Saramago

Dedicated to my friend Salvador Ferrando

The Osservatore Romano, with occasion 0f José Saramago's death, emphasizes the "anti-religious ideology" of "a man and an intellectual lacking any metaphysical ability, (and who lived) "grabbed all the way to his persistent faith in historical materialism, aka Marxism ".  In short, his writting, was marked by "the trivialization of the sacred" and "libertarian materialism" radicalized over the years.

I think the Vatican is making a compliment to the author. Just for having no religious ideology, Saramago was a respected intellectual. The burden of prejudice that leads to believe in a number of things that have no proof, to follow the dictates of an abstract and omiscient being, whose will and doctrine have been interpreted differently by the illuminated clerics, limits - if not nullifies - the ability of judgement of any so-called intellectual.

If we consider metaphysics a branch of philosophy concerned to explain the fundamental nature of self and the world, no doubt that Saramago was a man of great metaphysic ability. Saramago was a spiritual man, but not religious.

Having read Saramago's works, there is no wonder he won the Nobel prize for literature. I would be surprised, however, that it will ever be given to a Pope, although I consider religions a branch of fiction literature.

Someone who writes better than this blogger has said this