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Why Croatian politicians vaticanize? By its Constitution, Croatia is a secular state. By their election-time declarations, most Croatian politicians are liberals. In reality, however, Croatian societal life is heavily influenced by the vaticanism: Croatian Catholic church cannot be separated from its role as an entire political/ governmental system and leading Croatian politicians are Pope-hand-kissers if not lower-back-sniffers. Why is it so? Why is it so in spite of the fact that Croatian Catholic church in showing more interest in tax-payers money than in churchgoers? From the Vatican point of view, the independent state of Croatia was an easy and welcome prey. Times of glory, when Catholic church ruled many of the Western states in maleficent partnership with royal families and dictators, are long gone. What is left, are the states which from various historical and social circumstances still desire Pope on their banners. And Croatia is a good example, par excellence: Croatian Catholic church was (and still is) the best discriminator, as opposed to Serbian Orthodox church, in the Serbo-Croatian brotherly genocides. Much better than language, much better than culture. Then, what’s wrong with that? The main problem is God. Look, God is an anti-democratic device, Catholic church is an anti-democratic institution. Says Stanley Fish (NY Times, Nov. 1, 2010): "The laws framed by the liberal state are neutral between competing visions of the good and the good life; the state intervenes aggressively only when the adherents of one vision claim the right to act in ways that impinge upon the rights of others to make their own choices. The key distinction underlying classical liberalism is the distinction between the private and the public. This distinction allows the sphere of political deliberation to be insulated from the intractable opposi- tions that immediately surface when religious viewpoints are put on the table. Liberalism tells us that religious viewpoints should be confined to the home, the heart, the |
place of worship and the personal relationship between oneself and one’s God. You are free to believe that salvation comes only through faith in Jesus Christ and to order your behavior accord- ingly. You are not free to coerce others, either by physical force or the force of law, to share your faith and behave as you do." |
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