The death knell of modernity

Do you hear the bell toll? Kneel down: the bell tolls for a dying world -- the world of liberal secular humanism. Nowhere is this more evident than in the Church. Have you ever wondered why liberals are always so insufferably bitter? The reason is not hard to guess. They are graying. Their ranks are thinning. The ideals they were brainwashed into accepting during their heyday no longer bear any hope of semblance to the present and future reality of the Church. Their hopes and dreams about seizing the helm of the Church and steering her off in new direction has been exposed for what it always was: pure fantasy.

Below are a couple of delightfully elevating quotations from a book by our friend, Peter Kreeft, Professor of Philosophy at Boston College (that's a Jesuit College, not a Catholic one, as he reminds us). In his 1988 book, Fundamentals of the Faith, Kreeft writes:

• "Secularism is dying. The modern world is dying. The new Roman Empire is dying. The new world order of secular, scientific humanism is dying.... The Church is no longer the embattled establishment trying desperately to hold on. The Church today is the revolutionaries, the guerillas, enlisting freedom fighters for her wild and wonderful cause. We orthodox Christians are the young today; the Modernists are the old. We are not trying to save a tired, old Church; we are trying to save a tired, old world and make it young with the youth of Christ's Church." (p. 23)
  
  
• "The modern mind ... does not know the theocentric God, for the modern mind is anthropocentric, not theocentric. God and the cosmos are thought of in relation to man and their effect in human life. Modernity prefers a 'realistic' religion. But this anthropocentrism is precisely the opposite of realism, i.e., living reality, conforming to reality. For God really is the center, not man. The medieval Christan mind was most realistic; the modern mind takes refuge in superstition and fantasy. Anthropocentrism is like Hamlet thinking that Shakespeare exists for him and is to be judged by him." (p. 119)