Tapsearch Com EditorLiberalism imploding
October 6th 2008 23:05
By Ray Tapajna, based on notes from Father McQuade course.
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" The modern world is not evil;" says G. L. Chesterson, "in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and wasted virtues......The modern world is full of old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone."
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Christian tradition presented many of these virtues throughout history. Liberalism hooks on to them and drives them in many directions. Many say the church has to adapt to modern times and they set doctrinal decrees aside. Religion, truth and justice must be maintained by doctrinal decrees or else things begin to bang against each other without distinguishing between good and evil elements. Liberty is an ancient concept and not something new. Liberals like to think they have latch onto something new but the plain truth does not change. Truth needs backup. It needs a fixed rule of teaching what is to be done and what is to be left undone .
The truth of ages tells us we are finite and limited beings and the perfectibility of human nature under its own power is impossible. We have free will to choose our way in life but without divine help, we are left to roam the surface of truth without ever grasping it. Our wills were created to reach for absolute truth and not for anything lesser than that.
The fundamental doctrine of Rationalism is the supremacy of human reason. Human reason on its own is destined to failure. Liberals in the modern world refuses to accept things outside their own reason. There is no divine authority to guide their way. This leads to a never ending loop for truth to surface in individual choices. When a man decides he is subject to no one, it follows that community is a very difficult thing to form. In the process, the state is put in place to govern all the different choices and as we see today these choices conflict with one another in a world of fragmentation. And when the state trys to centralize all units , the good comes but at the same time, the bad that was decentralized according to individual choices are collected into a powerful force that collides with truth.
We should consider freedom of speech and the press but these can not be rights because of so many contradictions in the process. Truth is not something indifferent and can not depend on just opinions and polling. How can there be a common good come out of this . There can only be particular goods which compete with one another.
Only tension and protest follows with people using the term the common good and changing it to being uncommon in practice. In economics, so called conservatives today following a liberal interpretation of almost everything for the sake of greed.
(Extra note: The 2008 financial crisis is caused by the fracturing of the free enterprise system and smashing our economy into pieces sending the parts around the world. An economy based on making money on money instead of making things is burning out. )
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" The modern world is not evil;" says G. L. Chesterson, "in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and wasted virtues......The modern world is full of old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone."
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Christian tradition presented many of these virtues throughout history. Liberalism hooks on to them and drives them in many directions. Many say the church has to adapt to modern times and they set doctrinal decrees aside. Religion, truth and justice must be maintained by doctrinal decrees or else things begin to bang against each other without distinguishing between good and evil elements. Liberty is an ancient concept and not something new. Liberals like to think they have latch onto something new but the plain truth does not change. Truth needs backup. It needs a fixed rule of teaching what is to be done and what is to be left undone .
The truth of ages tells us we are finite and limited beings and the perfectibility of human nature under its own power is impossible. We have free will to choose our way in life but without divine help, we are left to roam the surface of truth without ever grasping it. Our wills were created to reach for absolute truth and not for anything lesser than that.
The fundamental doctrine of Rationalism is the supremacy of human reason. Human reason on its own is destined to failure. Liberals in the modern world refuses to accept things outside their own reason. There is no divine authority to guide their way. This leads to a never ending loop for truth to surface in individual choices. When a man decides he is subject to no one, it follows that community is a very difficult thing to form. In the process, the state is put in place to govern all the different choices and as we see today these choices conflict with one another in a world of fragmentation. And when the state trys to centralize all units , the good comes but at the same time, the bad that was decentralized according to individual choices are collected into a powerful force that collides with truth.
We should consider freedom of speech and the press but these can not be rights because of so many contradictions in the process. Truth is not something indifferent and can not depend on just opinions and polling. How can there be a common good come out of this . There can only be particular goods which compete with one another.
Only tension and protest follows with people using the term the common good and changing it to being uncommon in practice. In economics, so called conservatives today following a liberal interpretation of almost everything for the sake of greed.
(Extra note: The 2008 financial crisis is caused by the fracturing of the free enterprise system and smashing our economy into pieces sending the parts around the world. An economy based on making money on money instead of making things is burning out. )
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