Freedom

We are truly tired of flowery rhetoric about freedom, self-actualization, and human rights. Not because these are undesirable realities or shamefully incomprehensible concepts. On the contrary, they are aspects of life that we seek to protect, enhance, and make possible for others to enjoy or attain. I am referring, rather, to the fact that, in the name of freedom, self-realization, and an elegant discourse on human rights, we have become subject to a sordid practical relativism, to living life any which way, to justifying ourselves to avoid the bitter pill of correction, of judgment, of sin. [Read More]