BOOK
Author: Erich Von Daniken
Italian edition Title: Riddles from the past
Edition consulted: Sugarco, 1980
First edition: 1973
One of the many books written by this set with the Swiss " little green men. " The idea of \u200b\u200bVon Däniken is that extraterrestrial beings, equipped with superior technology, have created and influenced humanity, leaving traces of their presence in numerous myths, ancient artifacts and images whose historical position is completely anachronistic. The workhorse of Von Däniken is now a literary classic "misteriosofica" the book of Enoch, the stone of Palenque, the slopes of Nazca, the Antikythera mechanism, the map of Piri Reis, etc.. Who does not know them now? Some of these examples are quite impressive and almost convincing, but the fact remains that the idea of \u200b\u200bthe creators came from space is only the final stage of intellectual degeneration, which has now reduced the "sky", a symbol of spiritual states, the only reality material.
Von Däniken and all its supporters only see what they want to see: of course, the reality is likely to be misinterpreted, but it is the nature of things. Even the possible interpretations are many. What makes the difference? Only the skills of discernment. The faculty by which we can distinguish what is real from what seems true.
The reality is that faith in the gods from space is a current anti-traditional, that exploits human weakness, to strike at the heart of the last vestiges of tradition. It is no coincidence that such beliefs, as may be unscientific, increasingly go hand in hand with the modern mind, agnostic, atheist and anticlerical. But where do we divert mental? Some people do not want to believe in God in the name of rationality, and then believe in "little green men"? There are those who want to reject two thousand years of Christianity to jump blindly into this modern mythology and banal?
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