Liberty, the God That Failed: Policing the Sacred and Constructing the Myths of the Secular State, from Locke to Obama

What has gone wrong with the grand American experiment in "ordered liberty"? The progressive answer is that America has failed to live up to its full promise of inclusiveness and equality--likely the result of corporate greed and white male ruling elites. The mainstream conservative or libertarian's reply points to the Warren Court, the 1960's, or a loss of Constitutional rectitude. Christopher Ferrara, in Liberty, the God That Failed, offers an entirely different answer. In a counter-narrative of unique power and scope, he unmasks the order promised as a sham; the liberty guaranteed, a chimera. In his telling, the false god of a new political order--Liberty--was born in thought long before America's founding, and gained increasing devotion as it slowly amassed power during the first century of the nation's existence. Today it reveals its full might, as we bear the weight of its oppressive decrees, and experience the emptiness of the secular order it imposes upon us. Ferrara destroys multiple myths constructed by the secular state with a relentless uncovering of truths hidden by both liberal and conservative/libertarian accounts of what has gone wrong. In this brilliant retelling of American history and political life, the author asks us to open our eyes to harsh realities, but also to the possibilities for a rightly ordered society and the true liberty that can still be ours.

History

Ferrara, Christopher A.

Americas

Angelico Press

Empty seminaries, shuttered parishes, crisis-level priest shortages, altar girls, trendy "liturgies" -- not to mention worldwide homosexual clergy scandals, loss of faith, and the exodus of Catholics from the Church. What has happened to the Catholic Church since 1965? Why did the Church suddenly seem to lose her very identity after the Second Vatican Council? Where is the much-vaunted conciliar "springtime"? 
In this book, Christopher A. Ferrara, Esq., and Dr. Thomas Woods cut through the confusion and the doubletalk and get to the heart of the matter: it was not nameless, faceless "liberals" but the Council itself and decisions by the Vatican and the conciliar Popes that brought on the current unparalleled ecclesial crisis. While the Church still stands, her teachings are still there and her traditional Latin Mass is still alive, Catholics are now forced to look hard in order to find these things. They must look behind a great facade of novelty and failed experimentation imposed upon the Church in the name of Vatican II -- a facade that separates Catholics from their own God-given patrimony: 2000 years of traditional teaching, liturgy, and spirituality. 
In order to restore the Church to vigor, millions of so-called "traditional" Catholics are abandoning the feeble neo-Catholicism that has arisen over the past forty years and seeking a return to the virile Catholicism of the perennial Church. 
This book also refutes, with devastating logic and precision, all the common "neo-Catholic" objections to the traditionalist position, while confounding all the usual "neo-Catholic" excuses for the ruinous mistakes of judgment by Church authorities that have reduced the Church to her current condition. 
The great facade is already crumbling and beginning to fall. This book exposes its flimsy footings and gives it a powerful shove.

The Great Facade

Religion & Spirituality

Woods, Thomas A.

Christian Books & Bibles

Remnant Pr

La Iglesia y el liberalismo: ¿Es cómplice la enseñanza social católica con la Escuela Austriaca?

Business & Money

MARÍN ARRIBAS, DANIEL

Economics

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