By Martin Chouinard
2018 SBC Conference
Martin argues that traditional Catholics must actively work to preserve and transmit Western culture as a means of evangelization. He posits that true culture's purpose is to cultivate the "soil" of the mind, making it receptive to the seed of faith, and that this culture is founded on key ideas like the certainty of truth, the inherent meaning of life, and objective morality. He traces the history of Western civilization from Greco-Roman and Hebrew roots through its preservation in monasteries and its fracturing during the Protestant Reformation. He suggests practical actions like storytelling, reading good books, and studying rhetoric to counteract modern nihilism and relativism. Ultimately, he calls for a hopeful, "heroic" effort to rebuild culture, reminding the audience that their mission is not a lost cause but a divine mandate to bring order and truth back to the world.
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