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My frame of thought has more so followed from the exploration of G.K. Chesterton. He explored everything, every thought, every detail, and wrote about it. Even talked about it as well. The Catholic frame of mind is founded on the basis of Freethinking.
But as with everything we build our beliefs upon, and even on a philosophical structure, still is affected by the Fall, Sin, Flesh, and the Devil. So too does Catholic Freethinking.
I am of the mind someone should be able to question everything, and anything. As long, mind you, he or she is in search of the truth. Unfortunately due to something as Moral Relativism, or Nihilistic thinking, life is what you want to make it, or has not meaning at all.
I am one of those who has struggled with both moral relativism and the nihilistic view. Namely it suites and/or serves my purpose. Though be it, I seek love, and truth. But, I tend to want it my way, instead of God’s way. And, my view over the truth. So it’s contending with the truth, rather than serving it. Or understanding.
My life’s struggles play in a large part why I contend with the truth. For I doubt, sometimes. Not all the time. But sometimes I do. And the times that I do, I fall seriously, and heavily.
It began with my parents divorce and breakdown of a family union. In a large part began to lose a lot of trust. Not only in them, but in other people as well. Including law and authority. And in God. At least now as I am older, my trust seems narrower, and dwindling.
Though, truthfully, I want hope. I want love. I want to be loved. And to love. But in truth. I don’t want lies, deceit, and being led into hell. I want to be saved. I may have foibles along the way. I’m fallen. Those rupture any vein of existence drawing from the truth, and leave the soul dead - in the peril of hell (which is designed/designated for madness and despair.)
But what does this have to do with Freethinking in the Catholic sense? Well, as I’ve understood the Church, Her mind is always in a holistic approach. But much more deeper. Today’s philosophies, modernist ones fall short of that, in faith. For the Church looks at Hope with right Reason, and Judgement, and takes care not to leave the soul helpless landing and falling into despair, but pulling the wondering soul up, out of it. But modernist philosophies do not. And quite consequentially, Freethinking is abandoned. For at the thought that a God exists, and loves every human person is a dangerous philosophy. And as Chesterton has illustrated: Christianity has never been tried, and left wanting.
The strange creatures of this time, with it’s philosophical tentacles, try to drag/draw souls down, those who really honestly serve the mark of the beast, so-to-speak, do not believe a God loved every person into existence. And the reason why is because the world has failed to observe that. Namely as the Two Greatest Commandments: Love Thy God with all your heart, all your mind, and all your strength. And Love Thy neighbor as you love thy self. We have lost that in the modernist century.
Truth stands on the firm foundation of Love. Without it, all our hopes/dreams & accomplishments are dead; our love for wisdom
But as with everything we build our beliefs upon, and even on a philosophical structure, still is affected by the Fall, Sin, Flesh, and the Devil. So too does Catholic Freethinking.
I am of the mind someone should be able to question everything, and anything. As long, mind you, he or she is in search of the truth. Unfortunately due to something as Moral Relativism, or Nihilistic thinking, life is what you want to make it, or has not meaning at all.
I am one of those who has struggled with both moral relativism and the nihilistic view. Namely it suites and/or serves my purpose. Though be it, I seek love, and truth. But, I tend to want it my way, instead of God’s way. And, my view over the truth. So it’s contending with the truth, rather than serving it. Or understanding.
My life’s struggles play in a large part why I contend with the truth. For I doubt, sometimes. Not all the time. But sometimes I do. And the times that I do, I fall seriously, and heavily.
It began with my parents divorce and breakdown of a family union. In a large part began to lose a lot of trust. Not only in them, but in other people as well. Including law and authority. And in God. At least now as I am older, my trust seems narrower, and dwindling.
Though, truthfully, I want hope. I want love. I want to be loved. And to love. But in truth. I don’t want lies, deceit, and being led into hell. I want to be saved. I may have foibles along the way. I’m fallen. Those rupture any vein of existence drawing from the truth, and leave the soul dead - in the peril of hell (which is designed/designated for madness and despair.)
But what does this have to do with Freethinking in the Catholic sense? Well, as I’ve understood the Church, Her mind is always in a holistic approach. But much more deeper. Today’s philosophies, modernist ones fall short of that, in faith. For the Church looks at Hope with right Reason, and Judgement, and takes care not to leave the soul helpless landing and falling into despair, but pulling the wondering soul up, out of it. But modernist philosophies do not. And quite consequentially, Freethinking is abandoned. For at the thought that a God exists, and loves every human person is a dangerous philosophy. And as Chesterton has illustrated: Christianity has never been tried, and left wanting.
The strange creatures of this time, with it’s philosophical tentacles, try to drag/draw souls down, those who really honestly serve the mark of the beast, so-to-speak, do not believe a God loved every person into existence. And the reason why is because the world has failed to observe that. Namely as the Two Greatest Commandments: Love Thy God with all your heart, all your mind, and all your strength. And Love Thy neighbor as you love thy self. We have lost that in the modernist century.
Truth stands on the firm foundation of Love. Without it, all our hopes/dreams & accomplishments are dead; our love for wisdom
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