Virtues gone wild

https://merangue.com/tggorj8eo G.K. Chesterton, a Catholic, wrote in Orthodoxy, “The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and wasted virtues. Alprazolam Borderline When a religious scheme is shattered (as Christianity was shattered at the Reformation), it is not merely the vices that are let loose. The vices are, indeed, let loose, and they wander and do damage. But the virtues are let loose also; and the virtues wander more wildly, and the virtues do more terrible damage. The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone.”

https://blog.extraface.com/2024/08/07/25dxu5d9ueg A door in my understanding was opened up by the above quote from G.K. Chesterton. It makes a very important point about what happened when the Reformation tore the Church apart. You see, the problem was not simply and only that the Church was fractured, but also that the fracture of the Church fractured both the vices and the virtues of the Church. What does this mean?

https://sugandhmalhotra.com/2024/08/07/r6u79ycsqt9 It means that some of the virtues are wandering about without any connection to the whole structure of belief and received doctrine that is the Church—among many other things that the Church is. Thus virtues are wandering about without any solid foundation or structure to define and contain them. What does this mean?

https://transculturalexchange.org/qhuxfp2c Well, actually, you see it in many well-meaning people and many philanthropists nowadays. So, you see many people, who do not believe in other doctrines, strongly supporting feeding the poor, visiting the sick, visiting the prisoners, supporting the innocent, etc., etc., etc. So they have a belief in the virtues of the New Testament while denying the doctrines about the Christ. In other words, to have Christian virtues without Christian doctrines about Our Lord Jesus is to have a world where the “virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone.”

But what G.K. Chesterton did not foresee was the rejection of Christian virtues by orthodox Christians. Yet, this is also what we have going on nowadays. In reaction to the “virtues gone mad” all too many modern “orthodox” Christians have rejected some of the virtues, or at least explained them away, by simply labeling them with the word “liberal.” Thus, while on the one hand they espouse the idea of helping the widow and the orphan, on the other hand, there is little to no viable living example of the sacrificial giving necessary to bring that about without government involvement.

https://inteligencialimite.org/2024/08/07/6k4alx8t8pm At the same time, other virtues have been over-emphasized by those who are concerned by the “virtues gone mad.” This is the problem that G.K. Chesterton saw. An it is so today, we have a world in which certain parts of the Christian world are at war with what they see as the lacks in the non-Christian world in their carrying out of the “virtues gone mad.”

https://homeupgradespecialist.com/wb37gfmt8q And so, Satan has a certain amount of victory. On the one hand, non-Christians are misusing the Christian virtues without adequate philosophical backing or, to get a little more technical, without the sufficient epistemological support for their conclusions. On the other hand, some Christians are forgetting the virtues that both Scripture and the Early Church Fathers extol, merely because “liberals” are in favor of them.

https://www.psicologialaboral.net/2024/08/07/lk3r8kq G.K. Chesterton foresaw most of this. He did not foresee the “orthodox” Christian counter-reaction. But, he did foresee the rest of it.