Variations of Hell (in progress)

“Überhaupt die Religion - ich denke, wir müssen aufpassen, dass die "dark ages" nicht zurückkehren. Andererseits sind die "westlichen Gesellschaften" auch nur Variationen der Hölle"- Sandra Lehmann, 2009

- The end of Religion is not the end of the Religious; it will linger about for a long time under the rubric of “religious”, wearing masks falser than those it wore before. Back in time, it at least made use of authority or conviction in order to carry out the divine plan. The new “religious” discovered by philosophers like Habermas, misusing the tortured theology of Adorno and Benjamin, is nothing but the last desperate moan of a comatose metaphysics –here I am not speaking of self-secure Thomistic and Aristotelian metaphysics that still hold their world together for themselves, even if at the price of an alienated existence, rather what I am referring to is the so-called philosophies of “(political) freedom” engaged in “practical concerns” of everyday life, that in their self-avowed rejection of spirituality have mistaken Plato’s world of forms with the world from above. In this confusion it is not only that it has not been possible to give a framework to this such eminently practical philosophy but also that its lack of metaphysics under all its names, reputable or not, has evidently torn into pieces its possibility to reach any philosophical climax and therefore any claim for truth, they have instead devoted themselves to criticize the rationality behind the processes of public and justice administration and governability; this comatose religion does not even have a theology or a scripture or even a God, it is sated with a mourner that claims that those theologies, scriptures or gods have never been such, and therefore denies the claim to all possible past, and it is not like there is a future that looms with the splendor of a renaissance.
- Everyday Life as an unchallenged structural concept is not the equivalent of everyday wisdom but neither is it a philosophy of life –Lebensphilosophie and the philosophical biologies could not be any further removed from the concerns of everyday life. In its long career as a hidden pathway from St. Augustine to Heidegger, Everyday Life is but a concern with personal salvation. Salvation and religion are not the same, because it would be an oxymoron to say one is to keep religion in its actual form as a liturgical or social practice once he has reached into the world or state where he is meant to be saved… Religion is ought to belong to the morphology of the world in its actual form –as a lower form if we were to adopt Platonic philosophy… Isn’t what we learn from Jesus that salvation comes from faith and not from religion? Religion and Culture have their origin in Roman life; however in the age of alienation they have become a bridge between people, even a channel of inter-subjectivity if that’s how we want to call them.