I read in a homily by Fr. Robert Barron (in his book,
Vibrant Paradoxes) that for the first time ever agnostics and atheists
outnumbered Christians and Jews in the freshman class at Harvard. Harvard University was originally founded for
religious purposes, but it appears the upcoming self-proclaimed American
aristocracy doesn’t consider God as a part of their life --- or any life.
This, they say in their self-proclaimed freedom to say and
do anything, they know. For them freedom
has emerged as their ultimate good and their object of worship. And in their freedom they can do and say as
they wish, defining their existence to be what they want it to be, even beyond
any scientific evidence: I am a man
because I say I am, or I am a woman because I say I am. In a way, moving beyond what the scientific
method can prove, these people have moved into the realm of what they deny ---
the spiritual. And in this realm they
believe whatever they say or think is truth IS truth.
Mankind has always had a word for those who act and talk
like this in the spiritual realm: they
are called gods.
Fr. Barron notes that “If there is no God (other than
ourselves) then our lives do indeed belong to us, and (they) have no meaning or
transcendent purpose.” Or value. And so assisted suicide, or the killing of
those who are without the mental or physical standard we’ve set --- in “truth”
--- makes perfect sense, and we are free to do it.
“The incoming freshman class at Harvard is a disturbing omen
indeed,” says Fr. Barron.
It’s so sad that after all these years it appears we still
yearn for the Garden of Eden, where we think we’ve gained the knowledge of good
and evil, without listening to the Word of God.
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