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Liberalism Is a Sin

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Liberalism Is a Sin is a powerful book written in Spain in 1886 and its content is more relevant today than when it first appeared. Although written from a Catholic perspective, this book is an eye-opener for catholics as well as for open-minded non-catholics. The moral depravity existing in our country today is a consequence of liberalism (pervasive in television, movies, literature, public and private morals) deeply enmeshed in our society. Liberalism asserts the sovereignty of the individual and social reason and enthrones Rationalism in the seat of authority. "It knows no dogma except the dogma of self-assertion." You will learn in this book that the non-logical thinking of liberalism which infects so many people today is the rebellion of the human intellect against God. This book contains the answers to the questions that people today are almost universally asking, "What has happened to our society? What is wrong?" I highly recommend this book..

Before reading this book, I was neoconservative (often called a "classical" liberal). That is to say, I accepted the very basic principles of Liberalism while rejecting some of the more radical elements established during the 20th century. After reading this book, however, I can now say that I am a "classical" conservative. Don Sarda reveals in an easily understood manner the errors of Liberalism, especially how even the smallest amount of it is poisonous. Neoconservatism is just the first step in the process that produces the philosophies of communism, radical feminism, and other errors of "modern" society. Liberalism is a Sin articulates the idea of a Catholic state well, and explains how human reason is not and should not be the sole arbiter of what becomes law or what opinions we should hold. Though it was written well over 100 years ago, everyone, especially conservatives, should make it one of the books at the top of his or her to-read list- if only to see what 19th century conservative theory was like.

I can hardly tell you how grateful I am to my friend Mario because recommended this superb book to me. I'm a traditionalist Catholic who has always seemed theologically ultraconservative. But Fr. Slavany has proved that liberalism had tained my thought about charity, i.e., Christian love. That love requires Catholics to denounce heresy and sometimes even heretics. Blunt denunciation can be charitable becaue it protects people from a heresies and from the proponent of heresies. If it hadn't been for Father Salvany, I probably would have kept believing my misconception about charity.

Today, when false ecumenism and other evils fool Catholics into thinking that they ought to be too conciliatory and to believe that non-Catholics have a God-given right to believe heresies, Father Salvany's book is a much-needed cure for liberal opinions.

The current attack of liberalism on Catholicism, religion in general and, in fact, any sort of particularism of any kind, which denies the absolute "right" of the individual to satisfaction of emotional desires no matter what they are, can be traced to its beginnings in the crude and excessive European rationalism of the 18th. & 19th. centuries. This book documents the essentially destructive nature of liberalism on civilized society, religious or not, and is an important warning from the past about the very trends being embraced in Western civilization today. Important for anyone who would rescue objective truth, religious or secular, from the irrational assertions and accusations (i.e. anyone who disagrees is a "bigot")of liberal incoherence.

This is a great book with wonderful insights. It is all the more impressive that it is over a hundred years old. They should have had a copy of this at Vatican II. The cover alone is worth the price and would make a great poster.

This book is a warning and condemnation of what today can be described as religious pluralism and indifferntism. The word used at the time of the writing of this book for that is "liberalism," and hence this book is not about the political ideology per se. This is one of those books that will get you pumped up and motivated to be much more serious about your faith. Words and phrases are not sugar-coated, and a spade is called a spade. Though published around 1900, the book is extremely applicable today. It has about 30 short chapters, each answering and looking at different aspects of liberalism, such as what it is, how to recognize it, what to do about it, etc. It is quite sobering to read this book, knowing that it was published so long ago, and read the harsh words the author has to say about this sin of sins, realizing how much worse things have gotten and how deeply liberalism has been ingrained into our culture.

The author points out all the different faces of liberalism, including the worst kind, the so-called Catholic liberal. This is the most dangerous because he acts as a wolf in sheep's clothing, masquerading as a Catholic concerned about the Faith. Being so much a part of a culture where liberalism is taken for granted, it is easy for a Catholic to fall victim to subtle liberal doctrines, even unconscionably, and this book gives very good advice and reminders to avoid such thinking and actions.

Of the many books I buy on Amazon, this is my first review I would like to offer. While supplanting reading the New Testament with the Saints' original writings of their own hard road with Christ; I have been realizing considerable personal confusion from the tension, 'talk' and opinions regarding the state of the Church and salvation. I sensed I was being drawn from the clear commands from Christ in the New Testament, to the gray areas of `talk' and opinion in Catholic newspapers, laymen, etc. I now see through this wonderful book that it is liberalism clouding the original commands from Christ. `Liberalism is a sin' is divinely inspired. I highly desire not to walk myself right into hell and this book has taught me the essence of my confusion: listening to anyone but Christ. To embrace liberalism is sadly grasping yourself as an enemy and then shooting yourself in the head. A must read to clarify the dangerous effects we have on each other. Nancy, Sacramento

The author neither understands "liberalism" nor Catholicism. The author apparently views "liberism" as an ahistorical event. He places the responsibility for the society's woes on it. Never paying attention to the fact the world is not governed by "liberal" political thought the author nonetheless can't wait to blame it for almost every imaginable problem extant or developing. I am left to assume the author does not value the United States, its freedoms, democracy, and gifts of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. All direct descendents of "liberalism" I get the uneast feeling that if this were 1776 the author would be touting the philosophy of King George; the anti-thesis of liberalism. I have impression he is afraid of the very freedom the United States holds out as an example to the world.

The Pre-Vatican II Church was the New Idea Church of Last few Hundred Years. Attempts to "Scare People with Threats of Hell", As Happenned in My Catholic High School years, 1950's. Vatican II Has Replaced Helliish Scaring with the 2,000 Year Tradition of The Lord/God IS LOVE. And Many More > The Author of The Misrepresenting "EWTN, Gone Wrong" Book and The Commentator Are Both Wrong, on Several Key Points > "The Hybrid" Vatican II Mass RETURNED The Mass to The Way it was in the First 2 Centuries!! See "MASS OF THE EARLY CHRISTIANS", Aquilina. The Tridentine Latin Mass was the NEW IDEAS Mass of the 1500's, With Zero Congregation Participation, as Early Masses Had, as we Have Today. Ditto Many Other "Modernist" Complaints Against EWTN and Vatican II. Like Returning The Awesome, MOST Traditional Easter VIGIL Mass, Which Was THE Mass of THE YEAR, In Earlier Church. And Vatican II Returned Church to Mozart Masses With Chamber Orchestra, As was Done in Mozart/Bach's Time, Instead of Modernist Idea of ORGAN Being Only Suitable Church Instrument. And MANY MORE ERRORS, Like Anyone Committing Suicide BANNED from Catholic Funeral. Vatican II Added that Suicides are likely "Not of Right Mind", And Entitled to Full Catholic Funeral. MANY MANY MORE. Vatican II Added that ONLY OUR LORD Decides Salvation, Heaven. Pre-Vatican II Suggestion that Only Catholics can go to Heaven was as Misleading as Fundies who Teach that All Catholics going to hell!!!!!!!!!!!!!