• Reflections by Craig Manners
  • Articles by Craig Manners
    • Cure for Death by Craig Manners
    • Perfect Justice, Perfect Mercy. Only God Could do This. By Craig Manners
    • Creation and Providence by Craig Manners
    • "Jesus' Movement of Mercy", by Craig Manners
    • All Things for Good by Craig Manners
    • A Complete Education by Craig Manners
    • "In a World of Lies we Need the Truth", by Craig Manners
    • Written on our Hearts by Craig Manners
    • "Wanted: Men who Understand the Times", by Craig Manners
    • Grieved by the Grievance Virus
    • Humans. Moral beings or not?
    • Soviet Era Mass Conversion Therapy Mind Control Set to Control the West by Craig Manners
    • "A Cultural Revolution", by Craig Manners
    • Why should a Christian believe the Bible is the word of God? By Craig Manners
    • While We Wait by Craig Manners
    • Authority By Craig Manners
    • Forgiveness by Craig Manners
    • David Livingstone - by Craig Manners
    • Acts of Providence. Craig Manners
    • What is Christianity all about? >
      • Christianity
  • Note Pad
  • To be Frank!
Craig Manners

"Dictatorship of relativism"

31/10/2015

0 Comments

 
I am not a Roman Catholic but I like Benedict XVI's comment as follows:
​
Today, a particularly insidious obstacle to the task of education is the massive presence in our society and culture of that relativism which, recognising nothing as definitive, leaves as the ultimate criterion only the self with its desires. And under the semblance of freedom it becomes a prison for each one, for it separates people from one another, locking each person into his or her own ego.[69]

He said that "a dictatorship of relativism"[70] was the core challenge facing the church and humanity. At the root of this problem, he said, is Kant's "self-limitation of reason". This, he said, is contradictory to the modern acclamation of science whose excellence is based on the power of reason to know the truth. He said that this self-amputation of reason leads to pathologies … [71] Benedict traced the failed revolutions and violent ideologies of the 20th century to a conversion of partial points of view into absolute guides. He said "Absolutizing what is not absolute but relative is called totalitarianism."[72]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XVI
0 Comments

Your comment will be posted after it is approved.


Leave a Reply.

    Craig Manners

    While much of what is written in this Blog may currently appear to be counter-cultural, given our post-truth culture, it is in no way counter-human beings. I am always for people no matter what they think, do, or may have done in their past. Where I put forward ideas or debate against certain ideology, behaviour, ideas, movements, politics, I remain very much on the side of the human beings even though I may be opposed to their worldview, behaviour and politics. Such opposition is generally out of concern for the ultimate consequences of such behaviour or ideas, especially for children.

Contact Craig Manners

Copyright Craig Manners © 2016 to 2025
  • Reflections by Craig Manners
  • Articles by Craig Manners
    • Cure for Death by Craig Manners
    • Perfect Justice, Perfect Mercy. Only God Could do This. By Craig Manners
    • Creation and Providence by Craig Manners
    • "Jesus' Movement of Mercy", by Craig Manners
    • All Things for Good by Craig Manners
    • A Complete Education by Craig Manners
    • "In a World of Lies we Need the Truth", by Craig Manners
    • Written on our Hearts by Craig Manners
    • "Wanted: Men who Understand the Times", by Craig Manners
    • Grieved by the Grievance Virus
    • Humans. Moral beings or not?
    • Soviet Era Mass Conversion Therapy Mind Control Set to Control the West by Craig Manners
    • "A Cultural Revolution", by Craig Manners
    • Why should a Christian believe the Bible is the word of God? By Craig Manners
    • While We Wait by Craig Manners
    • Authority By Craig Manners
    • Forgiveness by Craig Manners
    • David Livingstone - by Craig Manners
    • Acts of Providence. Craig Manners
    • What is Christianity all about? >
      • Christianity
  • Note Pad
  • To be Frank!