“Too many Christians have decided that the world is bad …” - Aleteia

​...a world hungering for good

“I think too many Christians have decided that the world is bad … Well, it’s hard to convert people if that’s your stance,” says Father Benedict. “It’s a lot easier to help people to see their own goodness and then bring them in than to point out how bad they are and bring them in.”
The virtues of our times should be low-hanging fruit for Christians. Consider:

• Today, people care a lot about serving the weak and marginalized. Surely Christian principles about the infinite dignity of every human being can find good soil here.
• Today’s secularists want to unite the whole world, regardless of race or economic status. There is one place that actually already does this: The Catholic Church. Let’s propose it.
• People hunger for beauty — and the culture works hard to deliver it in every media imaginable. Even our video games are beautiful. Let’s re-introduce people to the source of the unlimited beauty they hunger for.

And why not, instead of spelling out how formidable the intellectual climate is, start reminding ourselves how weak it is?

• Secularism is a culture of death that refuses to reproduce. That means self-destruction.
• Secularism is built on science — but it refuses to recognize the humanity of the unborn or the chromosomal facts of life. It has turned against science. It is undermining its own foundations.
• Secularism prides itself on tolerance and free speech, but increasingly rejects both in favor of a hyper-sensitive new censorship based on political correctness. This fails its own standards.

Secularism is a kingdom divided against itself.....  READ  THE FULL ARTICLE