Ден за размисъл или време за мълчание - християнски ориентири
A day of reflection or a time of silence - Christian guidelines

Summary/Abstract: The author started work on the present article – “Day of Reflection or Time to Keep Silence – Christian Guidelines” – a day before the next consecutive snap elections in Republic of Bulgaria on Oct. 27th, 2024. Nobody in the country can say anymore what their number in turn is. For nearly four years from the summer of 2021, the political crisis marked its apex. The author feels, contrary to his hopes, that an exit from such a dead end can hardly be found. Unfortunately, political narratives are still aggravated, malicious and scandalous which crashes any attempt to reach consensus for the benefit of the public and the country. The author muses in hoping that the Day of Reflection would not be perceived in its narrow literary meaning, nut in a broader sense as a possibility for drawing an adequate balance between the past and the present for these would be life landmarks of people’s expectations for the future.In the so-called Day of Reflection, under Bulgarian legislation stipulated on the day before the Ballot Day, whatever kind the elections should be, voters are granted by law a 24 period for taking a decision without pressure from the outside (under art. 182, para. 4 of the Elections Code regulating non-admissible election campaigning in the Ballot Day). The legislator presupposes that the voter shall take an informed decision and not be suddenly and arbitrarily dawned and persuaded by a sum of money, whatever the amount (hinting evidently to the hypothesis of the so-called bought or con-trolled vote). The musings of the author are not necessarily subjected to the issue of the significance of elections them-selves due to the fact that any reasonable person is fully aware of the answer – elections are the only legitimate method of upholding democracy in all its aspects, regardless of the fact that till recently there have been many totalitarian re-gimes that legitimized their rule via allegedly democratic ballots. Rather, the author’s humble attempt is at sharing his perception of the Day of Reflection in a more politically biased context that is conceptually grounded in the abstract theological discourse. The reason for such a cognitive symbiosis is not rooted in the outcomes of a self-righteous whim for detailed innovative perusal, but rather in the deep necessity to resort to keeping silent to oneself. Hence, the author considers this much maligned Day of Reflection, recently attempted to be effaced at Parliament, as an attempt to be re-thought as “time for keeping silence”. Alas, verbiage on the topic is inevitable, especially in the light of the above-mentioned cognitive symbiosis.The author is not oblivious to the perplexity this article will bring to the readers as to why the topic which pertains to the political life in the country should not be left to the ambit of political science and sociology, and moreover, as to why should it be pushed to applied theology, especially Christian theology. Realizing this to the full, the author feels auda-cious to make the attempt due to the circumstances of the present extremely aggravated Day of political and interper-sonal confrontation and antagonism. He firmly believes that namely such findings of the day being highly aggravated presuppose the counter decisive intervention of theological thought, since theology has a saying.

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