The radical nature of the gift: Freedom.

 By now certain terms are losing all meaning, they all use them everywhere. Freedom, responsibility, democracy, voices have become flatus, mood music. We need to redefine the terms and on this basis define which side to stay.

Freedom is obligation, responsibility. Freedom obliges, not free. 

But then if freedom has this meaning .....

.... It is clear that if freedom is characterized as responsibility, my capacity for will be at the height of freedom abandon me completely in the answer, just to make me all answer. So, if freedom is responsible,

I will be completely free when I have emptied myself completely in the answer. When I'll be nothing but
reply. Here is the radical concept of gift, which should illuminate every donative act: freedom as responsibility yes necessarily concludes in my ability to give myself a gift, to answer me, and giving is from this point of view the most proper image of freedom.

From this point of view there is no distinction between believer and non-believer. The believer is the one who believes his freedom and his ability to give is in turn given to him, and this cannot be said by the non-believer. But on the fact that freedom is conceivable only as responsibility and gift there can be no difference between the two. The difference is
it places it on a completely different level, more properly theological.

And then, along the path that leads us to this idea of ​​freedom as a responsibility and therefore a gift, there is in the whole its dramatic evidence is the evangelical parable, that of Luke 17:10. When he says that some servants do everything what the boss had commanded them and at the end of their working day they are called to say: we have done

.... all we owed, we are useless servants. We are servants because we simply do our job
obeyed, in addition useless, from the very rooted point of view of the Gospel. That is, as long as you only obey in this one key and you do not love, that is, you do not demonstrate this superhuman and indefinable freedom of yours through the gift and sacrifice of yourself which is the gift of your freedom, you are not only a servant but you are also useless. Yet they are people who have made it up in
fund their duty, absolutely indisputable.

This is the radicality with which we must face these issues. Because any of our practices are enlightened
 from its limit idea. And within this we can also develop all our policies, which will stand from one
precise part, in fair conflict with the others. Because conflict is healthy since it makes decisions mature and without decisions there is no son, there is no mature man, there is no volunteer work.