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Is modern secular liberalism. \u00a0It turns the biblical model of reality on its head, calls good evil and evil good, and challenges the faith at its most fundamental levels. \u00a0Ross Douthat rightly pointed out that no Western theistic religion has attempted to compromise with this and come out ahead. \u00a0That\u2019s because you can\u2019t bake kosher ham. \u00a0You just can\u2019t. \u00a0A viewpoint that assumes humans are but mere animals who invented religion as a way to cope, and who will either all go to some other dimension or rot in the ground, can\u2019t really be compromised with. \u00a0<\/div>\n
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Neither, it should be clear, can many of the assumptions that arise from this. \u00a0The main assumption is that I am pretty much a superstar of my own story, and nothing has a right to supersede that, nor do I owe anything to anyone but for my choosing. \u00a0Therefore nothing I want or want to do should be hindered by anything, since nothing is greater than me. \u00a0Or at least nothing that matters.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Square peg. Round hole. Despite the rather dismal track record of this view \u2013 the civilization that gave birth to it is dying, and in only a century of being driven by its ideals we\u2019ve had more death and destruction than \u00a0at any time in history \u2013 despite all of this, compromise will be attempted. \u00a0And right now, this is no more apparent than in the Church\u2019s attempts to walk that fine line between 2000 years of pretty clear traditional teachings, and the latest, hippest by this new phenomenon that will only be content once challengers to its assumptions have been eradicated from the human story. \u00a0<\/div>\n
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So all is buzzing about how the Church seeks to compromise with the divorce culture<\/a>, one of the more recent benefits of this new ideal. \u00a0Of course the whole Annulment process and the Church\u2019s dance with tradition vs. modernity has been one of the more convoluted dramas in Western religion over the last few decades. \u00a0And yet, as many see that compromising with the Culture of Me and its love for no fault divorce is a fool\u2019s hope, many in the Church apparently feel taking a step toward compromise will accomplish something good.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Granted, this is a complex issue, and I won\u2019t pretend to be an expert who should be listened to about the details. \u00a0I can, however, notice the trends. \u00a0And right now, the trend is a Church trying desperately to keep one foot, however precariously, in the side of Tradition, while hoping that by somehow accepting at least some presumptions of the secular Left, it will appeal to a new generation without being changed beyond recognition by that generation. \u00a0If it can do this, it will be a miracle. \u00a0It will also be a first.\n
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