there are values worth dying for, because a life purchase could cost of betraying these values based on the betrayal on reason for living and is therefore a life destroyed from within. we could express what is meant here as follows where there is no longer anything worth dying for, life is no longer worthwhile, then it has lost its point. and this is not only true for the individual, common culture has values that justify the commitment of ones life if such values no longer exist we also loss the reasons and the forces that maintain social union and preserve a country as a community of life.
man needs transcendence, intimacy alone is too narrow for him, he’s created for more... the denial of afterlife led initially to a passionate glorification of life, the alibi of life at any price. man needs morality in order to be himself.. but morality requires faith in creation and immortality. that it needs the objectivity of obligation and the definitiveness of responsibility and fulfillment.. Benedict XVI
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