Monday, 11 June 2018

DEVIL’S ADVOCATE - "promotor fidei"

I always wondered why Jews , Gypsies , African Americans were despised
because of their race. Did they really have some DNA deficiencies or their customs and traditions put them apart from the society they live. Why Darwinian evolution did not work out with them and why a harmony couldn’t be established between two societies.

It is not really very easy to understand the humiliation of the Jews during the whole history. Starting from Egypt and Babylonia , than  after in Spain and Portugal during the inquisition period and expulsion from their land during middle age and Polish and Russian pogroms, German genocide during the past centuries are unforgettable stains in human history.

Suffrage activist Alice Stone have written in his memoirs that in their Catholic education they learned that “Jews and Dogs do not go to Heaven”. She was confused about this .

Rationally thinking , religions must not interfere with human races but this had not happened all the time. Especially Christianity with its Crusaders, Islam with its Jihadists do not really  have a good reputation in the  history. Although Jesus and his disciples were Jews , moreover that they believe to the Old Testament also , in the Christian world Jews were treated as lower class community. Not all the rights were given, nor allowed to work as the wish and move to wherever they want.

Recent terrorist activities in the world made Islamophobia spreading in whole world and putting Islamic minorities’ existence at jeopardy in Christian predominant countries…

“PROMOTOR FIDEI” was a formal post to investigate and to draw up a list of arguments against a nominee before being blessed by the Church. Also known as “Advocatus Diaboli” from where we use the idiom devil’s advocate to characterize a person who is against the general opinion all the time and who is always trying to find out the negative sides of the public orientation.

Today is the right time that a “promotor fidei” appear again and declare the faulty sides of today's silent society.

Avram Aji
11.06.2018

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