An interreligious date of high level introduces the 36th Meeting of Rimini<\/p>\n
Rimini, 20th August 2015 \u2013 3 p.m., the 36th edition of the Meeting of Rimini starts. Theme: \u201cReligions are part of the solution, not the problem\u201d. They attend Ha\u00efm Korsia, Chief Rabbi of France, Azzedine Gaci, dean of the Othmane Mosque of Villeurbanne in France and cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, president of the Pontifical Council for the interreligious dialogue. It introduces Emilia Guarneri, president of the Foundation Meeting for the friendship amongst the peoples. It is Guarnieri herself, on the opening, who underlines how religions \u201care a bastion against the nihilism of our contemporary society and represent a benefit for us all\u201d.
\nKorsia launches the deliberation about the dialogue with the other monotheist religions by stating that Hebraism doesn\u2019t hold the truth: \u201cEach religion has its truth\u201d. The Chief Rabbi narrates of the Exode in the Bible, when Jewish people leave Egypt. Moses succeeds to manage the people by talking to everyone. He has to be everyone\u2019s leader, and judge what the important issues are. Korsia affirms that God prefers united men, even if against Him (like on the episode of the Tower of Babel), than divided ones like on the tale of the Deluge. \u201cUniformity is dangerous for men, while unity is dialogue, progression of dialogue which makes them progress\u201d. \u201cThe perfection of men is their ability to perfect themselves\u201d, add the Chief Rabbi \u2013 so it corresponds with others\u2019 need, because my self is held by others. \u201cThe self is what it\u2019s missing\u201d: for this reason it is essential to give to others and love them in order to discover them and accept them in their diversity.
\nBy stating their joy of being at the Meeting, Gaci wanted to display that it is possible to live together between different peoples, culture and \u2013 most of all \u2013 religions. \u201cWe live in an age of deep misunderstandings. A globalization of religions is taking place and we have to ask ourselves about it\u201d \u2013 that is his preamble. \u201cWill the great monotheist religions\u201d he continued \u201cmanage to survive in Europe? Will they manage to contrive an enduring peace, or will they fuel terrorism? Are they ultimately the solution, or the problem?\u201d
\nThere are many essential prerequisites, adds the lecturer, to which we have to face if we want to answer to these questions: we want to consider our personal, individual needs; to the other side, we have to consider civil and institutional requirements as well. To satisfy the formers, we should remind three conditions. The first is \u201cknow the others\u201d: others are always other than me, so he brings diversity. This awareness is the first pass to cohabitation, to enrichment through the range of differences. There is no but one humanity declined in thousands of possibilities. The essential is to build bridges and establish friendships. The second condition is that a true believer is inhabited by a presence, so he\u2019s never alone. \u201cThus\u201d Gaci observes, \u201cthe presence of the others will always be God\u2019s presence by way of the others\u201d. A last, essential condition is the attention to respect \u2013 which is not equivalent to tolerance. \u201cEach time we met\u201d sais by referring to Cardinal Tauran (but also to the Chief Rabbi nonetheless), \u201cI found myself enriched\u201d. Tolerance beckons an idea of sufferance face to others. Otherwise, \u201cI am here and say to you: it is God who wants this difference. We live together, we have become the same destiny\u201d.
\nTo all this we have to add another condition: a positive look to others is needed, it is needed also a mind to others for a better comprehension of ourselves. It is not about losing our ways in others\u2019 \u2013 it\u2019s the building of ourselves, together with the others: \u201cWe\u2019re not alike, but I\u2019m prone to listen to you and know your certainties so I could build myself better\u201d.
\nBy ending his speech, Gaci underlined how these personal needs are vital also for the institutional needs (to which, for lack of time, he has only mentioned) and the collective ones, but the idea of diversity is necessary more than ever, because a misunderstanding could bring to reject others. One cannot take the liberty to think about oneself without the others any more.
\nCardinal Tauran has eventually stressed that there is no such thing as religious conflicts; religions are not violent, their disciples are. \u201cReligions are often looked at as a danger: fundamentalism, zealotry, sectarian drifts, sectarian drifts, are often grouped with religion\u201d, he affirmed. In particular, this happens on account to terrorist acts, inspired by religious reason, perpetrated by a minority of misdirected initiated to a religion: Islam. \u201cObviously\u201d he clarified, \u201cthis is not about the real Islam exercised by the majority of that religion\u2019s followers\u201d.
\nActually \u2013 adds Tauran \u2013 it is necessary to discern what belongs to politics from what belongs to religion. All religions agree in the defense of some virtues: life, dignity of human individuals, family, fraternity, mutual help. Therefore, the followers of all religions \u201cexist, belong to this world, are sympathetic with current history and citizens with full rights \u2013 non citizens or believers, but citizens and believers. They offer to everyone that additional of spirit that every society needs\u201d. That is why \u201cone cannot live and meditate on our society\u2019s future without considering the religious dimension of human nature\u201d. \u201cWe are part of this world, the world God loves\u201d is the conclusion. \u201cWe must take the chance to meet it\u201d.
\n(D.P., A.Cap.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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