RCCB #50
Not susceptible or stoppable by your church, a new religious teaching, testable by faith, meeting all Enlightenment criteria for definitive proof now exists.
What a hoot – the Enlightenment! The present worsening in reason and faith is the obvious result of the relativism and secularism following the revolt and so-called Enlightenment – that anything goes. The new religion of the so-called Enlightenment was welcomed by selfists.
The “Enlightenment” ushered in a new world religion, as recognised by Pope Paul VI in closing the Second Vatican Council: “At the Council, the religion of God made man” had encountered “the religion of man aspiring to be God” in its deepest roots and in many of its practical objectives a Christian heresy.”
“When wrenched from their Christian context and raised to the status of absolutes, the notions to which the children of the Enlightenment give priority, such as liberty and equality, no matter how good in themselves, can receive a quite different significance and even become appallingly destructive….”
[Philip Trower, *The Catholic Church And The Counter-Faith, Family Publications, Oxford, 2006, p 18-21].
From Dr Benjamin Wiker (
Ten Books Every Conservative Must Read).
‘Thomas Hobbes was the first modern thinker to systematically attack the notion that there is any natural moral order. He argued that the words “good” and “evil” are merely descriptions of our own individual likes and dislikes – he was thus the father of modern relativism.
‘Hobbes felt that the idea of moral truths meant that they would be fought for and so were the cause of all war. In such a relativistic world tyranny he thought that would be required to keep the peace and so is the father of modern absolutism and modern liberalism in politics. As Philip Trower has written: “After Descartes had philosophically shut men up inside their minds, the English philosopher John Locke redecorated the prison’s interior, the Scott David Hume locked the door and the Prussian Immanuel Kant through away the key.” ’ (
The Catholic Church And The Counter-Faith, Family Publications, Oxford, 2006, p 73).
tothesource.org/10_6_2010/10_6_2010.htm
Father John McCloskey, reviewing *How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization *by Thomas E. Woods Jr. - published by Regnery Publishing, 2005:
“Western institutions, though often originating in Athens and Jerusalem, were developed into a Catholic culture in a process that accelerated from the early Middle Ages right up to the time of the Reformation and the Enlightenment.
“At that point, the progenitors of these distinct rebellions against the Church began using Western institutions for their own particular purposes, growing out of but foreign to their Catholic origins…. Woods notes, ‘Western civilization stands indebted to the Church for the university system, charitable work, international law, the sciences, and, important legal principles. … Western civilization owes far more to the Catholic Church than most people — Catholic included — often realize. … The Church, in fact, built Western civilization.’….
