ROMA-separate historical truth from the convictions that have always accompanied a religion is not easy. Especially if it survives for more than twenty centuries and is still the most widespread in the world. "Investigation on Christianity", the latest book by journalist and writer Corrado Augias, is an attempt to trace the birth and evolution of the religion of Jesus from available sources, to destroy, as stated by the author, the "fairy tales" rooted by year collective opinion. The result, a dialogue between the teacher and journalist and historian of the Christian religion Cacitti Remo, gives us an image of Christianity completely different from that released by the Church and supported uncritically by most of the media, from the beginning. For many scholars, in fact, it is not the religion of Jesus, but its real founder was Paul who had the merit of turning a stream of Judaism in a self-worship, which he then spread throughout the world. As originally could not speak of a single religion: there is, more "Christian", only one of which would triumph, first established by the work policy of the Emperor Constantine in 313 recognized that the freedom of worship, and then the Emperor Theodosius, who made the religion of State in 380. Figures like those of Paul and Constantine were, according Augias, decisive for the success of religion, in which political power played a decisive role: "In the fourth century - he said - there was a close link between religion and politics, as the Christianity was considered at that time a powerful attraction to reassemble the empire. " To be called into question not only the origins of the Christian faith, but also some of its aspects: "Survey on Christianity," he recalls, among other things, that almost certainly no universal mission Jesus entrusted to the apostles that Peter probably was not never in Rome, and that the Roman pantheon, made up of many deities each with its own task, was seized upon by the Church through the worship of saints. Or even that an institution such as clerical celibacy, as we read in the book, "is the result of a tradition without any doctrinal or biblical foundation." The conversation between the journalist who wants to "historical reconstruction" religion, as defined Augias during the meeting, and the scholar of Christianity also touches on points raised in the Church for centuries, the nature of original sin to the problem of eternity Christ until his resurrection. Jesus as born of a father can be held forever? The resurrection refers to a corpse and buried alive again, or we can only speak of an empty tomb, and then the presence of a purely mystical? Issues such as these help to strengthen the convictions of more suspicious and stimulate the interest of those who look to religion with "the tools of reason," but at the same time a Catholic, grew up with the teachings of the Catechism of the Church, are certainly more difficult to accept. For years, religion is the subject of battles, often harsh, contrasting skeptics and believers, reason and faith. If it is legitimate to try to explain it from a perspective "rational", so is the question to what extent it is essential to reconstruct every aspect, leaving no mystery and all'inspiegabilità that belong to nature. CLEAR PRIOR (LUMSANEWS)
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