SECULAR INTOLERANCE AND THE DICTATORSHIP OF RELATIVISM
01/08/07 18:32 Filed in:
Killing Religion & Loss of Religious
Freedom
The Bishops lodged an appeal to the High Court after the Broadcasting Standards Authority rejected their complaint against the so-called "Bloody Mary" episode which aired last year, claiming it breached standards of good taste and decency.
The High Court dismissed the appeal, saying the bishops' sense of outrage is not shared by the wider community. To add insult to injury the court ordered the Catholic Bishops to pay the Defendant broadcaster's costs amounting to $8,000.
Yet outrage apparently exists at a Pace University student, Stanislav Shmulevich who flushed the Koran in a University toilet after admittedly having a disagreement with some Muslim students. Shmulevich was arrested and charged with two felony counts of Criminal Mischief in the Fourth Degree as a Hate Crime.
It is inconceivable in the midst of today's pervasive militant atheism, relativism and cultural self-loathing that flushing Bibles would result in prosecution. In fact as Michele Malkin recently stated: if [Shmulevich] had submerged a Bible in urine or coated a Torah in cow dung and submitted it for a federal grant, he’d be sitting pretty–and facing rave New York Times editorials instead of time behind bars.”
Why don't those who condemn the Bishop's appeal as an attempt at censorship come to the aid of Shmulevich's right of "free expression"? Why is censorship in the name of "hate speech" approved in the case of the flushing of the Koran, while censorship is condemned when it involves the of promotion and public dissemination of hate toward Christianity and its dogmas. The Mother of God can be desecrated with impunity in a Christian Nation in the name of entertainment, while the Koran is afforded protection via the thought police.
It just goes to show that Secularism and its dogmas of tolerance, relativism and multiculturalism do not work. No man-made system of justice can ever truly be blind or "tolerant" toward all. Instead, whatever the fleeting philosophy of our day is-- that in turn dictates who is tolerated and who is not.
"How many winds of doctrine we have known in recent decades, how many ideological currents, how many ways of thinking… The small boat of thought of many Christians has often been tossed about by these waves – thrown from one extreme to the other: from Marxism to liberalism, even to libertinism; from collectivism to radical individualism; from atheism to a vague religious mysticism; from agnosticism to syncretism, and so forth. Every day new sects are created and what Saint Paul says about human trickery comes true, with cunning which tries to draw those into error (cf Eph 4, 14)....We are moving towards a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one’s own ego and one’s own desires." Cardinal Ratzinger, Sermon on Dictatorship of Relativism
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