ROME. Pope Francis warned Wednesday of the dangers of a “tired society” that has lost interest in truth and justice and has instead turned to superstition.
The Pope warned his weekly general audience that he faces a deadly temptation that leads to “the omnipotence of knowledge – the “omniscient absurdity” – and the powerlessness of the will,” leading to “surrender to world knowledge”. ” without any desire for justice and subsequent action.
“The emptiness and powerlessness of the meaning of this knowledge,” he continued, “rejects any ethical responsibility and any relation to true virtue.”
“It not only takes away the power to strive for good: it opens the door to the aggression of evil forces through counter-reaction,” he said. “These are the insane powers of the mind made mocked by extreme ideology.”
Indeed, in all our progress, in all our progress, we have truly become a “tired society”. “Think about it: we are a tiring society.”
“Of course science is advancing, which is a good thing,” he said. “But the wisdom of life is a little different and seems to be stuck.”
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The Pope also argued that the pursuit of scientific knowledge alone, without the search for an equivalent meaning and contemplation on deeper truths, left a void that could easily be filled with superstition.
“It’s no coincidence that our age is the age of fake news, mass superstition, and fake scientific facts,” he said. “Strange: A lot of witchcraft is spreading in this knowledge culture, knowledge of everything, even the truth of knowledge, but cultural sorcery.”
Sorcery “takes you to a superstitious life,” he says, “on the one hand, to rationally advance to the roots in the knowledge of things; On the other hand, a needy soul strays into superstition and immerses itself in witchcraft.
Francis urged resisting “the temptation to know the world in a dull and ignorant way in life”.
“We shouldn’t indulge in a bit of intangible, unrealistic, rootless idealism – let’s face it – in the magic of life,” he said.
Source: Breitbart
