A Man for This Season

You remember how your mother used to say "Just Because Everyone is Jumping Off a Cliff, that doesn't mean you should"? Just because everyone says its true or good doesn't mean that it is. We used to know that. We used to know it because most of us agreed what was good and true based on principles beyond ourselves, those so called "higher principles" of God and Objective First Things. But from time to time humanity strays, wildly, from the good and the true. It happened in the time of St. Thomas More. A great and mighty King, Henry VIII, wanted something very badly. He wanted to divorce one perfectly good wife and get another so that he could have a male heir. He simply declared himself the Head of the Church in England and thus separated himself and the entire country from the Catholic Church. And everyone was expected to go along to get along. Well, in this case, in order to keep their heads. Most did. Thomas More was one who did not. We are facing a similar struggle hundreds of years past the 16th Century. Some powerful people are purveying relativistic truths, and for now, the consequence is belittlement and shunning to deny them. But we are just as capable of taking heads off as were the servants of Henry VIII. And we are trending that way. We need a Thomas More. We need to listen to his keen understanding of human nature, and stand against its base tendencies before in this modern society lose our very souls.