The French Revolution was the political triumph of philosophical abstraction, with a powerful load of ambition and a certain dose of patriotism. Enlightened (who enlightened them?) Were separated sharply from the religious and secular moral tradition of Europe and established a new regime political and ethical, based on abstract ideals that have, without being violated, bloodshed in the Gallic hexagon. Freedom required to eliminate their enemies counter. The cruelty did not seem to contradict the ideal of brotherhood. The ruling bourgeoisie did not sin, despite maintaining slavery, violating the sacred equality, written in pamphlets, encyclopedias, and constitutions. The Jacobins of the tricolor republic had found the perfect formula for total impunity for their crimes. Abstract ideals justify torture, genocide, pillage and rape each and every one of the sacrosanct rights Declaration of Human Rights and citizen, while singing its wonders.
The abstraction was a terrible weapon in the hands of fanatical arsonists who manipulated ignorant masses. Times change, yes. Today we do not like the bleeding and "only" covet the souls of the citizens, as if they were satanic desire. Manipulative abstraction has become more sophisticated and has become invisible lever to expel God from our public space and the mass conscience miserable. Not intellectually abstracted to encompass a complex reality and understand it, but to distort it. Glaring example is represented by the naive (at best) abstraction of Christ embodied in the so-called "Christian values." With a desire for social reconciliation, interfaith ecumenism and the search of the ordinary with the gentle, some Christians decorate their souls and words so dear to current values \u200b\u200bsuch as solidarity and tolerance, converted into powerful abstractions that can accommodate within it many advantages such heinous abuse. At the same time forget the personal essence of giving and saving message to the source of Truth and Good Christ, and thus God Himself. It
an abstract God, as philosophically relevant, but it is an abstract Christ. Christ is the overwhelming reality of the history of mankind, and his person is a scandal manipulative unbearable abstraction. Christian values \u200b\u200bwithout
Christ
are fine yarn covered substantive religious atheism postmodern. Are tree without sap, ready to be cut and shaped to loggers like deicide. In deft move, the neoanticristos have become an adjective to Christ and God in a blank space, filled joint social action, environmentalism and pacifism. "Will come days when the Christian will seek to resolve the fact of salvation into a mere series of values," wrote
Soloviev in his work "Three Dialogues and the story of the antichrist." Prevention has more recently been regarded by Cardinal Giacomo Biffi, for whom is the work of Antichrist to reduce Christianity to an ideology rather than a personal encounter with Christ. Such neoanticristos consider a tale of
Immaculate Conception of the Son of Man. The Birth of Christ becomes for them an intolerable fact which is to suppress the celebration that Christmas time is reduced to mere chance to hang on the main streets of cities the word "peace" in six languages \u200b\u200band pleased a few days. The Crucifixion of the Messiah is an uncomfortable and bloody event, whose commemoration is at the moment, tolerated, while emphasizing its cultural dimension detriment of their religious reality. The Resurrection becomes in many cases, even among Catholic theologians called, in a metaphor. Like all historical facts, however, show the raw flesh of the Logos in constant provocation of the manipulative power of abstraction that is looking with his cunning appeal to values, separate from our Rescuer and quiet conscience. Catholic schools should be especially cautious before axiologies grateful relativistic manipulative abstraction, imposed by a State that is strangling the natural law to an official bulletin full of unjust laws and decrees obscene. They should not be complicit in the drowning allowing God's social reducing Christ to a mere moral teacher. Because Christian values \u200b\u200bwithout Christ are a sordid counterfeit Christianity, a monumental scam that deserves criticism and rejection. Only the person of Christ real, historical, human and divine, can be the Way, Truth and Life, and not its image distorted by the mirror of political correctness that avoids the radical demands of discipleship asks of us who bear the cross each day, and relies on abstractions that dilute the real message of Christ: to love God above all things and your neighbor as yourself, here and now. Source: Religion freedom
Author: P. Sergio A. Cordova 