Science, belief and faith

the man apart. Well, what I say to you is that the sciences of nature also apply to the famous concept of supernatural. Of the same that we can no longer design the nature as something that can be put to share of man, we cannot conceive a supernatural, I mean a divinity somewhere in the sky, which could exist without us. If the divine is inaccessible to us, I do not see why it must care to us!

The religious problem, in the sense that it should be put today, turns considerably. This act of faith, the religious, cannot be considered as an age of the humanity, as the fact Augusto Comte (you know its famous law of three states: the theological age, the metaphysics age, and finally, the positive age –I mean the scientific.) It is to lay the religious phenomenon as a human transaction: the man is an animal which, because that he has the reason, has the problem of the divine (the question does not arise in rabbit.) And, speaking as a rational operation this make to the man responsible and to the nature and to the supernatural. You understand that the theologians would fall me angry! Because if the clinical anthropology of Jean Gagnepain allows us to start to prepare a study as scientifically as possible of the act of faith (which does not prove its validity, nor his disability) it is made of theology, and even the philosophy, at least in the philosophy so-called classical, which is, in fact, that a secular theology. Remains that, as well as we regard to nature, since the beginning of the profound change in contemporary thinking, the man can no longer be in brackets, he can no longer be considered as what it is called the “transcending,” say the “spiritual,” “as another dimension of the man” since it is with us that this transcending

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