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Today’s society in the innocence of madness? Jesuit father Eberhard von Gemmingen, the Catholic Church asks itself, where a repressed sense of guilt.

Meaning in life is only, who is seeking the error of his ways, repent, and before the Next excuse.

Love your neighbor as yourself. This is what Jesus Christ says. This gospel of Jesus Christ has shaped Europe more than other continents, or to shape attempts. A majority of Europeans are baptized and call themselves Christians. The vast majority of them do not know – even if you adhere strictly to it – that Jesus urges: love your enemies, your enemy. And Go to the beggar, do not carelessly pass by, but help him.

Now I mean, today is a remarkable return to turning. Maybe I’m wrong, but I would like to put here for discussion: Since the enlightenment, it is claimed that the Church had made to the people always have a bad Conscience, and guilt is talking, to call them to conversion, to penance and repentance. From the glad message of the Church have made a Drohbotschaft. So the Church had secured its Power.

Drohbotschaft or innocence obsession?

The well-known time-editor Jan Roß asked five years ago in his book “Why God” is used, whether the debt obsession is still the big Problem. And he notes: today, the tendency to presumption of innocence insist, rather, to the innocence of obsession. Could anyone make a bad Conscience, especially not artificial. Guilt is almost always exaggerated or unnecessary. Most of the false scruples would say. The advice literature is a pound people, you should be at ease with themselves and their moral health. You are not a Raven’s parents, ungrateful children, or unloving spouses. Above all, they have a right to think only once. You are not likely to go out of sheer altruism, in front of the dogs. Literally steed writes: “Not in a morbid bad Conscience, suffers the present, but to a pathological good: incurable mental health.”1

What should we conclude from these observations? Anyone who denies guilt and sin, and denies his own freedom, his responsibility, and he denies it to be the real person. To the people we are, if we are able and willing to provide us with a self-critical and confess our guilt.

Who shall be forfeited to the innocence and delusion, falls into boredom and futility. Meaning in life is only, who is seeking the error of his ways, repent, and before the Next excuse. The two men in the temple, of which Jesus in the gospel of Luke (Lk 18,9-14), are different: The commitment to the back of the temple of his failure, and with God, in accordance to home. The boasts before God of his actions, betrays his humanity, because he knows his failure and acknowledges.

Sense only, who is aware of his shortcomings

Jan Roß is doing his Thesis clearly in the fact that Dostoevsky’s novel “crime and punishment” is called in a new edition of “crime and punishment”. Of crime and punishment, the modern man should hear nothing more. Steed writes: “The Tradition of guilt and sin and a bad Conscience is not simply a burden, which should yield better, to then be finally happy. The blame culture is an achievement, a rich heavy heritage of the Occident, is problematic and valuable at the same time, an extension of the human image is to be made only at the price of moral and spiritual loss to reverse.“2

We will try to be there, where us public opinion is telling: we made false accusations, basically we were all in order. We try to let the words of Christ again and again on the tongue: “repent and believe the gospel” (Mk 1,15). What thought public opinion at the time of Jesus, was probably as erroneous as what you eintrichtert us today.

1 Jan Roß, “the defense of The people – is Why God used”, Berlin 2012, p. 225.
2 ibid., P. 253

 

Father Eberhard von Gemmingen SJ, born in 1936 in Bad Rappenau. After he joined in 1957 in the Jesuit order, he studied in 1959, philosophy in Pullach near Munich, and theology in Innsbruck and Tübingen. In 1968 consecration of his priests. Father Eberhard von Gemmingen SJ was a member of the Ecumenical lay movement, action 365, the Bishop’s representative at the ZDF and head of the German editors of Radio Vatican. Since 2010, he is the Fundraiser of the German Jesuits.