Pope Benedict released a new papal encyclical on friday November 30. One of the statements seems to adress the present revival of atheistic manifestations. It reads: “Let us put it very simply: man needs God, otherwise he remains without hope.”
This is a sad thing, for it follows from this that according to pope Benedict man can not find hope in man himself. Only through the christian god man can have moral guidance, only through this god we can come to goodness. The world is a lost place he seems to say. Why bother about your brother when there is no hope there?
Shouldn’t someone point out the bankruptcy of this argument.
