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S And the Soviet-known film producer and double Oscar winner Branko Lustig is felt and heard what it means to be an atheist in Croatia. When the end of September came in Knin Knin cinema to show the kids movie "Last Flight of Peter Ginza" of a talented 16-year-old boy who ended up in Auschwitz, he found himself in an empty cinema because parents did not let children play on film.
Knin Mayor Joseph Rimac said in a statement to then explain this: "Parents are banned and I can not allow that in my town someone speaks against God, that there is no God."
The Mayor, however, later corrected - a few days ago invited fashion quarterly Lustig to jointly organize a new screening of the film, it is sure to be a projection of the times and fail to respect the deep Lustig, his personal sacrifice and wish to refer to crimes that may never be repeated . Convert not understandable
A few days ago, in a traditional church ceremony, buried Boris Sprem, genial and popular, widely accepted President of the Croatian Parliament, who had never practiced the faith. Sprem in the days of serious illness chose to be escorted by the church ceremony. This is an important and deeply personal decision for which, however no one should or should not have any - all that Boris Sprem leaves behind - pridodavati neither positive nor a negative sign. Convert not a human understandable, but of course there can be no normal occasion to celebrate the victory of light over darkness, of faith, of Christianity fashion quarterly and Catholicism against atheism or agnosticism. fashion quarterly However, just as some think publicists call Catholic provenance that these days largely insane, not only distasteful, interepretacijama drowning in our email boxes. Much more polite about everything in Glas Council this week, writes John Miklenic, but with hardly disguised jubilation.
Don Ivan Grubisic estimated that the growing interest in spirituality without religion. The value system is unhinged and it can not replace a religious system, as long as it is traditional. For offering the ritual, fashion quarterly tradition, authority, and today is an important authority of the truth, which in turn religious communities do not accept. So Grubisic believes that the need for a new paradigm fashion quarterly that is based on other grounds and it promotes spirituality rather than religiosity.
Today we can no longer talk about harassment atheists and agnostics against Catholics, as it could be argued for almost the entire period of the nineties. Then there are neither unbelieving associations as Protagoras (for promotion ireligioznog worldview and ireligioznosti), David or I'm a believer. But Croatia's then had several independent media who are vehemently unmasked then ruling nationalist ideology in which the promotion of (poor, distorted) Catholicism was self-evident starting point.
Today our water agnostic and atheist - Ivo Josipovic, Zoran Milanovic, get the vast majority of votes in the elections, formally and by the census, not only in the largely Catholic country but almost unified fashion quarterly Catholic citizenship. 11 years ago, in 2001., As Catholics have decided to even 87.8 percent of the population. About last year's list is no more results on religion citizens. But it is certain that there is a considerable discrepancy fashion quarterly between the formal, fashion quarterly safe and opting for the traditional with the religious heritage of faith and practice. The authority of truth
The current Member of Parliament and a retired priest, Father Ivan Grubisic, for example, estimates that on average only about 15 percent of Croatian citizens really religious and live with faith. The Catholic Church waving figures and its representatives constantly point out that Croatia is a Catholic country, but when they advocate abortion ban or a ban on medical fertilization, but also by not going out and having sex before marriage, then such attitudes are not understood and the approval of the majority fashion quarterly of citizens.
Some high priests of the Catholic Church to this day do not recognize that a criminal fascist Ustasha ideology and practice of the Hitler regime and the 1941st to 1945th Thus Dr. Stephen Reason, fashion quarterly Chief Archdiocesan Archives of the Croatian National Institute of Croatian Journal in an interview said that the Greater Jasenovac myth and not camp in which they murdered Serbs, Jews, Roma and Croats leftists. Indeed, today very few high priests of the Catholic Church - as for example Adalbert Rebic - who acknowledge that they are carried out by Ustasha fashion quarterly genocide.
Although the overall education of history influenced by Tudjman's policy of allegedly universal fashion quarterly reconciliation Croatians went to the audit endehaovskog part of Croatian history, fashion quarterly the vast majority of Croats today sentenced to a period of state crimes.
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