It seems to me that in many ways, the Church and those who give witness to her teachings on important issues such as abortion, euthanasia, the dignity of marriage as the union of a man and a woman, the injustice of war, and so many other matters, they are fighting spiritual blindness that is prevalent on our society.
So many people who are stridently pro-choice, or who want to enshrine in law same-sex “marriage” seem completely unable to see the truth when it is presented to them. They actually cannot see it in contrast to being unwilling.
Why the spiritual blindness?
There is only one thing I know of that blinds someone spiritually, and that is sin. Please don’t get upset with me right away now. I am not suggesting that all those people are outright sinners doomed to damnation. No. What I am thinking though is they are so surrounded by sin that they have become blinded.
This is why it is so important to expose yourself to the truth and surround yourself with goodness. That is why it is so important to educate our children in how to discern truth from fallacy, goodness from pleasure, love from self-indulgence, light from darkness. That is why it is so important that everyone – in some fundamental way – be able to discern good from evil.
Our world, even in its sincere efforts to secure justice and right for others, is surrounded not by truth, but by falseness; not by light but by darkness; not by love but by self-concern. Because of this, much of our world is spiritually blinded by sin.
Sin is what blinds us. It renders us unable to recognize God.
Let us surround ourselves by that which is true, that which is truly human, that which brings light into our lives.
Let us surround ourselves by God’s truth.
