Ed, so that I can understand your argument, are you saying that if we outlaw evolution we will rid society of pornography, homosexuality, prostitution, drugs, cigarettes, lung cancer, no-fault pregnancy, divorce, bad TV sitcoms, and other ills? I’m honestly trying to understand your argument.
StAnastasia
I watched as the Body of Christ was slowly, systematically poisoned. All levels of society were gradually poisoned, including science and the Church.
But let’s focus on science.
Kinsey in the 1950s produces a highly distorted study of human sexuality but it is promoted as fact.
The birth control pill is introduced in 1960. But how do you convince those committed Catholics out there to buy it and use it? In 1968, the Church, seeing the trend toward greater openness regarding sex and seeing the rise of the anti-Establishment and anti-Church Hippies, tells Catholics: here’s what’s going to happen if you use artificial birth control.
But the pharmaceutical industry will lose potentially millions of sales. Soon, all levels of society are permeated by radicals, including colleges, seminaries, and all those places where seeds of doubt needed to be sown, as well as outright lies.
Let’s jump to the present. So many experts are trying to convince people that all sorts of sinful practices are OK. Science is on their side. Unfortunately, because sin is part of the human condition, studies can be paid for and the desired conclusion can be presented as opposed to the facts. The fact that there is a real entity at work in people’s lives, the devil, is discounted as some quaint, old idea. But even here, people argue that we should prefer ourselves and our knowledge over God. And scientists, wittingly and unwittingly, have allied themselves to this cause. Believing, without discernment, that they are in control.
Evolutionism, the philosophy that insists our genetic material raised us to a level of consciousness where we could experience some vague god concept needs to be exposed as a fantasy. The idea that we are just, and only, another animal needs to be exposed as a fantasy. The idea that only science will lead us to all truth needs to be exposed for what it is: an attempt to place scientists in control of human life and human society.
The theory of evolution needs to be understood as the Church understands it. A creative reason established the universe, and this idea should not be considered in some arbitrary, mythic or illogical way. The Intelligent Project that is Creation was done by God. We are not haphazard mistakes. But most leading scientists, even after they leave work for the day, will not agree to that.
And what is the message and work of the Church? To spread the Good News, that God sent His Son to live and then die for us for the remission of sins. The fantasy that sin has been abolished needs to be exposed as well.
Peace,
Ed
Could it be “philosophical” or “theological” religion?