Neumayr Agrees

A few days ago, I mentioned that gay 'marriage' may become the law of the land--but that those who rejoice at that thought have no cause to rejoice, because what the State gives the State may also take away.

George Neumayr makes a more general point:

Speaking to the US bishops on April 16, Pope Benedict XVI made the arresting comment that an “almost complete eclipse of an eschatological sense” marks “many of our traditionally Christian societies.”

...The profound and the pastoral are intrinsically linked, and the Pope’s call for a renewal of an “intellectual culture” that rests on a sound and comprehensive account of nature, man, and God, an account in which revelation reinforces and purifies reason while building upon it, is central to “charity.” As the grim chapters of history illustrate, false philosophy and theology have real, not abstract, consequences; errors about man’s ultimate destiny, while they may at first seem like harmless differences of “opinion,” show up immediately and destructively in politics and culture.

Deliberating on the good of man without consulting the God who determined it—in other words, the mode of public life that has held sway for decades—produces not human utopias but civilizational chaos, spiritual torpor and poisonous conceits: a concept of “freedom” that enslaves, “rights” that devour each other, and a rhetoric of “human dignity” that degrades.

Worth thinking about, folks. That 'natural law' stuff is not disposable. You will also note that the Pope did not call for 'all men to become Catholic,' but rather that there is a grave deficiency in thinking about eschatology.

Which, my friends, results in attempting to create Heaven on Earth.

That ain't going to happen.