Pope Benedict XVI: The Papal War Against Self |
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| Media Link - Washington Times | ||||
| Saturday, 23 April 2005 00:00 | ||||
According to the new Pope: 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. Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church, is often labeled today as a fundamentalism," he said, making clear that he disagrees with that view. Relativism is, of course, bad, and ultimately can lead to dictatorship. Relativism is the cognitive state in which people conclude there are no absolutes and there is no objective knowledge. It undermines science, rationality, mental coping and, at the core, decimates human reason. It's the guiding philosophy of our day, and the consequences are chaos and uncertainty, not to mention growing vulnerability to terrorists whose role is to simply prey on such weaknesses. The new Pope, like his predecessor, has accurately diagnosed the problem: too much relativism in the world. But his cure is simply more faith; more trust in authorities who make decisions behind closed doors and communicate their decisions to hapless, hopeless losers with nothing more than smoke; to blind faith in out-of-context, dogmatic and unreasoning commandments. The Pope says the world is perishing from too much self and too little faith in entities outside oneself. He couldn't be more wrong.
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