CONV. BERLIN-MADRID

So, to be honest I couldn't find a single while these days to read the ZEIT article about human will. Before I do, and referring to what Chris has quoted about how "we may belong to kind of a compromise called God, though humankind has also something to say within this compromise", and about "how shall we answer to questions such as who is to blame for the evil on earth" (or topics of the kind), I would only want to say two things:

1. As Chris writes, we have to speak about lots of things, not necessarily only religion, which actually makes me think... who has mentioned religion? I think the fact is that we wanted to debate on whether there is any sense in searching for a single truth stuck to our human nature, and therefore what the essence of that truth is or how we are supposed to get to it. Naturally, we had to mention God. Though (also naturally), something else was mentioned that we looong debated up in Solar Bar (not a bad place at all, huh?) I don't know whether Lei got the text I sent to the rest of you about "Faith and Reason" (written by a prominent philologist, by the way, ;)), but it's an interesting starting point for the topic, I'd say (of course I read Merkel's article as soon as possible, promised!)

2. If one happens to think of the Truth as God, and consequently acknowledges God's nature and gets to know this, it would be either unfair or just ignorant to think that such a God would provoque such an evil side within men. Actually, what in my opinion is to be thought (and I believe it makes more sense, you'll tell me) is that God let humankind do. That is, God didn't program men to act according to God's will but to men's own will. The consequence of this is that acting according to God's will would only come along with faith; otherwise, men's own will would be playing Russian roulette, and there you have the result... (though of course we've also done great things, but you know what I mean)