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[QUOTE]Originally posted by David Sands: [QB] Cartman: Didn't have time to go into it very far. Plus, this not being the Flameboard, I didn't want to say something too provocative. But if it helps explain what I wrote (which on second look makes less sense than when I wrote it), this quote from B16's homily as dean of the college gets at what irks him about relativism and the less savory attributes of modernity. [QUOTE] The little ship bearing the thoughts of many Christians has frequently been shaken by these waves, thrown from one extreme to the other: from Marxism to liberalism, even to libertarianism; from collectivism to radical individualism; from atheism to a vague religious mysticism; from agnosticism to syncretism, and so on. Every day new sects arise, and St. Paul's words concerning the deception of men and the cunning that leads into error come true. Having a clear faith, according to the Creed of the Church, is often labeled as fundamentalism. While relativism, in other words allowing oneself to be "tossed to and fro with every wind of doctrine," appears as the only attitude appropriate to modern times, a dictatorship of relativism is being formed, one that recognizes nothing as definitive and that has as its measure only the self and its desires. [/QUOTE]This has been on the church's mind now for some time, especially the European cardinals. (To get back to the original context of what I wrote) that's why his election wasn't so out of left field. For the ecumenalists and Catholic Social Thought folks, he came as quite a surprise. But for those who worry about losing JP2's legacy, the failing faith of Europe, and the American sex abuse scandels, he had the exact background they wanted in the man occupying the post. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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