[lbo-talk] Rat Man elected top robed celibate

John Adams jadams01 at sprynet.com
Tue Apr 19 10:54:59 PDT 2005


On Apr 19, 2005, at 1:27 PM, Kevin Robert Dean wrote:


> "To have a clear faith according to the church's creed is today often
> labeled fundamentalism," he said, "while relativism, letting ourselves
> be carried away by any wind of doctrine, appears as the only
> appropriate attitude for the today's times. A dictatorship of
> relativism is established that recognizes nothing definite and leaves
> only one's own ego and one's own desires as the final measure."
>
> The church has been shaken by "numerous ideological currents,"
> Ratzinger said. "The boat has been unanchored by these waves, thrown
> from one extreme to the other: from Marxism to liberalism, up to
> libertinism; from collectivism to radical individualism; from atheism
> to a vague religious mysticism; from agnosticism to syncretism, and on
> and on.
>
> "An adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest
> novelty," he concluded.

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