TGM left us here at the age of 74. There were surprisingly many right-wing obituaries about the left-wing philosopher. It is written that nothing is good about a dead person, so any commemoration rather praises his great education and being an intellectual thinker, but one could not agree with that. He was a great thinker, with great education, who was fueled by an "intellectual thirst for adventure", so he went astray a lot. His life path led from the "socialist left to the socialist left", but in the meantime he was an anarchist, conservative, liberal and Marxist. He died a Marxist who described himself as a "communist in his own way". Perhaps his life path would have been straighter if he had studied theology. His father was afraid of this, and when he started learning Greek, he complained that he must want to read the New Testament in the original. Both of his marriages took place in a church, and he nurtured his Jewish roots, leading his son to learn the Talmud and the Hebrew language. He gave the most precise definition of the essence of Christianity, which is why we said that it would have been better if he had dealt with theology instead of Marxism. What did he say?
In one of Klubrádió's broadcasts, he said that Christianity is 2,000 years old, but its teachings are unknown. Jesus' ideal is actually virginity. We should not be concerned with ourselves, but with God. We must love the divine Father and, of course, each other. We do not know how he understood the communist, the Marxist, the salvation of Jesus in his own way, that he was actually crucified for our sins so that he could take us to the Father, but he saw the ideal of Jesus well.
Perhaps this ideal of Jesus can be filtered less from the Bible, and more from the lives and teachings of the saints. Yet the Bible alludes to this in several places, for example the virgin birth, the lives of the apostles, who left their families and lived in a fraternal relationship with their wives, serving only God. St. Paul refers to "I would rather you lived as I do", i.e. as a virgin. From the story of Creation, it is clear that before the fall, there was no flesh, they were not ashamed of each other, even though they were naked. Shame, carnality, and the earthly way of procreating children are the work of the serpent, which only occurred after his appearance and the fall. Jesus actually came to bring us back to the virgin state before the fall. Therefore, virginity is actually the ideal of Jesus, TGM, the thinking philosopher, saw it well.
We don't have to deal with ourselves, but with God - he also saw this well. All earthly things distract from God. Many people are so absorbed in their earthly affairs that they forget about God, that we will return to him after our death. God even forbids Christian saints to make friends with other people, this can be read in the biographies of many saints. Did TGM also read the lives of saints, or did he just see clearly in theological matters, while this cannot be said about others, if we think about how much he went astray, from anarchy, then from left to left.
It should be noted that when he said, "I am a communist in my own way", he added: not in the sense of the Leninist tradition. He was also anti-communist and did not support communist Bolshevism. In fact, he was a great idealist, he believed in Marx that heaven can be brought down to earth. Communism is the idea of heaven on earth, without God. TGM considered equality important, people are equally valuable. He often mentioned Rousseau's ideas on education and his views on society. About education: how to set children free, but not let them become wild. "How is it possible for everyone to be good?" In fact, TGM always wanted to improve society, but it wasn't exactly looking for it in the right place. He fought against inequalities. He was able to say unexpected and surprising things, or even categorical statements that were exaggerated, you couldn't really agree with them. He said, for example, "socialism or fascism". If it's not socialism, then it was fascism for him. He soon finished his career in the SZDSZ, then went back to the left. This is how he died as a Marxist, we can only hope that he was not without God, like the Marxists, because he was that in his own way, even God could fit into that.
We know that those who lived with God on earth will live with God beyond. On the other hand, he who lived without God on earth will live without him in the afterlife.
"May the LORD your God be with you!" (2 Sam 14,17)
Catherine the Spider
Opening image: MTI/László Beliczay
