From the time the Catholic Church established the university system in the so-called Dark Ages, when scientific method was devised at the Cathedral School at Chartres, a lively exchange of ideas in science, philosophy, theology, law, and the arts has been the fuel to advance Western Civilization. Built on the best of Roman and Greek civilizations, she made course corrections that ultimately draw on the promise of redemption God gave our first parents. Adam and Eve paid the price for their own failure to exercise their authority over creation given to humanity made in His image and likeness. Cains and Abels have contested in the search for truth ever since. No human endeavor or institution is now or ever has been exempt from this struggle between good and evil. Our job is to do something about it as good stewards, not mockers and penalizers.
Today, Academia’s gift to civilization is not lively discourse in an honest quest for truth, but phony, stilted diversity and political correctness, which I call “the manifestation of the spirit of antichrist.” Academia has a disdain for faith, reason, and a quest for the innocence Jesus taught was the key to the kingdom. They have opted for the sewer of perversion and debt on their students whose qualifications for honest endeavor in the free market are more than seriously compromised.
The absent-minded professor, who is deep in contemplation in his search for truth, was always eager to share his knowledge with his students. These are few and far between today. Having eschewed faith and reason, the modern arrogant academic is more likely to steal his students’ thoughts and perpetrate lies over consideration of multiple sources of information that lead to honest conclusions.
Dr. Thomas Woods’ book “How the Catholic Church Built Civilization” provides some major course corrections dealing with the current persecution of faith and reason by forces in high places as well as the pit of hell. With a new Pope on the horizon, maybe its time to see what it means to all of us and why “progressives” hate believers so – whether Catholic or not.
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As an educator who likes to look at all sides of an issue. I am appalled at what some of our students think about our government and our founding fathers. I do not teach political science or government but I try and help my students become true “critical thinkers”. I challenge their beliefs and encourage them to document what they espouse. Often, not all the time, but often enough I will have a student come back and say, is this true. I work very hard to make sure that student understand what they believe and why they believe it. So often what I hear from them is the main stream media propaganda and not well thought out ideas created from their own thoughts and minds. This seems to be very rare in higher education even from some of the faculty.
Even accepting what you say is true regarding the role of the Catholic Church regarding enlightenment and lively discourse, it is also responsible for the adulteration of pure Christian faith through the attempt to “blend” many pagan practices into Christian worship (things like Sunday worship instead of the traditional Sabboth – Sunday – Sun God – get it; Easter being the day of celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ – Easter – God of Fertility – eggs and rabbits – fertility – get it). These have succeeded in watering down the purity of the church and in many cases, diluted the faith and made it more difficult to bring people to Jesus because they see the inconsistencies of Christmas Trees and decorations that harken back to the pagan groves of the Old Testament while Christians loudly condemn paganism in every other instance (but think these various practices are perfectly OK because it’s always been that way. As a Christian, that disturbs me.