Suffering in the Church
"The church suffers in this world, because it is not of this world," says the author of the book at one point in the following pages. Sever Negrescu, I was tempted to add, he is not from the world he describes, from time to time, as we know it: with bad-smelling politics, with the manipulative roar of television, with various means through which a reality is propagated falsified, with a press that always chooses evil, scandal, with an increasingly aggressive marketing and "suffocating utilities", with more and more damaged common sense and goodwill, with overgrown traditions, overwhelmed by new, imported fashions, which bring events of modernity : gay parades, cremations, a mother of six who dies as a result of a silicone implant operation, etc. A globalizing roll is spreading across countries and peoples, the first church for atheists has been inaugurated in London, but also in Bucharest they applaud at funerals and boo at weddings. Young people who used to walk sheep and...
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