Single Idea 23849

[catalogued under 29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 1. Religious Commitment / a. Religious Belief]

Full Idea

The proper function of religion is to suffuse with its light all secular life, public or private, without in any way dominating it.

Gist of Idea

Religion should quietly suffuse all human life with its light

Source

Simone Weil (The Need for Roots [1943], II 'Nation')

Book Reference

Weil,Simone: 'The Need for Roots' [Routledge 2002], p.118


A Reaction

Even for the non-religious there is something attractive about some view of the world which 'suffuses our lives with light'. It probably describes medieval Christendom, but that contained an awful lot of darkness.