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THE INQUISITION

Open Letter to José Antonio Pagola

"The

Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

, originally called the Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition, has opened a case against the book '

Jesus. historical approach ', the Basque theologian Jose Antonio Pagola to establish if it complies with the doctrine of the Church, despite that the revised edition of the work, the ninth, leading the ' nulla osta "(no objection) and the Imprimatur of exobispo of San Sebastian, Juan María Uriarte ( Courier, 30/1/1911).

"The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith opened a case to José Antonio Pagola for his book on Jesus" (Religion Digital

, 01/30/1911).

Dear José Antonio:

First of all, I express my closeness, understanding and loving support, with the desire to help you sustain the confidence that, as you well know, was one of the characteristics of Jesus.

Supported in the same trust fund, I can not help feeling, however, now that I write, grief and sadness, sorrow for all that this situation could affect you painfully, sadly, because they do not understand these attitudes of suspicion, trial and condemnation of those who, although they claim to authority, followers of Jesus.

When it seemed that, finally, the meaning imposed elementary common-sanity, comes the news that the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has decided to launch a process to your book. Poor

religion that needs an inquisitorial system to protect themselves! You can not surely be the religion of Jesus, but just the opposite, that of his executioners. In fact, he was the first victim of a similar institution.

1.

The gospel exposes the inquisitors

There is a text, as enlightening as forgotten, in the Gospel of Mark, in which this is evident. It reads:

"

entered [Jesus ] back into the synagogue and there was a man whose hand was withered. We were watching to see if it healed on the Sabbath, and thus have a reason to accuse him. Jesus said to the man with the withered hand: "Come here in the middle.

And they asked:

- What is allowed on the Sabbath: to do good or evil, to save life or to kill?

They remained silent. Looking at them with anger and grieved at their hardness of heart, said to the man

-Extends his hand.

He extended and his hand was restored.

As they left, the Pharisees conspired with the Herodians to plan how to kill it

"(Gospel of Mark from 3.1 to 6).

Espionage charges, twisted silence, conspiracy and death plans: What religion is that which promotes such attitudes, compared to an innocent man, which only recognize the importance of the human being above the law Saturday? However, for the religious authority that was "shocking."

know better than me that religious authority condemned Jesus, because they could not stand his attitude and his liberating message free issues "critical" to religion as the Sabbath law, traditions , ... standards of purity, could not tolerate his criticism of religious authority and the Jews "pious" it was shocking their solidarity with the outcasts and "sinners" and was radically challenged when Jesus uttered his denunciation of the temple ...

Any reader of the gospel, not about him in a routine, he is forced to wonder: What

could be, so much animosity and hostility towards Jesus by the religious authority? I have to me that the response includes two levels: the more apparent, the authority sought to defend "orthodoxy" and protect the received tradition, in the less visible, but perhaps more decisive, what appeared to actually move the authority was not simply the fear of being questioned . That is not to say an "evil" special priests, scribes and senators. Probably, they themselves were unaware of their ulterior motives and might even believe they were acting pursuant to the will of God. So, they came to cause the execution of Jesus, thinking that would give glory to God. But the reality was it was: if everything I (or ego) needs to be right and has no right to feel challenged, self

clothed with power, used to direct and control the consciousnesses to see himself as the "conscience" of individuals and of society does not tolerate any questioning of his doctrine. And if I, as well as being clothed with power, whether religious, you'll easily find a cloak of "divine justification" for all its actions.

2.

The Ego and his stratagems: the quest for power, fear of insecurity, the mechanism of justification and condemnation of dissent.

If we come to today, dear José Antonio, it seems that things have not changed much. Still met the laws of sociology and psychology ... and the selves (or egos) are running virtually the same as two thousand years ago.

religious authority also today said action to maintain and ensure orthodoxy received tradition ("to protect the faith of simple people.") And today it is possible to act in good faith, believing the will of God. But today also calls for a role of "lead consciousness," which prevents him from accepting free discussion and dissent.

In short, today as then, what is at stake is the power-in the broad sense of the word and its corresponding fear of losing, what I read as vital insecurity, "but all that is justify saying that it wants to prevent "scandal."

Did Jesus with their words and behaviors, not "shocked" to "simple people" of Galilee? Undoubtedly, to the extent that it brought him death, "but what is considered" scandal "in the eyes of religious authority, was actually released and life. Your book has been said that could hurt, but what people says is that it helps to believe and live.

sincerely suspect that what bothers the censors is that it can not hurt, but their interpretation is questioned. And that always leads to insecurity. Who has ideas on security can not tolerate anyone criticize them, not even the rewording of different.

Therefore, José Antonio, I get the impression that you repeat again, as with many others, what they did with the Master of Nazareth in that synagogue of Capernaum: spying, stalking, condemn ... with the only difference that now they do those who claim to follow Jesus.

But the reason is the same: the "doctrine" of the censors and inquisitors is questioned.

3.

When a language other sentence

have recourse to a simple picture. All humans, when we talk, we do a language necessarily in language. And nobody, except some fanatic, it occurs that a language is "superior" or "better" than another, they are simply different.

Similarly, whenever we think we do it necessarily in a "cultural language" that is, within a framework or through a filter: it is what is called a paradigm

.

And we can not understand and speak a language that is unknown to us, nor understand those who think within a paradigm that is unknown.

The reason lie

conviction lies precisely in this: he who speaks a language spoken condemnation different one, simply because I do not know. Moreover, because their language has found the truth, it makes disqualify any other language, not just as "different" but as "false." is the height of human arrogance, and rises to the inability to take away beliefs. In the background lies a vast uncertainty: this is precisely what leads to confusion, severe and dangerous, which makes taking their own "beliefs" (language) as being "the truth" (content).

This does not mean in any way, falling into relativism (Which, besides being intellectually untenable, leads to nihilism and suicide group). But the rejection of it can not be an excuse to assert dogmatic absolutism -as he usually does some religious authority-who maintains the pretense, as arrogant as wrong, to possess the truth.

Between the two, as unsustainable as dangerous in its consequences, is situated the "golden mean" which states that

human knowledge is always relative because, being located, has to necessarily a time and space. How well do we remember the verse of Machado!: "Do you really ? No, really. And come with me to seek; yours, keep her. "

Because ultimately, this is the pretentious falling deception in religious authority, over and over again:

taken as "truth" which is nothing but "their interpretation" . What this reveals is only one thing: who does it is in a mythic level of consciousness (which confused his "vision" with "truth" today we are forgetting something that is elemental: that all knowledge is already interpretation).

4.

When the Gospel is read in light of the Catechism

What I see in your book, appreciated and loved José Antonio, is just fidelity to the Gospel

, and wonder what makes other people smarter than me can see the exact opposite.

To that question, I have only one answer:

probably in all good faith, what happens is they read the gospel from the posterior catechism .

This catechism "so ingrained in the collective imagination Catholic and often too distant to the gospel-conditioning filter does reading. When there has been no serious study that can take away the "teachings" received, those are erected in the supreme and final judge of any theological approach.

That catechism-dominant until the middle of last century, theology was taught in seminaries at that time, which appear to rest your detractors, was formulated in a pre-modern paradigm and even on a mythic level of consciousness: we understand and say what he said and how he did! It was his "language" ...

The injustice is that they confused it was just a "language" with the ultimate truth. And so, when someone, out of loyalty, is led to "translate" the content to a new language, is quickly convicted and disqualified. And it warns of the inconsistency and injustice of condemning a "language" from another ...

But not only that: when reading the gospel from the catechism, or, which is, to read Jesus from religion, it loses its novelty, freshness and vitality.

The originality of Jesus tremendous paradox is watered by religious doctrine which he denounced . Can we ever stop using religion to tame the gospel? Will we have the courage to accept his new and consistent with it, even at the risk of falling our schemes "religious" our desire for security and the pursuit of power?

5.

Inquisitors "in Jesus' name?

I can understand the "laws" that operate in the mythic level of consciousness and psychological conditioning and deceit arising from identification with the self (or ego) of which we have been (or we are). However, I see that

produces sadness among those who call themselves followers of Jesus use practices characteristic of those who persecuted him and ended up running it .

How can you, on behalf of Jesus, the great critic of religion and in particular, religious authority, "assume attitudes of trial and conviction?

Can anyone imagine the Master of Nazareth condemning people for their ideas? In the Gospel, only one thing Jesus condemned: the hypocrisy of authority, particularly when used to impose on people.

No, Jesus was not divine, and came to make "believers." Wanted, nothing more and nothing less, that make us a little more "human"

sought help us "see" . But this is precisely what an authoritarian mindset can not allow: to her, everything has to remain "as it always has been."

The conclusion arrived at by any reader "neutral" of the gospel seems clear: Jesus would return

today also to be condemned by religious authority (although it is called "Christian"). The practice of the Nazarene, so forgotten in circles "religious" - proclaims a radically subversive: in a conflict between convicted and sentenced, Jesus is always find the latter part of . This leads me to believe that an "inquisitorial" can be very "religious" even very "Catholic" non-Christian but .

conclusion ... maintain confidence and avoid the pitfalls of self

Dear Jose Antonio: I know you're a good man and faithful coherent, integrated and delivered, like Jesus.

Let me end with a call to maintain confidence and an invitation, which I do myself, while the desire for you.

Be confident ... and lean on it. Your ego may suffer with this situation, the more absurd and hurtful because it comes from those who call themselves followers of Jesus, but

who you are not affected by anything from her . What we really are is safe from swing. So, breathe deeply, look at the present moment ... and taking away: both the "noise" that can llegarte outside in the form of condemnation, as the self that easily leads us into the confusion and suffering.

And the invitation:

every crisis is opportunity growth. If we live well, the "core" of all pain is strength and life. So I think that we invited to transcend the self, his "games" and its pitfalls . We are infinitely more than he does, ours is a "shared identity", in which we find Jesus himself, who are non-separated. Because, beyond the apparent (false) separation sets the mind, you and I, you and those who harass and condemn you, Jesus, and we, we and all beings are ... No-two.

In this "shared drive" or Non-duality no separation, no distance, gets a hug decided

agra and affectionate,

Enrique Martinez Lozano