Denials of Reality

As I move deeper into my communion with God, the stark contrast between that experience and what our culture focuses on and promotes becomes more profound. The material becomes the only reality for a growing number of people. The other reality, the unseen, gets pushed out of the picture. 

Secularists speak of freedom of choice, but it’s reduced to a choice of what is seen. They don’t want to acknowledge the unseen; it can’t be seen so it doesn’t exist. I suppose they would acknowledge emotions even if they can’t be seen, though I heard them posit the notion emotions are only neurological responses that release chemicals that cause the reactions we call emotion. Still, it’s a closed system, truly limiting.

One of my favorite observations from college is the idea of emergent reality vs. reductionism. Emergent reality expands from what we see and keeps going. Expand enough and you’ll get to the great void of nothingness. Reductionism takes you the opposite direction, and we find out there is more space between particles than there are particles, and you end up in the great void of nothingness.

Which brings us to this; the nothingness the secularists ignore is filled by God. They ignore it, but are in fact hostile to it. Their claim is the unseen can’t be known, nothing exists there, and attempt to take away our choice to connect to God. They also deny God exists in what we see, and promote materialism to justify their limited view of reality.

For them to promote this view, they move beyond science into the realm of Scientism. It’s their theology and philosophy. If it can’t be measured or quantified, it can’t exist. There's problem with that; they can’t see God, but have no scientific method to disprove His existence. They have to accept on Faith that God doesn’t exist. A paradox at least. Materialism and Scientism only acknowledge the tip of the iceberg of existence.

Science shows us the patterns, connections, rhymes and rhythms of reality. It can both expand and reduce, and truly show us God manifested in the natural order of things. 

 Fr Barron on Scientism and Science

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJosdqTRkgw

The political component of this is Secularists need to deny there’s a natural order to things, so we get the materialism of Marx and Keynes, Lenin and Galbraith vs. Jesus and St. Paul, Mises and Freidman.   The former have a cultural and economic belief system that denies the natural order, and the State decides political and economic realities; all based on the materialist notion that all that matters is “matter”, what we can see. They deny any mystery to life. Right now the practitioners of Scientism and Materialism have the upper hand. It's okay to quote and paraphrase Marx, but not Jesus.

We pray the God given natural order of things may again be recognized and Jesus being quoted and paraphrased becomes more okay that doing so with Marx.