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PERT/3, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1943.
NO. 3,062.
SEVENTIETH YEAR.
In this war only two world orders are at stake
the Secularist and the Christian One sense in which the Allies defend Christianity although they do not live it Mgr. Fulton Sheen Reviews
Chief Philosophies of the Day it
anti-Semitic and anti -democratic. These concepts were to some extent dominant in Prussia before they became uniFor example, all fied under Hitler. three ideas were found in Prussia's philosophers, like Fichte, who prostituted God into a national deity, taught the Jew could never be a German and affirmed the old Machiavellian thesis that the strength of a State makes tight: and in a Hegel, whose anti Christianity identified God with the Prussian State. foretold a future chosThe anti-Christian totalitarian world en race to replace the Jews, and who view exists in four forms: spawned an anti -democratic German, 1. An historical form as a revival of the imperial traditions of the ancient Karl Marx, who founded Communism. Roman Empire, which is Fascism; 2, These totalitarian systems are intrinsiAn anthropological form, as the glori- cally wicked. The second world view is the nonfication of the Nordic race, which is Nazism; 3. A biological form as the Christian tradition of Western civilisaidentification of God with a dynastic tion for the last few hundred years. house, which is Japanese Imperialism. It might be described as a philosophy of life which seeks to preserve civili4. A sociological form, as the glorification of class struggle and the dictator- sation on a non -religious basis. It is On the contrary, ship of the proletariat, which is Com- not anti-Christian. it believes that Christianity is good for munism. I make the same distinction be- the individual, but it should not between Russia and Communism that come the fabric of a political, social and Stalin made between Germany and economic structure. It believes in the Nazism. Stalin said he was not fight- great realities such as the value of a ing against Germany, but against Naz- man, democracy, freedom of the press, ism. In like manner, we are fighting conscience, speech and the like, but, for Russia, but we are not and we quite independently of their roots in God's natural law and the Christian must not ever fight for Communism. None of these forms of totalitarian- tradition. Alongside these great realities which ism is a State in the political sense of the term; rather they are philosophies are essentials of a decent world view, of life working through a party which there are a number of assumptions in They our Western civilisation which are is a substitute for the State. all invest primitive realities of class, more pagan than Christian, and which have been definitely proved false. race, nation and blood with a divine significance. In a certain sense they Among them are: first, the idea that mark the return to the world of that man is naturally good and progressive, and, thanks to great cosmic floods of which died with the advent of Chrisevolution, is sweeping onwards and uptianity, namely, polytheism. wards to a world where there will be no war but an everlasting plenty. SecCommunism Founded. ond, relativism in morals, namely, there To understand the essence of the totalitarian world view, consider it in is no distinction between right and its Nazi form. It is anti-Christian, wrong. good and evil: it all depends
There are only three ideologies or world views or philosophies of life, involved in the present cataclysm: 1. The anti-Christian totalitarian world view; 2. The present non-Christian or secularist world view of the Western world; 3, The Christian world view.
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tian principles of justice and morality." upon your point of view. May I add here that if this were true, how could Hitler be wrong, and we be right? Third, economic freedom means the right to do whatever von please with your property, or to do whatever you please with your labour organisations without regard for the common good of all. Fourth, that man is nothing but a highly developed animal, and has no other destiny than within the historical perspective of space and time. Fifth, since the purpose of living is to get the maximum of pleasure out of life, it follows that love is devoid of responsibilities and marriage contracts are no longer sacred and inviolable.
The New Christian Order. Thus far we have indicated two world orders, one anti-Christian and the There yet reother non-Christian. mains a Christian order, which must be re-established if the world is ever to have peace with justice. The characteristic note of this new Christian order to which all Jews, Protestants, and Catholics can agree is that it is founded
on the moral principles of the natural law. And by the natural law is not meant the physical law of the universe, nor the habits of primitive people, but the reflection of the eternal reason of God. In national and domestic life, this
Christian order would recognise such principles as these: every human being in the world is entitled to respect as a
creature with an immortal destiny: there can be no true social life unless the family is respected as the essential unit of society. Human welfare must rank higher than economic power. The dignity of man is attacked every time he is thrown into unemployment through no fault of his own, or whenever he has to sell his labour for less than a just wage. All such principles flow from the initial one which totalitarianism has denied, namely, full respect for the dignity of a person. And fundamentally, there is only one reason why every person and every family should be respected, namely, because we are all children of God and (Continued on Back Cover.)
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