What is the biggest problem facing today?

[Socrates]

[quote name='son_of_angels' date='Aug 22 2005, 01:15 AM']I think it will be technology.  Over time we will see that what has made us so "happy" has really been the means for Satan to accomplish his best work (the Holocaust, etc.)

Then again, I am writing on the Internet....so now I've confused myself.
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Technology is morally neutral - it is a tool which can be used for good or evil. Though with fallen creatures, the temptation to use it for evil is very strong. However, technology is a tool, not the root of evil. Evil can exist without technology.

[Apathy]

I would like to thank you all for your votes. Each time someone voted for me, I got a slap in back of the head and an "I told you so" from GrandPa. thanks alot! I don't get it, how can not doing anything be wrong? Wait, coming to think of it, don't bother giving me an awnser, I probably won't listen anyways.

My twin brother Sloth got no votes, now he feels left out and I don't care. At least he did not get a slap or two in the head.

And to make things worse, since so many of you rocket scientists picked the wheater channel, GrandPa says I am not to watch it for a month. Once again, thanks alot.

Been flipping through channels ever since, until I finally fell on some political debate channel. Now there's something I can fall asleep to.

[CanCath]

I voted Other.... I think PRIDE is the biggest problem in the world.

[Laudate_Dominum]

[quote name='CanCath' date='Aug 23 2005, 08:08 AM']I voted Other.... I think PRIDE is the biggest problem in the world.
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I would still hold to lies, since pride is rooted in a kind of interior assent to a lie regarding one's status in being. Humility is truth.

But maybe I'm just bantering a bit.

[zwergel88]

Hard question to answer, but I'm fairly sure that it's not the Weather Channel. That weather on the 8's is really something else.

[Apathy]

[quote name='zwergel88' date='Aug 23 2005, 03:22 PM']Hard question to answer, but I'm fairly sure that it's not the Weather Channel.  That weather on the 8's is really something else.
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Thank you zwergel88, would you mind PMing my GrandPa and let him know your opinion. If you do mind, oh well. He'll come around sometime, I think, maybe? Whatever.

[White Knight]

Apathy, welcome to the forums. God Bless You, Pax Christi.

[Socrates]

[quote name='White Knight' date='Sep 8 2005, 03:12 AM']Apathy, welcome to the forums. God Bless You, Pax Christi.
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Do we really want to welcome apathy into the phorums???

[argent_paladin]

I think it is the heresy of modernism. But I put down theology of liberalism because it is close enough.

[Apathy]

Whatever, those two guys look like they're having way too much fun.

[mariahLVzJP2]

i agree with G.K. Chesterton on the matter.

[kafka]

that darn Weather Channel,
always plotting for the evil take over . . .

[cathoholic_anonymous]

I voted 'other'.

Pride.

[Norseman82]

Women not wearing veils.

[Anomaly]

[quote name='jasJis' post='690658' date='Aug 19 2005, 03:59 PM']Apathy, without a doubt. We can't fix the big problems without little steps. Apathy alone prevents taking the first step, or recognizing the problem, or being intellectually honest, etc.

Apathy is death.[/quote]I couldn't have said it better myself. You rock!

[stbernardLT]

I think people being desensitized to sin.(especially catholics) This mostly stems from relativisim, which is selfishness and pride in its truest forms. No absolute truth, just individualism and indifferent cowards.

Jesus will put an end to this one day.

[Mercy me]

I was scrollong throught the different answers and I kept thinking that to me the answer is relativism and was surprised that it had not been said until stbernardLT.

It includes all the deadlies and undermines all the that we believe.

[jeffpugh]

Yeah, I clicked other. Relativism hands down.

[uruviel]

Well it would be impossible for us to say who is sinning more with what sin. It's not our place either. If you asked me, I would say the devil is the problem and the weakness of our hearts. Our own weakness does not prevent us from trusting God, but rather is the only thing that gives us the humility to give ourselves over. So many of us choose not to see our weakness out of pride. The devil pulls souls into hell with whatever he can. It would be impossible to judge what he uses the most for it.

Edited September 2, 2007 by uruviel

[journeyman]

Two questions, not necessarily the same answer to each, as one is from the perspective of a participant in this time . . . and the other from a time in which (right/wrong/indifferent - is the latter Apathy's clone?) the sin/error will be revealed


In the present world, which is the biggest threat to human hapiness and salvation?

a misguided idea of what human happiness might be? poor catechesis? the lack of any rational connection between happiness in this world and time and salvation in the next? relativism, liberalism, materialism, lust (in the sense of carnal/sensual desires - not just the sexual aspect, but all sorts of physical sensations come under that heading), pride, self-indulgence could all speak to different aspects of the same thing . . . "if it feels good, do it" . . .


or Which sin or error do you believe history will attribute to this current generation?

it depends on how charitable they want to be:
insanity or stupidity - they knew what needed to change, but didn't change