God is not dead...

...He isn't even tired!

Oh my...do I have a treat for you today!!

Tonight I read an outstanding commencement address that was given last week at Christendom College.  I wanted to stand up and applaud my computer screen.  I wanted to shout, "BRAVO!"  Here are a few highlights.  NOTE: I showed extreme self-control in not copying and pasting the entire document.  EXTREME SELF-CONTROL.  (Guess that Novena to the Holy Spirit last week worked!)

So what can I tell you? This is a time of crises. The economy is a mess, the culture is a mess, the government is out of control. And, in the last three years, Notre Dame lost 21 football games. But this is a great time for us to be here, especially you graduates of this superbly Catholic college. This is so because the remedy for the general meltdown today is found only in Christ and in the teachings of the Catholic Church. Let's talk bluntly about our situation and what you can do about it.

He went on to say there is Truth (with a capitol T) and His name is Jesus Christ.  Furthermore, he explained, there are three lies that are destroying our country and the souls of our friends, family and neighbors. 

1. The first lie is secularism: There is no God or he is unknowable.
2. The second lie of Satan is relativism. To say that all things are relative is absurd, for that statement itself must be relative. For more on this see the article and/or my blog post Are there Moral Absolutes?
3. The third lie you will confront is individualism. Social contract theories denied the social nature of man. They postulated a state of nature in which each person was an autonomous, isolated individual with no relation to others unless he consents. That is the origin of pro-choice as we know it today. Planned Parenthood didn't think it up. The mother has no relation to her unborn child unless she consents.

You are "free" to choose to put sand in the gas tank of your car. But you will no longer be free to drive your car because you have violated the truth of the nature of your car. You are "free" to choose to lie, to fornicate, etc., but you will diminish yourself because you have violated the truth of your nature. You have chosen the moral equivalent of putting sand in your gas tank. And there is one thing the autonomous individual of liberal mythology can never do. He can never put himself out of existence. He is going to live forever and will spend eternity someplace. Where, is up to him.

...and much, much more!  Consider this a teaser!  Take a few minutes and hop on over here to read the whole address.  You will NOT be disappointed!!

Special thanks to Leslie for bringing this article to my attention!