...so we have to re-establish order and this is the task of religion. The Jewish religion has this basic scheme: First there was order (the creatio... ...t is consolidated. The Christian religion adopts the basic scheme of the Jewish religion and it transforms it in the following manner: The Messia... ... of egotism and indifference they are hiding behind is nonviolence and not prayer. In A. Manzoni’s “The Betrothed”, Lucia Mondella convinces the Un... ... “The Betrothed”, Lucia Mondella convinces the Unnamed to free her through prayer. Gandhi convinced the English to free the Hindus with the violenc... ... the English to free the Hindus with the violence of nonviolence, not with prayer. What would he have been able to obtain with only prayer? Practic... ... Benedictines in their Abbeys created true islands of culture, of work and prayer while being in contact with the world and not separate from it. Eu... ...andhi longed for union with God and he spent hours and days fasting and in prayer, but his world was not the hereafter: his world was the one of the ...