 
	January 2019
sIXTH PANEL DISCUSSION OF FER DISCOURSES:
"Who has the right to speak of God?" 
 
	    On  January 24, 2019 in IMIC centre, we discussed with the professor Juliana  Mladenovska-Tešija on the subject named "Who has the right to speak of  God?"
Moving through the space of dialogue and discussion and thinking of the  importance of the need to talk about God we came to the conclusion that everyone  has the right to speak about God, even those who do not believe, and that  speaking of God should arise as a result of the experience of "God as  passion ". 
The God of metaphysics was proclaimed dead by the time of nihilism, with  Nietzsche. Heidegger understood his cry - the overconscious God was overthrown,  as well as the values that were attributed to him. But the process of  preserving his place did not stop. After such a God has vanished, his place is  still preserved as the one that has become empty - the place where the doctrine  was sought was to be filled: political and religious, communist, capitalist. In  our area, he has been present since the beginning of the 1990s when religion  accepted to be the bearer of national identity and the patron of national  interests. This has resulted in the abuse of religious symbols and religious  speech in the public space, especially in dealing with the other, which is considered  different and a threat to one's own survival.
The point where the "religion of fear" penetrates into Christianity  (and similarly to other religions) religion is often raped and abused by those  who are considered its best guardians.
		  
Each of the modes of speaking about God requires openness, the willingness to  "respond" to speaking by the language, and listening to the  "silent response", because the word is silenced, and the word speaks  in silence. It's a listening-based answer. Man's life takes place between  silence and speech; between silence and words.
True faithful speech about God is the one that allows the encounter with the  Other, with his / her face. Out of the relationship with people, no knowledge  of God is possible. The second is a place of metaphysical truth and  indispensable for my own relationship with God. He does not play an  intermediary role. The other is not the embodiment of God, but his / her face  is the manifestation of the divinity where God proclaims.
Thus God is bent out of objectivity. But such a God disturbs the order of  thought. It can not be thematised, objectified, dogmatized, it cannot be a  subject, it is not even possible to percieve it. It goes over the human abilities.  When about the tolerance, it is not only the question of bringing and efforcing  the law, but it must be practiced in everyday life. It is not simple because it  means that as both believers as unbelievers are affirming each others credentials  to practice and to live a life in the way that they themselves reject. Let that  other being be as he / she is, must be in reciprocity and must be based on  awareness that we are all part of a human community where we have the same  rights but also of the community in which we all have the responsibility for  what we are talking about or doing in the public space. 
          		
	    

