Since we have already done it once, we will be able to defeat Marxism again - it was said today in Budapest, at the conference of the Szent István Institute, where they discussed what the future of Europe could be and how Christianity could shape it. Mandiner reports.

Faith provides a lasting foundation for a person's morality - emphasized Bishop András Veres at the Szent István Institute's conference in Budapest on Tuesday. The president of the Hungarian Catholic Bishops' Conference emphasized that the Christian image of man is based on faith in God, and morality is closely related to the concept of God. He reminded: the basis of Christian anthropology is that man is created in the image of God.

The dignity of a person who believes in Christ in baptism causes him to rejoice, the peculiarity of a Christian person is that he perceives his life as a gift. Quoting Heidegger, he said, "no age has known as much about man as the present, but no age has known less about what man is." He warned: respect for the human being has completely weakened in our time, this is also reflected in the widespread acceptance of abortion, euthanasia, and eugenic interventions.

Legally permitted abortion does not yet become morally justifiable, said the bishop of Győr.

The bishop drew attention to the importance of the conscious, destructive liberal political intention in connection with the loss of social value, which calls into question all community and individual authority and relativizes the Christian value system. At the same time, he also warned about the responsibility of the elite. "There is a need for cooperation between denominations, believers and non-believers in order to avoid the threatening social explosion in our time, and this can be based on respect for the other person," András Veres pointed out.

We were wrong when we thought that the regime change dealt a final blow to Marxism, said Mária Schmidt, director general of the House of Terror Museum, at the conference. He pointed out that the Italian Christian philosopher Agosto del Noce was right when he emphasized that Marxism only died out in the East, but in the West it took over in the meantime. According to him, materialism, relativism and nihilism won, left-wing radicalism forced the West to surrender, meanwhile it became a real substitute for religion.

In her lecture entitled Drifting civilization, the re-westernization of Marxism, Mária Schmidt also touched on the fact that Marx's historical relativism is the doctrine of materialism, so secular that it forms a religion out of itself, while it wants to radically change society. The director-general pointed out that left-wing radicalism swept away Christian morality and values, but did not replace it with anything.

"There is no common faith, no common goal, no common vision of the future" - this is what Marxism brought to the West, said Mária Schmidt.

In his speech, Reformed bishop Zoltán Balog asked the question: is it possible to trust in the renewed prosperity of Christianity without the renewal of the church. According to his own answer, no, and the renaissance requires personal renewal and strengthening in faith. The church is not simply a sociological institution, but a transcendent reality, and it should be viewed as such. As he emphasized: the Christian-democratic idea cannot be renewed without the renewal of the church.

At the conference, István Hollik, the parliamentary representative of the KDNP, pointed out that in the discourse on the future of the European Union, the protection of Christian culture is not a topic, so we Hungarians must bring it to the European stage. He sees that the Western mainstream is still permeated by Marxism, but on the other hand, Christianity as a community-organizing identity represents a sufficiently strong alternative. The battle, the spiritual fight, is inevitable, we have to fight it, and every single Hungarian will be responsible for it - stressed István Hollik.

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