Our Lady Star of the Sea



Homily OutlineWorldview Denial of the Fall as part of the explanation for human evil.Past Wednesday night videos: Bishop Barron on Resisting Aggressive Secularism and Is the world getting better or worse? A look at the numbers | Steven Pinker“An essential contour in the modern progressive vision is the denial of the Fall as part of the explanation for human evil.” – From Christendom to Apostolic Mission. By University of St. MaryYou see this one lived out in the news all the timeThis second element of the modern progressive view you may find very interesting because it kind of helps explain a lot of what you see in the news and explains why a lot of people approach society and culture’s problems the way they do. I’m going to give you three expressions of it today.Modern progressives have left behind the Christian faith and it's understanding of the world and of humanity, what we call Christian anthropology – and so they are left to search about to find other explanations for the phenomena that they find in the world. Today we're going to talk about how they try to explain the reality of evil and suffering.1. What is the modern explanation for evil?For the progressive vision…aware of evil in the world, finds the source of that evil elsewhere: it is not the result of an internal wound in each human, but the bad fruit of ignorance, whether physical laws or social structures or psychological principles. – From Christendom to Apostolic Mission. By University of St. Mary pg. 802. Where did this thinking come from?“Like all historical phenomena, they have a genealogy, a story that stretches back in time and makes their emergence and their cultural dominance comprehensible.” The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self. by Carl Trueman pg. 106 “Augustine blames himself for his sin because he is basically wicked from birth; Rousseau blames society for his sin because he is basically good at birth and then perverted by external forces.” Pg. 111 3. How do we see the “Denial of the Fall” expressed in modern world?The progressive vision still needed to identify a source for the prevalence of active evil in the world. That source has always been found in a particular group of people who have been deemed to stand athwart the March of human progress. It might be the aristocracy, or the Jews, or the bourgeoisie, or the Catholics, or the homophobes, or the breeders, or the reactionaries, or the whoever…Having relegated demons to the nursery, every utopian progressive vision finds itself constrained to demonize some portion of fellow humans. – From Christendom to Apostolic Mission. By University of St. Mary pg. 80Alexander Solzhenitsyn explains one of the best examples of this in the Gulag Archipelago in the section where he tells the history of the Soviet “dekulakization” – when the government identified a particular group of farmers and made them the source of evil, hunger and want in Russia. They were demonized as the source of all the problems.But more importantly how is it expressed in our current situation? Well, it would be that rather than some business owners are greedy and take advantage of their workers and don’t pay a fair wageall business owners are greedy, and we live in a constant state of war with them for our survivalor you could do that with the landlords, liberals, leftists, conservatives etc.some people are racistby being white you are a racistby being black you are thisby being Asian you are thissome police do evil thingsall cops are badthe “homophobes” the “transphobes” whatever other “phobe” you can come up withConclusionWhere does evil come from? It’s not the Jews, or the rich, or the progressives, or the conservatives, or blacks, or whites – it is not about some group. It’s about me. ................
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