as it was of those who have in every age allowed themselves not to see the pain of others– ”Am I my brother’s keeper?”
”Torah’s unmistakable implication is that the moment one recognizes one’s ”other,” one must simultaneously recognize the obligation toward caring and mutual concern. ”
”This God is YHVH–the Force of transformation and healing. God is The Force that makes possible the movement of reality from that which IS to that which OUGHT TO BE.”
”We may have the germs of what might be called a Biblical theory about the origins of violence. Cruelty is made possible when human beings do not recognize in each other the image of God that is the essence of their being–and hence turn away from others; do not hear their pain.”
”And this is the key to racism of all sorts–the need to deny the others’ right to be taken care of by finding some aspect of that other which makes the other NOT REALLY a human being like ourselves.”
http://www.tikkun.org/rabbi_lerner/god
// Irène