"Here we see an attempt to construct a public theology—or rather, if we may borrow a stylistic feature from a great memory, a European public theology. If the age of theology appears to be over, or if only its shadow remains, it is because the dull intellects that have dealt with it (with a few exceptions) carry within them the worm that has gnawed away at the discipline. As if it had to follow the fate of the religion to which it was subjugated. The very fall of religion, now only an object of faith and hope – squalid supports of our uncertain destiny – was to favor it and clear the field of any misunderstanding. That God exists is just a sinister little fact. Nothing more. (Given the way things are going, it was to be expected)."
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Manlio Sgalambro
Manlio Sgalambro (9 December 1924 – 6 March 2014) was an Italian philosopher, writer, and poet.
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