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What is sin is based on the individual concerned. What you consider/treat as sin or wrong will not be a sin for me or for other people. People are educated now and his/her thinking/understanding of the world is totally different now.American/European persons have different views on each subject which may not be the same for people of Africa or Asia. Sin is also like that. In the past, say a 100 years ago, divorce was something unthinkable for most people of the world especially for Catholics but the situation has changed. It is very common for people to divorce and remarry in Civil courts and live happily. The Church may not approve it but no body bothers about the Church. There was no internet/fax/telex or any such communication facility a hundred years ago. No body could think of people going to Moon. No body could think of parents or other older people being sent to old age homes or other such institutions. It is 2015 and the God almighty understand human beings well. Christ said "you think of the Kingdom of God" and that is it.
Relativism is a poison. It attacks our most human capacity, the capacity to seek and know the truth, including the moral truth. A dictatorship of relativism imposes by real cultural force (and even by political force) a no-standard standard, a command that all must imbibe this poison.
As Cardinal Ratzinger noted in his Truth and Tolerance, “relativism … in certain respects has become the real religion of modern man.” It has become, especially in Europe, but now increasingly in America, the religion that stands at the heart of modern secular civilization in the way that Christianity defined the heart of Christendom.
It is the religion, Pope Benedict insists, which the Church must combat in the third millennium for the sake of civilization itself. A civilization built upon dogmatic relativism is one that ensures its own destruction. It is also a civilization in which Christianity — challenging dogmatic relativism with the proclamation that Jesus Christ himself is the Way, the Truth and the Life — must be persecuted.
Catholic ping!
“4. Be prepared for hostility for your belief.”
There’s some good advice.
Thanks for posting this.
[[1. We cannot rid ourselves of sin. “To uproot sin and the evil that is so imbedded in our sinning can be done only by divine power, for it is impossible and outside man’s competence to uproot sin.”]]
You can’t uproot it totally of course, but you CAN put a serious damper on it by ENFORCING laws against sin- or take it a step further, there was little open sin in biblical times (not that anyone is suggesting we go back to such harsh cultural laws)- and people were actually ashamed of sin back I n those days because they KNEW society looked down on such shameful acts- Sure, there was still sin, but it wasn’t nearly as public and brazen and shameless as it is today- the only places it was, was in societies back then that had no morals- much like today’s society
Fine article. And postings like this remind us to remember that Catholics, Orthodox, and Protestants are more alike,,than -any- of us are similar to the pagan elements in our society.
“We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one’s own ego and one’s own desires.”—Pope Benedict XVI
I can’t disagree with that, as I witness the truth of it constantly while talking to people about “judgmental” stuff. They resist God’s righteous judgments, as if He needed to clear them with “how people think today” before executing them.
C.S. Lewis just popped into my head with his essay GOD IN THE DOCK. Good piece if you can find it.