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    The Suggestions of the Divine: Logic Revision of God’S and Myths’ Transcendence Hypothesis
    The Suggestions of the Divine: Logic Revision of God’S and Myths’ Transcendence Hypothesis
    The Suggestions of the Divine: Logic Revision of God’S and Myths’ Transcendence Hypothesis
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    The Suggestions of the Divine: Logic Revision of God’S and Myths’ Transcendence Hypothesis

    By Giuseppe Tassani

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    Giuseppe Tassani strongly believes that every person has a primary duty of reflecting on life, death, and afterlife. Raised Catholic, Tassani is firmly convinced that the intimate need of religiousness can be expressed by praying to God, speaking about God, or meditating. In The Suggestions of the Divine, Tassani considers the nature of the divine and examines whether his analysis is rational and free of any polemic or verbatim intent.

    Sharing his beliefs and ideas, Tassani reflects on the themes of transcendence while seeking to demonstrate the results of virtuous research that seems to prove the personal need of a methodical explanation on the greatest myths of existence. As he systematically moves through the myths of creation, faith, divinity, the present, evil, human destiny, and Christ, Tassani attempts to answer a multitude of questions about his own existence and eventually come to a rational interpretation of his presence in the universe.

    The Suggestions of the Divine shares one mans thought-provoking reflections as he explores his perplexities, doubts, purpose, and simply wonders why.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAbbott Press
    Release dateFeb 5, 2014
    ISBN9781458213037
    The Suggestions of the Divine: Logic Revision of God’S and Myths’ Transcendence Hypothesis
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    Giuseppe Tassani

    Giuseppe Tassani, born in Rimini, Italy, is a physician who lived the experience when newly installed emergency rooms began to operate during the 1970s in small town hospitals with very few technological and personnel resources. He currently works mostly as a sports medicine specialist.

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      The Suggestions of the Divine - Giuseppe Tassani

      CONTENTS

      TO READERS

      INTRODUCTION

      THE MYTH OF CREATION

      THE MYTH OF FAITH

      THE MYTH OF DIVINITY

      THE MYTH OF PRESENT

      THE MYTH OF EVIL

      THE MYTH OF HUMAN DESTINY

      THE MYTH OF CHRIST

      SUMMARY

      VALEDICTION

      TO READERS

      When, at the turbulent age of sixteen, one happens to reflect, to talk about important topics, important matters which transcend our contingent existence and refer to the absolute and when all this occurs at sunset in a high summer’s day, before the diaphanous and seductive scenery of Casentino *, from Mount La Verna that holds some of the most celebrated symbols of Franciscan cult, those reflections, at that age, in that place and in that hour at the end of a day of gratifying physical exuberance, leave their mark on you forever.

      I am nostalgic about the company of the polite friendly priest who shared with us an unprepared cycling tour in Tuscany, we teenagers in our shirt-sleeves as occasional cyclists and he, pedaling with his rigorous cassock and his mature age.

      Despite the unexpressed discomfort with is habit and the effort to keep our speed, our friendly priest was always smiling, at least he appeared that way when we turned our eyes toward him to check that our distance from him did not become excessive.

      Our gentle priest friend, during the inevitable refreshing pauses and in some moments of sporadic gathering, had the wisdom not to introduce first the themes which were particularly inherent in his pastoral role. We felt his pleasant willingness to face our troubled and immature reflections, which sometimes emerged lively and spontaneous, even if inevitably inspired by the sanctity of those sites devoted to mysticism, when eventually they were lost before the mystery regarding the reason of existence: he, at that moment, assisted us politely to try to put our thoughts in order, always ready to express his opinion strongly sustained by a faith lived with manifest consistency, when requested.

      He never had recourse to prayers or rituals, so to speak ready-made and ready to use but as in those late August afternoons, in those places which led to a mystical fascinating experience, we felt him close and eager to share the intimacy of that charming experience and to reflect upon it.

      And it was not a question of insignificant meditations: didn’t we have to show gratitude to a good and rewarding creator for such captivating and comforting satisfaction? Could we accept the idea that such emotional intensity was only casual? The suspicion that it was an exact, reassuring and absorbing message, able to shake the most obstinate skepticism, emerged greatly. The friendly priest, then, intervened to reinforce that suspicion with greater strength and vividness using the pleasantness of one who is endowed with innate priestly grace.

      But even before those years of adolescence, I strongly felt attraction on the theme about the origin of the creation and I had always considered the overriding importance of the themes about the existence of God the Creator, even if bearing the marks of an unavoidable, imaginary manipulation.

      I like specifying that in some circumstances I have even proposed and upheld, with guessable inadequacy, that priority.

      I remember in fact on this regard that, I was about ten years old, therefore around 1948-49, when my town, Rimini, was a continuous building site after the awful ravages of war, I was charmed observing the progress of the bricklayers’ work, staying often behind asking them questions concerning some technical details, particularly of carpentry.

      It happened that despite my presence, kindly tolerated by them at the margin of those places of exhausting efforts, occasionally somewhere in those building sites, a more or less accidental teoclastica curse was hurled barely toned down in its explicit vehemence by the use of our dialect. At that point, avoiding to reprimand the exhausted desecrator, I stared a conversation with him trying to make him explain the reason of the insult against such a great authority.

      Therefore, long discussions started which widened and involved his fellow workers, so, in conclusion, substantial theological themes were analytically talked about with large participation, maybe not exactly sophisticated, but straightforward and passionate.

      All this happened, obviously, between a mixing of cement and another one and a constant coming and going of wheelbarrows on those wooden creaking scaffolds soaked with age-old dust.

      I kept that primitive interest of those discussions so essential and panting of those occasional interlocutors’ unceasing efforts, discussions which ranged from the existence of God to

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