Chapter 3. Our Lord Jesus Christ and Liberalism.

The truth will make you free.

Our Lord Jesus Christ.

After having explained that liberalism is a revolt of man against the natural order as conceived

by the Creator, leading to the individualistic, egalitarian, and concentration camp-like

city, it remains for me to show you how liberalism also grapples with the

supernatural order, which is the plan of redemption. That is to say, how liberalism has as its

final purpose to destroy the reign of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the life of the individual

and in society. With regard to the supernatural

order, liberalism proclaims two new kinds of independence which I will now explain.

From Father Roussel's Liberalism and Catholicism. Number one. The independence of reason and science from the faith. This is

rationalism, by which the reason becomes the sovereign judge and measure of truth, and considers

itself to be self-sufficient, rejecting any exterior domination.

This is what is called rationalism.

Liberalism wishes to free reason from the faith, which imposes dogmas on us, formulated in a

definitive way, to which the intellect has to submit itself. The simple

hypothesis that certain truths can go beyond the capacities of reason is inadmissible. Dogmas, therefore,

must be constantly resubmitted to the test of reason and science because of scientific progress.

The miracles of Jesus Christ, the supernatural elements in the lives of the saints,

have to be reinterpreted, demythologized. It will be necessary to carefully distinguish

between the Christ of faith, a construction of the faith of the

apostles, and of the primitive communities, and the Christ of history, who was only a mere man.

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