Consider for a moment how many aspects of modern life you’ve never been invited to question. Government-run schools that form children’s minds before their parents have finished forming their character. Civil marriage administered by the state as though the family were a creature of bureaucratic convenience rather than a divine institution. A so-called separation of Church and state that presents itself as a neutral arrangement rather than what it actually is: a deliberate subordination of the sacred to the secular. Morality detached from religion. A culture that systematically devalues family life in exchange for material success. These are not ancient features of the human condition. They are recent innovations, most of them less than two centuries old. Yet they have been incorporated so thoroughly into daily life that suggesting an alternative produces the same reaction as suggesting the Earth might be flat. The astonishment is not that people disagree with these arrangements. The astonishment is that the question of whether they are correct almost never arises at all.

Originally published in Integrity Magazine. Read original article

Original Tags: Catholic Social Teaching, Church History, Culture, Counter-Revolution, Frank Wright, Liberalism, Political Philosophy