© 2021 Victor R. Claveau, MJ
The terms conservative, moderate, liberal, are heard almost daily to describe a particular person’s stand on such social issues as pornography, homosexuality, or abortion. For the majority of Americans, truth is no longer considered absolute; it is now subjective, relative, or situational.
An action is either right or wrong, not according to man’s law, but according to God’s law as God is truth, and truth is absolute. Wherever it is found, Liberalism in its practical application is systematic warfare against truth. Whether it calls itself liberty or government, or the state, or humanity, or reason, its fundamental characteristic is an uncompromising opposition to truth.
Liberalism arrives at the conclusion that one creed is as good as another and attempts to cloak this conclusion under the appearance of “freedom of conscience.” The individual interprets as he pleases, rejecting or accepting what he chooses. If one creed is as acceptable as another, then no creed is also acceptable. Religious belief or unbelief has come to be mere matters of opinion. This is the heresy that constantly bombards us, flooding our current literature and our media. It is against this that we have to be always on guard, more so today as it insidiously attacks us on the grounds of a false charity or a false liberty.
Religion is the bond which unites us to God. Infidelity breaks the bond which binds men to God and seeks to build a human society founded on the principle of man’s independence. In the assumption of the absolute sovereignty of the individual, that is, his entire independence from God, we find the common source of all evil. Secularization results when Rationalism is made the measure and sum of all truth. This could also be defined as social atheism.
Liberalism, whether secular or religious, is a serious sin. In the doctrinal order, it is heresy and consequently a sin against faith. In the practical order, it is a sin against the Commandments of God for it virtually transgresses all the Commandments. Liberalism is a heresy because it is the formal and obstinate denial of all Christian dogmas in general. It sets aside dogma and replaces it with opinion. Consequently, it denies every doctrine in particular. If we were to examine all the doctrines of Judeo-Christianity, which within the range of liberalism have been denied, we would find every dogma rejected in one way or another. Liberalism denies the absolute jurisdiction of God over individuals and over society. Liberalism sets itself up as the measure and rule of faith and so shuts out revelation altogether. It denies everything which itself does not proclaim. It negates everything it does not affirm. Liberalism is the radical and universal denial of all divine truth and is the supreme rebellion against the authority of God. With the Evil One, its maxim is: “I will not serve.”
Liberalism is the rebellion against God in thought or deed, the elevation of the creature in the place of the creator.