THE MEANING OF THE WORD RELIGION AND ITS RELEVANCE by Daniel Gurpide The origina

THE MEANING OF THE WORD RELIGION AND ITS RELEVANCE

by Daniel Gurpide

The original meaning of the Latin word religio—from religare, to tie fast—was never used until Constantinian times to describe the ‘superstitio nova ac malefica’ represented by Christianity and has nothing to do with the metaphysical or fideistic concepts introduced by monotheism.

It is simply what binds together the members of a political and ethno-cultural community.

As such, religion has two aspects: the myth—the representation that we choose to have of our own past, and more generally of the universe, in relation to the future, the destiny that we want to create; and the rite—the evocation and celebration of our being together with the intention of provoking a general mobilisation of spirits:

A Nationalisation of The Masses that is a necessary condition for the new European Nation to have a destiny worthy of its own past, and worthy of what we once were – and could be again.

This is the real religious question.