Wednesday, April 25, 2007

What?

We live in a society where individual ego is at the forefront.

Relativism: So easy a caveman can understand it.

"Today, a particularly insidious obstacle to the task of education is the massive presence in our society and culture of that relativism which, recognizing nothing as definitive, leaves as the ultimate criterion only the self with its desires. And under the semblance of freedom it becomes a prison for each one, for it separates people from one another, locking each person into his or her own 'ego'" -- Pope Benedict XVI | June 6, 2005

“In the last century we experienced revolutions with a common programme – expecting nothing more from God, they assumed total responsibility for the cause of the world in order to change it. And this, as we saw, meant that a human and partial point of view was always taken as an absolute guiding principle. Absolutizing what is not absolute but relative is called totalitarianism. It does not liberate man, but takes away his dignity and enslaves him. It is not ideologies that save the world, but only a return to the living God, our Creator, the guarantor of our freedom, the guarantor of what is really good and true.” – Pope Benedict XVI | World Youth Day | August 2005

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

I am surprised no cavemen have commented!

5:13 PM  

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