Muller-Hill reports that one of the docile students became a professor of philosophy and director of a German TV station. 'This might be expected,' he wickedly comments. But another became a professor of physics, and a third a professor of botany. The honest Harter had to leave school and go to work in a factory. If in later life he was ever tempted to question any of the pronouncements of his more illustrious classmates, I am sure he was firmly told not to meddle in matters beyond his understanding.'" (pp. 156-157).
Do we honestly believe that this herd mentality is not to be found throughout our society and even in the Church? If so, we deceive ourselves. Pope Benedict XVI has warned of a liberal notion of conscience which is nothing less than a retreat from truth. In a keynote address of the Tenth Bishops' Workshop of the National Catholic Bioethics Center, on "Catholic Conscience: Foundation and Formation," he says that liberalism's idea of conscience is that: "Conscience does not open the way to the redemptive road to truth - which either does not exist or, if it does, is too demanding. "It is the faculty that dispenses with truth". "It thereby becomes the justification for subjectivity, which would not like to have itself called into question". "Similarly, it becomes the justification for social conformity". As mediating value between the different subjectivities, social conformity is intended to make living together possible. The obligation to seek the truth terminates, as do any doubts about the general inclination of society and what it has become accustomed to. Being convinced of oneself, as well as conforming to others, is sufficient. Man is reduced to his superficial conviction, and the less depth he has, the better for him."
Is there really any difference between Harter's classmates, who insisted that they could see a planet and its moons when such was impossible, and those who succumb to social conformity and insist that an unborn baby is not really a human being when all the scientific evidence suggests otherwise?
Where will radical subjectivism ultimately lead us? It was Romano Guardini [in his classic The Lord, p. 513] who reminded us that: "ONE DAY THE ANTICHRIST WILL COME: A HUMAN BEING WHO INTRODUCES AN ORDER OF THINGS IN WHICH REBELLION AGAINST GOD WILL ATTAIN ITS ULTIMATE POWER. HE WILL BE FILLED WITH ENLIGHTENMENT AND STRENGTH. THE ULTIMATE AIM OF ALL AIMS WILL BE TO PROVE THAT EXISTENCE WITOUT CHRIST IS POSSIBLE - NAY RATHER, THAT CHRIST IS THE ENEMY OF EXISTENCE, WHICH CAN BE FULLY REALIZED ONLY WHEN ALL CHRISTIAN VALUES HAVE BEEN DESTROYED. HIS ARGUMENTS WILL BE SO IMPRESSIVE, SUPPORTED BY MEANS OF SUCH TREMENDOUS POWER - VIOLENT AND DIPLOMATIC, MATERIAL AND INTELLECTUAL - THAT TO REJECT THEM WILL RESULT IN ALMOST INSURMOUNTABLE SCANDAL, AND EVERYONE WHOSE EYES ARE NOT OPENED BY GRACE WILL BE LOST. THEN IT WILL BE CLEAR WHAT THE CHRISTIAN ESSENCE REALLY IS: THAT WHICH STEMS NOT FROM THE WORLD, BUT FROM THE HEART OF GOD; VICTORY OF GRACE OVER THE WORLD; REDEMPTION OF THE WORLD, FOR HER TRUE ESSENCE IS NOT TO BE FOUND IN HERSELF, BUT IN GOD, FROM WHOM SHE HAS RECEIVED IT. WHEN GOD BECOMES ALL IN ALL, THE WORLD WILL FINALLY BURST INTO FLOWER."
Related reading here."For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. But the one who restrains is to do so only for the present, until he is removed from the scene. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord (Jesus) will kill with the breath of his mouth and render powerless by the manifestation of his coming, the one whose coming springs from the power of Satan in every mighty deed and in signs and wonders that lie, and in every wicked deceit for those who are perishing BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOT ACCEPTED THE LOVE OF TRUTH SO THAT THEY MAY BE SAVED. Therefore, God is sending them a deceiving power so that they may believe the lie, that all who have not believed the truth but have approved wrongdoing may be condemned." (2 Thessalonians 2: 7-12).
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