Cardinal Müller Reveals How They Are Killing Religion
What fundamentally "challenges" Christian theology is the "denial of the existence of a human nature," Cardinal Gerhard Müller told PillarCatholic.com (December 24).
Müller warns of "constructivism" which believes that men are a product of psychological and sociological processes and accidental conditions. He lists some wrong theories like:
• The soul is "not a substance but a bundle of associations" (Hume)
• The human species is "an accident of evolution" (Darwin)
• The individual is "a result of social conditions" (Marx)
• Behaviour is "an appearance of the unconscious on the surface of consciousness" (Freud).
The followers of these ideologies use them to "reassemble" a concept of human person according to their agendas (right of the strongest, classless society, pleasure principle) and thus create a “new man,” Müller explains. He calls this a "radical nihilism.”
The problem: A "paradise on earth" without and against God is "necessarily doomed to failure,"Müller explains, because "the world is God's creation and not the product of social engineers.“
He also stresses that “laicism" doesn't mean religious neutrality of the state, rather, "the silencing of religion in the public sphere.” Laicism is “a form of totalitarianism disguised as liberal, nationalist or communist.”
Picture: Gerhard Ludwig Müller, © Mazur, CC BY-NC-SA, #newsMjbhialiwz
Müller warns of "constructivism" which believes that men are a product of psychological and sociological processes and accidental conditions. He lists some wrong theories like:
• The soul is "not a substance but a bundle of associations" (Hume)
• The human species is "an accident of evolution" (Darwin)
• The individual is "a result of social conditions" (Marx)
• Behaviour is "an appearance of the unconscious on the surface of consciousness" (Freud).
The followers of these ideologies use them to "reassemble" a concept of human person according to their agendas (right of the strongest, classless society, pleasure principle) and thus create a “new man,” Müller explains. He calls this a "radical nihilism.”
The problem: A "paradise on earth" without and against God is "necessarily doomed to failure,"Müller explains, because "the world is God's creation and not the product of social engineers.“
He also stresses that “laicism" doesn't mean religious neutrality of the state, rather, "the silencing of religion in the public sphere.” Laicism is “a form of totalitarianism disguised as liberal, nationalist or communist.”
Picture: Gerhard Ludwig Müller, © Mazur, CC BY-NC-SA, #newsMjbhialiwz