re: "The First Afterlife of Pope Benedict XVI" (The New York Times, January 1, 2023)
It sounds lovely, but the reality is that "a synthesis of reason and supernatural religion" cannot exist unless reason closes its eyes, ears and mouth to the unreason that is faith-based supernatural religion.
The pews are also emptying in better educated nations precisely because since Plato at least, some 400 years before Jesus Christ, educated people have known that religions and gods cannot found good morals, and that many official church doctrines are morally wrong, just as its metaphysics is wrong.
The sacrament of the eucharist perhaps sums it up best: who would accept, as Benedict and his cohort do, that regularly eating real human flesh and drinking actual human blood is a good thing to be doing?
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The above comment was submitted by Felix Qui to The New York Times article.
It is published there at https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/01/opinion/pope-benedict-xvi-catholic-church.html#commentsContainer&permid=122327250:122327250
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