A civilization inspired by a consumerist, anti-birth mentality is not and cannot ever be a civilization of love.
To live without faith, without a patrimony to defend, without a steady struggle for truth – that is not living, but existing.
“If you believe what you like in the Gospels, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.”
For many people today, practical atheism is the normal rule of life...If this attitude becomes a general existential position, then freedom no longer has any standards, then everyting is possible and permissible.
No one is forced to be a Christian. But no one should be forced to live according to the "new religion" as though it alone were definitive and obligatory for all mankind.
It has been a bad week for Christianity - make that a bad day - in these pitiful Bergoglian times.
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