2. HOW TO REVIVE THE
NOTION OF GOOD AND EVIL
The
notion of good and evil can be revived in various ways, including:
· Avoiding all
formulations that smack of secularist or interdenominational morality, because
secularism and interdenominationalism logically lead to amorality.
· Opportunely
pointing out that God has the right to be obeyed and that, therefore, His
Commandments are true laws, which we ought to observe in the spirit ofobedience
and not simply because they please us.
· Emphasizing that the
law of God is intrinsically good and according to the order of the universe, in
which the perfection of the Creator is mirrored. For this reason, it should not
only be obeyed, but loved; and evil should not only be shunned, but hated.
· Spreading the
notion of a reward and of a chastisement after death.
· Favoring social
customs and laws in which uprightness is honored and wickedness suffers public
sanctions.
· Favoring customs
and laws meant to prevent proximate occasions of sin and even those conditions
that, having the mere appearance of evil, may be harmful to public morality.
· Insisting on the
effects of Original Sin in man, his frailty, the fruitfulness of the Redemption
by Our Lord Jesus Christ, and the need for grace, prayer, and vigilance in
order for man to persevere.
· Making use of every
opportunity to indicate the mission of the Church as the teacher of virtue, the
fountain of grace, and the irreconcilable enemy of error and sin.
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