“Now that we know the pathologies and the deadly illnesses of religion and reason, the destructions of the image of God by hatred and fanaticism, it is important to clearly tell in what God we believe and positively profess this human face of God”. This is the conviction of the Pope who from the esplanade of Islinger Feld highlighted that in the second part of the Creed, “God does not let us fumble in the dark. He showed Himself as a man. He is so great that He can afford to become so very small. God has taken a human face. He loves us so much that for us He left Himself be nailed to the Cross, to carry the sufferings of humanity up to the heart of God”. Hence the need to “clearly tell in what God we believe and positively profess this human face of God”. “Only this the Pope thinks sets us free of the fear of God a feeling from which modern atheism was eventually born”. “Only this God specified Benedict XVI saves us from the fear of the world and from our anxiety in front of the void of life. Only by looking at Jesus Christ does our joy in God reach its height, becomes redeemed joy”.
