Postmodernism challenge to Christian morality

                                                                         

Doctor in Theology: Antony Pastine Catalin

- 2012 -

Contents

Introduction

Renaissance Humanism I.

II. Enlightenment

III. Modernism (evolutionism, Marxism, nihilism and secularization)

IV. Postmodernism and its consequences:

a) Organic .Criza

b) .Globalizarea and its components:

1. New Age

2. Bioethics

Conclusion

Introduction

Metamorphosis European world of the modern era or epoch MEDIVA Enlightenment of the eighteenth century entailed considerable mutations European culture scene. Since God took the man, from theology to science passed, and passed from spiritual values to material values, like so many expressions of globalization ..

The mechanistic conception favored the enormous scientific and technological progress that society knows that contemporary Western. But this conception is spiritual and moral regress because the world in which we live. Economic, financial and political acquired considerable importance to the detriment of spiritual concern. We live in a world where material values have triumphed over the spiritual. On the one hand, we witness the victories of science and technology that go far beyond the most optimisticexpectations of the eighteenth century, but his inner life, one feels caught in the grip of irrational forces that can no longer control . The explosion of violence and sensuality, which spreads throughout the company and encompasses circles increasingly broad constitute conclusive evidence of human degradation and spiritual climate of contemporary society.

Understanding and accepting the link between Logos and creation of paramount importance for the destiny of the world. As a result of misunderstanding of the relationship or its rejection in the West has been developed evolutionary theory, which assumes that God or no, or at least absent from the act of creation. For if theyexist, should be allowed or not can create 6 days to bring the world into being only with His word or not want, and then we have to do with a God who is love. So God creates has no reason not to engage in any salvation and has no conditions that created them himself to the Incarnation. The atheist evolutionism needed philosophers to argue the very origin of human autonomy, or words of Darwinist Richard Dawkins: "Darwin made it possible to become a complete atheist intellectual point of view".

Renaissance Humanism I.

The former Renaissance cultural movement was humanism, which represented a revolt against God and teaching about the divine nature of man. Considering that real free and harmonious human affirmation took place in paganism, humanism Renaissance refreshed pagan beliefs and practices. Although humanism put man at the center of the world, saying he wants its full affirmation, promotion of the dignity and value of human developmentand even unlimited possibilities of human perfection, free development of personality, in fact sentenced to alifetime limited teaching natural world, depriving it of infinity horizon and the prospect of eternity.

Humanism is a rebellion against the true nature of man and the world, an escape from God, a denial of all the realities of human existence, all of them dressed in the opposite language. Therefore, Subhumanism is not anobstacle to achieving humanism; Subhumanism is the culmination and purpose of humanism. Therefore, irrationalism today is only an exposure of Enlightenment irrationalism, revealing it as a tangle of lies and deception, as in reality. Subhumanism humanism teaches that enlightenment, divorcing God - the last reason is not basically rational. Subhumanism is the practical consequence of the theoretical denial of the image of God in man, and irrationalism is the practical consequence of the theoretical claim that manwithout God can be rational.

II. Enlightenment

In the eighteenth century, called the Enlightenment, Voltaire's century and Diderot, modern man decides it'stime to declare independence from God and the Church, that he is law unto himself and is master of the world and history, in order to implement the plan for universal domination. Embracing helped by materialism and scientific revolution in this century, modern man renounces the life-giving Spirit and sentenced to death.

The main cause of these mutations is the result of materialistic conceptions of the universe, deprived of their inner and spiritual support in God, capable of holding together heaven and earth, the visible world with the invisible and the supernatural with the natural world.

The result was a mechanistic conception of the universethat survives to this day in heterodox theology, a concept which takes into account only the visible world, separate from the unseen. In these circumstances, it is no wonder that the theory was put into circulation actually double, a spiritual and supernatural truth, and a natural and scientific truth,which would lead to conflict between religion and science.

Man has reached Autodivinizarea-happened in ideology created by him and it was preparing the most tragic experiences that mankind lives after Christ.

III. Modernism (evolutionism, Marxism, nihilism and secularization)

Darwin, Marx and Nietzsche are the champions of the modern era in its work - ideological and practical - the destruction of the human person. Darwin's evolutionism was one of the premises of dialectical materialism developed by Karl Marx. This worldview is based on the general laws of motion and development of nature, society and thinking deeply on atheistic positions. The development of dialectical materialism then contribute VILenin. Although supporters of dialectical materialism claim that it is a scientific method of knowledge and revolutionary transformation ofthe world and, thereby, the man himself, in reality, this view

the great ideologies that formed the basis on behalf ofbright promises for the future of humanity have committed the most brutal campaigns of human mental andphysical decimation. In their jealousy against

Christian values and wanting to eliminate God from all human concerns, Marx and Engels proved to be on the line modernity. Finally, Marx, Engels, Lenin and other illustrious representatives of modernism have created an ideological platform for the mass murders that are guilty of Communism and Nazism, known in history as themost inhuman ideologies.

The ideology of the modern era had tried and managed tomake man a god, and fascism and communism have created the right framework for these gods - they were too many- to încaiere. But this skirmish and destruction followed after modern humans, according to Nietzsche, had "killed God" in their hearts and as a result, "God is dead".

The main mission of the program and most obvious is nihilistic destruction of the old order, which formed the basis, supported by Christian truth, that these people were rooted. Here there are violence, nihilisticspecific virtue. * The sufferings caused by the nihilism of modern man is incalculable, because after darwinsm and Marxism, Nietzsche's nihilism was the one who offered the latest and most precious of the strong motivations to destroy what is old, including humans.

Nihilism, its pure form, represented by Russian revolutionary Lenin Neceaev inspired and therefore it has exercised the ruthless power and began the first successful European experiment of a policy totally devoid of principles. Nihilism also inspired Hitler, so

that Europe and even the whole world could live throughthe experience of life without God.

The fruits of Darwinism, Marxism and nihilism - expressions of the modern era and creation of modern man - shook the world and human consciousness. These ideologies man demonstrated what degree of madness can be reached if the only reality center is considered Godas Creator of man and of history.

Nietzsche invites us, as Faust and Mephistopheles, to be gods in this world. For the fruit of this world is expected superman lead and tasty and it can taste all the fruit without fear of earthly paradise - but not all people, of course - but only those converted to anticreştinism and share with the blood of the new Dionysian pagan god who speaks through the mouth Prophet Zarathustra. But, leaving such deluded servantsof Satan, humanity fell into the trap of their madness.For although God in Heaven On isolated as he remains anabsolute master on earth, believing that without God will be free, man became his own passions and human laws, which have terribly complicated life and lead himto suicide .

Earthly paradise promised by Lenin, Stalin or Hitler - pure breed being paranoid obsession, Marxist materialism as a form of idolatry of matter - has turned into a planetary inferno without precedent in human history, causing it to million dead, concentration camps, gas chambers and other means of

mass destruction, whose coronation was the atomic bombsof Hiroshima and Nagasaki in. Millions of people created in the image of God, were exterminated like worms and ants that, in record time, thanks to remarkable advances of modern science and technology which dark Satanic spirit of destruction, confirmed theindustrial-scale pact blood through which mankind had fallen into captivity omorâtorului souls.

The world discovered with horror that human reason is not only a source of happiness, but also the cruelty and iniquity, hatred and revenge, terrible suffering that man causes fellows.

Modern thinking out from under God made the world He created the scene of the fight against all wild competition, an environment which lacks Christian values: compassion, love and forgiveness, communicationand loyalty, and that under the so- called peace. Believing that man will be fully or he will say that man without God, man dehumanized because, separating from Christ, was comprised of darkness.

To realize the consequences and risks for the life of the Church and the modernity of contemporary man, we highlight three The main mutations it introduced modernism in contemporary culture.

First, modernity has become the center of gravity of the world from God to man, so that man feels so autonomous in front of the Deity, that they consider

God's will that kind of attack against his own freedom.In this anthropocentric conception of man is done by himself, without God's help.

Secondly, modernity introduced artificial separation between public and private sectors, which is manifestedby a tendency to eliminate religion from social life and transform society into a reserved area, mostly economic-blend priests , causing the man to forget the spiritual values which lift to the image of God, and toembark on a desperate search of material goods

this world who will never be able to stem his thirst after eternity.

Third, modernity separated man turned into the surrounding nature and absolute master of nature, considering that man's role is to enforce its own laws of nature different from those of God, and to shape andexploit nature right His desire for profit and domination earth, leading to the contemporary ecological crisis and could lead to the undermining of life and human existence.

The General Assembly of the World Council of Churches in Canberra (1990) believes that modernism and secularization are the result of a fatal theological error that confused the transcendence of God with His absence from creation. In other words, the Spirit of God has been removed from creation and cosmos, as a man, became autonomous.

However, they began to show signs of hope where we least expected in fundamental physics, which exceeded the existence of the thing in itself and mechanistic relations between things, cause and effect, promoted byclassical physics. New physics has discovered that there are things in themselves, but all are in a reciprocal relationship to build that order the universe and deep inside I was talking about above. Sure, there is the opinion that the results of quantum physics can be interpreted and used by each, in its sole discretion, as is happening in reality.

Man was not created to speak to himself and to secularize, but to be a dialogue partner of his Creatorand a liaison between God and the world, rooted deep incosmic reality, but in the Trinity, as to transfigure creation in Christ. In this theological vision, the world remains closed on itself, but open to the transcendent, with all the ensuing consequences.

In other words, these considerations will show that because Christianity has moved from a pantheistic conception of the world, the world that confuses divinity and sacredness terrorized by her man at a deist conception of the world and plays desecrating human freedom towards it.

But what is more serious in this deistic concept that isolates the transcendent divinity, is that knowing Godassigns a mere intellectualist size and they ignore themoral and spiritual implications of the whole human

being, that is both soul and body . Thus knowing God becomes a matter of theoretical and speculative no longer interested people.

Autonomy creation as a result of isolation transcendentDivinity inevitably led to human autonomy and human reason toward God.

Under the influence of Aristotelian scholasticism, highlights and more autonomous nature of the universe in a mechanistic conception based on the existence of the thing in itself and the external connections between cause and effect, which ignore the presence of God in the physical universe and based autonomy in relation to the world with God. However, in this view, the supernatural order was not regarded as the natural opposite, but was intended to contribute to the improvement of nature by grace.

Enlightenment changed the meaning of autonomy that had the Western theology of creation, transforming it into an autonomy which denies the existence of God and His quality of Creator and Providence.

IV. Postmodernism and its consequences:

a) Organic .Criza

The autonomy of human reason, proclaimed by the Enlightenment, is the result of creative autonomy from God.

Going forward in the same direction, we can say that both isolation and autonomy transcendent Godhead in creation to its Creator led man to take the place of God on earth and to dominate the world on behalf of theCreator.

Unbridled lust for power was the man to do similar to God. Thus the human being invoked God's power to acquire religious justification for his own interests, and this view was upheld in European and American Christianity (Western Churches) which also remain liable for the crisis of today's world.

Under the command to land owners, the man believed thatthe visible world is called upon to impose his own order. As God made the world order based on its inner rationality of creation, so man, as the image of God, is meant to impose order of the outer world. This trendfinds its proper expression in the Kantian system that man is called to remove the laws of nature but to impose law and order flows from the nature of his mind where thoughts are given a priori categories (causality, space, time). It is true that because of this order which man sought to impose on nature viewed,managed to achieve a huge scientific and technological

progress which, though often turned against the man (bomb), it nevertheless contributed to human welfare ( civilized living conditions, combat disease, prolonging life).

But it is no less true that this order which man soughtto impart to the world came into conflict with the order placed by the Creator to all creation and productbasis immense ecological crisis, which pollute nature and man. "It is terrible to think, says CBE (Council ofChurches), that the human species that entered the stage of history and creation of only 80,000 years ago,when the planet's history was more than 4 billion years, and were able to threaten and undermine the verybasis of life in a period of 200 years, from the beginning of the industrial age. "

Detaching man and creation of their relationship with the center of gravity in God favored given the explosion of religious and cultural pluralism so contradictory in essence, that cause confusion and disorientation in the mind, soul and heart of believers. This is the cause of so many sects and philosophical currents that constantly assail the Church and society.

Recorded spectacular progress in science and technologyhas exacerbated the rift between man and God, because the world was conceived as a huge machine that works without God.

We are seeing a return of humans to the pre-Christian pantheism, which closes immanence man in the created world, disregard for God's transcendence. In this way man, who feels proud of the achievements of scientific and technological domination of the visible world, and loses his inner freedom becomes a slave of irrational forces, spirits and passions that transforms the inner life into a nightmare and it disfigures the spiritually.

b) .Globalizarea and its components:

The provision for closeness and communion with others is innate in man. And the pursuit of global communion constitutes the highest expression of human predisposition proximity to one another.

Thus, it becomes understandable that you find echo in many people drive global theories that arise from time to time, and political ideologies such as that which relates to globalization, promoted in our time of "new order" world.

Our age is sharer in the dispute between the two trends: globalization and the limitations. On the one hand, it removes borders and unify the world, while, onthe other hand, is developing procedures introverted

and nationalistic restraint or national, who was thought a long time that shrank.

First, globalization is nothing but a very recent revival of communism sunset. If communist ideology was the center staff, to the detriment of the individual, in the new globalized society is envisaged the creationof a universal nation, the role of the individual is increasingly small.

Although it seems to unite people outside or promote their mutual approach, removing barriers and facilitating communication partitions in reality, globalization leads to masses of individuals transforming peoples, cultures leveling, religions mixture homogenization appearance and behavior of people; in fact, the annihilation of the human person and the truth even about the person himself. This ideology sees the world as a homogenizing material, disregarding principles, values and its peculiarities, on the contrary, omnipotent reign sanctioning money. Globalization thus lead to the formation of a new man who has nothing holy.

Second, globalization promotes the internationalizationof violence, paving the way for new forms of organized crime, the widening gulf between rich and poor, the weak exploitation, extermination of unwanted, leading to loss of sensation people in contemporary society.

Anastasios Yannoulatos notes that "international coordination efforts and close, that looked in the beginning of a beneficial rain that fertilizes the world now develop in storms and floods threaten every corner of the earth with torrents rushing".

The gap between rich and poor countries is widening, asthe poor become a source of raw material for the rich become operational environment, and also outlet and workforce increasingly migrate from poor countries to developed ones. On the other hand, the massive increasein the consumption of goods leads to an irrational exploitation of natural resources, with catastrophic consequences ecologically irreversible. Also limited power of democratic institutions in countries that are not top in terms of economic development. They are required to act in accordance with directives or other international centers of global current.

Globalization, promoted by the new world order is only a deceptive front of universality. While it seems that unites people outside or to favor their mutual approachthat removes barriers and facilitates communication partitions between them in reality brings peoples transform masses of individuals, the leveling of cultures, religions mixture, homogeneous appearance andhuman behavior at the Americanization of lifestyles. The culmination of this process is negative human annihilation as a person and even truth itself about the person.

Religious syncretism of the new age (New Age), promotedby Christians sometimes threatens with extinction truthof the human person, directly targeting the first level, the theological. By relativizing Christianity and by trying mixing with other religions and religiousconceptions, aims to make disappear the truth about Godas a Person and His personal communion with the world, given that it constitutes the essence of Christianity. The different religions and Christianity are perceived and dealt with as simple means for regulating human psychological.

On the other hand, contemporary globalization, which ispart of the ideological adherents of the new world order threatens anthropological truth about the person level, leading to the effective disappearance. This move sees the world as a homogeneous material, disregards principles, values and confirms its peculiarities and omnipotent reign of money.

Globalization is a complex phenomenon that manifests itself at different levels. Many links it to the economy. And this is logical because the economy and especially in the financial economy, globalization presented a sweeping evolution.

This ideology (globalization or globalization) extends to all levels of human life, from the political to the religious, the spiritual and the cultural.

Means that promote globalization is technology nowadays. Nowadays, computer science and especially theInternet have brought a new way of life proscenium. They made possible the existence of an unstable societycan be formed outside space and to only consider the dynamics of time; a company that is not one-dimensional, but dimensionless.

Thus, any manifestation economic, political or other order can be placed within a certain time without any space to be in concrete. It can be done by people who communicate among themselves, without any connection with each other.

Negative repercussions of globalization are seen in badecology employment environment that is abusive and provocative by the powerful, who do not care about the world, but designed to achieve immediate economic interests, political or other order.

Globalization has corresponding consequences in other areas of social life such as the internationalization of violence, the widening gulf between rich and poor, the exploitation of the poor, extermination of unwanted, leading to unpredictable situations. Loss of sensitivity to people of contemporary society is no stranger to globalization.

Gobalizarea, however, lies not only at the macroeconomic level, but permeates all micro-social structures, to the human person himself, infusing his

destructive spirit which is the spirit of money. This spirit existed, of course, in the past. In our time, however, he won an undisputed world authority.

Today, all it boils down to money. Patria, religion, conscience, or everything that man needs, even the man himself is appreciated and purchased with money. Financial Spirit paralyzes man morally and turns him into passive recipient of external developments. In this way we are taken to the outskirts of morality.

Deserves special viewpoint of St. Paul made when listing various states of sin such as fornication, uncleanness, passion and lust of evil, love of money stops regarded it as idolatry (Colossians 3 5 and Timothy 6:10). This means that the love of money, the man interrupt communion with God and becomes a slave tomoney. In this way money gets metaphysical dimensions. Devine Mammon (Luke 16, 9-13), who struggles with God, which leads to amoralism ROBEST man.

This phenomenon has not suddenly created, but was prepared by lengthy processes that were systematized inthe aftermath of World War II, the ideology of economicdevelopment. This ideology was put into circulation in 1948 by the US President, Harry Truman, and became the world so-called ideal free.

After the collapse of communist totalitarian systems and extinction of fear of an adversary in the world it has created an ideological goal and it was natural to

want to cover. This ideologically empty try to be covered by the ideology of globalization. Thus man is called to submit to, or rather, to join a new company, International and boundless, leading to the alienation of the individual and community life.

The company reached the stage at which level all traditional differences and form a new man who actuallyonly has nothing holy.

But on the other hand, people who are not susceptible to the ideology of globalization, because they knew earlier ideological system of communist internationalism, related to globalization, wanted to return to nation states and their cultural peculiarities.

Of course, globalization has its positive elements thatshould not be ignored. As a process that facilitates people close to one another, making their relations services and cancel ethnic divisions between them, expressing the deepest aspiration of human nature.

From this point of view it is not only acceptable, but necessary. Dividing human, national, social and otherwise, is, according to Christian doctrine, states of fallen man to overcome.

The ideal situation humanity is placed beyond these separations, as Apostle Paul says: "There is neither Jew nor Greek, neither slave nor free; there is neither

male nor female; and all are one in Christ Jesus "(Galatians 3:28).

This is possible, but only by uniting people from spiritual level. Incidentally, this is what Christianity teaches. On the contrary, reject separations without simultaneous ascension to a higher spiritual level, will certainly erode the unity of the people and give rise to tendencies that disintegrate communion between people.

 "New Era" (New Age) is ever more insistently proclaimed the new false prophets (Matthew 24.11; Mk 13.6) first appeared in the area today called "Euro-Atlantic", ie US and North Europe West Anglo-Saxon, temporary masters of this century. Because it is called"new" must take place of the old type Hegelian dialectics under optimistic spirit world to progress.

At the moment we are astrologically speaking witnesses was the transition from fish to that of Aquarius into Cauia will install new era.

He was forced fish was identified - by the New Age movement that appears to be the most dangerous opponentof Christianity worldwide - the Christian era. This erais the end, you will have to disappear and with it Christianity.

Brings us to reinstate religious attitude that was shattered in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by

secularization and mass christianisation, great apostasy that we have lived to the full.

What we are proposing is a re-păgânizare of mankind as a syncretistic pagan religions unit type. This is the new religion - New Age - the globalization that is highly eclectic char Satanist.

From century "Enlightenment" Freemasonic, eighteenth century rationalist criticism pilloried, indiscriminatemixing religion, mysticism, superstition, magic, divination etc, installing in their place secularized society, a phenomenon which, by its consequences today supports and globally. Masonic Lodges left after 1848 imposed atheism in its various versions, Marxists have emerged giving rise to radical wing of the communists which was continued in the twentieth century Lenin, Stalin and others with disastrous consequences for society of former communist states.

Religious attitude, so human nature and society was challenged not only the positions of Christianity, but also of his child degenerated type of Enlightenment secularism West eighteenth century.

In view of Swedish specialist in the history of religions Nathan Söderblom, the sacred religion's essential for God. So religion is re-connecting with God, but with whatever is considered to be sacred. Thisspecific feature of secularization leads to the logicalconsequence that can be

atheistic religions. The concept of religion is highly diluted and so may include any display, such as for example football.

New Age is not a religion 'private' home, but a social one. This observation makes sense not only in secularist-Enlightenment conception present mainly in the US, where religion or belief, in general, private domain, public domain, state and society declaring itself neutral and religiously " secular "in religious terms.

New Age has as common elements with "spiritualism" XVIII-XIX: spirits, occult, spiritual masters, esotericsocieties, parallel worlds, spiritual evolution, supernatural, Oriental philosophies and concepts.

It should also be noted that two of the cornerstones ofNew Age beliefs, karma and reincarnation are Western theosophy, not Hinduism or Buddhism directly.

Within this movement are realizes salvation by themselves by awakening of superhuman powers that are latent in man awakening is achieved by different techniques of oriental meditation, alternative therapies or psychological origin transpersonal modifying brain functions (thing sometimes yield using LSD or ecstasy-type drugs).

One of the most common "altered states" produced by LSDis loss of personality. The concerned no longer perceives its own self as an entity, but is lost in

what Jung called "the conscience oceanic 'feeling that everything is one and that the individual consciousnessis an illusion.

According to New Age followers Fishes Christian salvation and missed the intended results and that is expected as a greater efficiency in the sign Aquarius, which is the astrological version millennial utopianism.

It is understood that this system Judgement, Heaven andHell have no place.

The New Age movement has defeated his followers most concerned with a new lifestyle. New Age lifestyle is driven by several factors of which the most widespread are: vegetarianisnul and naturalism.

Besides New Agers trying to develop a code of ethics moral-specific, focusing on ecology and feminism.

2. Bioethics

One of the legacies that we left last century (the sixth decade of the last century) is bioethics, a science with a huge field of research, but with a very limited content. This phenomenon should not be considered paradoxical, if it is considered that science Bioethics is called to reconcile the disparate views on the pressing issues of human life and contradictory.

As the object of bioethics research is considered firstof all human life. In fact, bioethics deals with all established medical and moral issues related to human life latest. The cause that has generated interest in bioethics is rapidly developing biology and its application in medicine.

Thus, bioethics is presented as an extension of medicalethics and his interest is centered problem by involving biology and application of new medical technologies in all processes related to the birth, growth and death of a human being.

Bioethics examines moral issues which particularly concern:

A). infertility, assisted reproduction, artificial insemination, prenatal control, birth control, abortionand those relating thereto;

B). preservation or improvement interventions on human life, cloning, extract and transplant tissue or organs;

C). addressing the terminal period of life, active or passive euthanasia and related financings.

Specifically, analysis of the problems to which we havereferred is the subject of biomedical ethics as bioethics extends over the whole world of human living and research links with it. But because medical ethics

is and the most important part of bioethics, is currently using the full name and part of the whole.

Bioethics, trying to prevent and control general developments arising from the development of biology and medical technology leaps, moves almost exclusively at impersonal. It objectifies numbered procedures and people, attempts to address general condition, and not people and interpersonal relationships.

His interest focuses on the analysis of the latest issues and cares for their global approach by ultrageneralizate principles.

Therefore, when not expressed in a religious confessionor a cosmoteorii, ignoring how can the religious, metaphysical or other order on the world and try to rely on utilitarian principles and values that can be accepted on a wider.

Thus, in bioethics are highlighted the following principles:

1. The principle of autonomy;

2. challenge the principle of avoiding pain and suffering;

3. The principle of beneficence;

4. The principle of justice.

These principles, which are interpreted, usually from different viewpoints, are proving very resilient in practice and even contradictory. In addition, today it is known principles and erosion of moral values in society. Even cases of unnatural behaviors such as homosexuality are known and accepted as normal. When man is emptied of any specific spiritual and identify with its biological functions, comes by itself and are considered normal.

According to the above, the basis remains the most important bioethics anthropology which is based medicine today. This anthropology, which is alien to the Christian essence, is mechanistic and one-dimensional. A normal one-dimensional anthropology mechanistic and can not support a real moral.

The moral is always understood as the movement from being to being good. But when it is being approached bymechanical and dimensional, then being good it is simply as an evolution not a qualitative or mechanistic's spiritual being.

Bioethics appears usually as a morality which is in a constant flow and transformation, imposed by research laboratories, exploited by political and economic factors and promoted by computer and means of mass communication. Do not hesitate to accept abortion as therapeutics or service to eugenics, promoting racism.

 Moral goal was always to help people good habits stillsmall. Morality, however, refer habit as such, but its quality. And, unfortunately, this work tends to be forgotten.

The habit is nowadays considered reason enough to justify any paractici when it presents some utility. Especially, when moral reactions occur on the question of applying contemporary medical technology, technocrats despise them and consider them side impediments that will be removed as people will acquirenew habit.

In parallel, promote the principles and religious commandments is characterized by representatives of secular bioethics as fundamentalism and therefore is downplayed or disregarded. All are, however, evidence of the weakening of moral conscience and profound spiritual crisis in which we find ourselves.

So it has come to a situation where, today, bioethics tends to replace traditional morality that has as main object of personal and interpersonal relationships between people.

Moreover, the actual deployment of morality began much earlier, in the theological, spiritual and seconding them further through empowerment and promoting almost exclusively a social moral. The social morals states inthe West since the middle of last century, and later

Western theologians concerned with the moral interest focused almost exclusively on Bioethics.

It appears in a larger space, the moral of globalization, that is a moral trying to bring people with different mentalities regarding trends and issues raised by contemporary medicine and biology applications and promote the homogenization of criteriafor addressing these problems. In parallel, it fosters the idea that the moral life of man is determined by biologists.

Bioethics, the ethics of globalization, closely relatedto the tradition of secularized Western Christianity and especially Western morals.

It is a legalistic moral character as moral and Westernsubsisting as its base. And it proposes general principles do not, ultimately, convergence points for people but springboards for launching contradictions between individuals. They are similar to the principlesof so-called social moral that can be interpreted and applied according to the wishes and interests of the powerful.

The golden rule: "All that you want to make sure peoplealso do ye them" (Matthew 7:12), man is called to put himself in the place of others and to act toward him assuch act like that to himself. In other words, the golden rule is addressed to the human person and put inthe work, by understanding and solidarity with the

neighbor. It cultivates close and exclude isolation, removed builds unity and disunity.

It does not happen the same with the principles of bioethics. Even more, it appears otherwise. Absolutes first principle of bioethics principle of autonomy is not approaching people, but isolates them, but not joining them apart.

Of course, this principle seems to respect the particularity of each. However, this respect is proved by the nature of things, to be a chimera, because it isimpossible to propose the principle of individual autonomy as long as society needs unity and not on whatto base.

If the individual is Absolutized communion disappears company. Therefore, the strong always propose their arbitrary position as a unifying factor for the company. Wine Laws restrict this arbitrariness. But morally, to total autonomy and confronting it with any idea or collective value leads to confusion and inconsistency.

It is normal for the Church to bioethics issues fall within the Christian moral concern. Moreover, the moralteaching of the Church has faced from the outset with bioethical issues such as abortion and euthanasia.

Thus, addressing bioethics, as well as moral ones, it must be based on anthropology and Orthodox Christian cosmology. He must see his problems from the

perspective of human deification and human renewal in Christ.

A fundamental premise of moral behavior of man is that man is not the cause of its existence, but its being isa divine gift. When this man has no conscience, it is normal to go beyond its limits and to autodivinizeze. Moreover, the guiding principle of Christian morality is the principle hypostatically or person principle, from which spring special meaning and functionality of other principles and methodology of moral and social life.

The human person is not a static given, but a development dynamic. This begins from the moment of conception and continue endlessly and infinitely Christianity is not impersonal or super-personal, but person. More specifically, the third person is the HolyTrinity.

Finally, suppose the birth and evolution of man and expresses communion. The person can not be seen as an isolated individual because there is only in communion.And true communion is always done in the human-divine communion which is the Church.

The threat of human burial in its genes pile, Christianmorality presents unlimited perspective of perfection and its deification.

Christian morality is cultivated and grows in the humanperson. Prosopocentric its character is, of course, in agreement with the views that dominate bioethics.

In our time, marked by a lack of spirituality is not heard with pleasure the reference to the spirit powers.Yet this lack of morality healing in which our society is today, as is the cause of the situation should not be sought moral or social level, but at the spiritual level. Hence the forces that influence the moral and social. Spirit reigning the hearts of men, that determines the moral and social life, and not vice versa.

Of course, this spirit can be crafty or perverse spiritcan be hedonism and materialism. But it will be all spirit and not flesh and blood. Therefore, Paul says that we are not fighting "against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against the powers, against therulers of darkness, against spiritual wickedness spreadatmospheres" (Ephesians 6:12). And as a man to fight against these spirits results, it needs Christian spirit.

Christian Spirit is not some impersonal force or principle. There is not even any temporary or eternal law. It is God who has revealed Himself in the person of Christ and remains in the Church through the Holy Spirit. And the healing of the world can count on his revelation degree with Christ and with the Church.

In the person of Christ, the Word of God as a person and as a commandment. It looks like the Son of God, which will be given to man and the way of life which absolutely corresponds to the divine command. The new commandment of love of Christ is not only time, but also embodied in the person of Christ. And they basically content shown in his life. "I give you a new commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you" (John 13, 34).

Christian Spirit offered above all through their life. Life must express the content of the Christian faith. This will pique and others to try the truth of the Christian life.

Thus, in the final analysis, straightening our society is a matter of personal referral. Moreover, each of us is a member of society, therefore, moving himself will direct part of society and thus create a hotbed of its body health.

We already find the highest point where it creates easymisinterpretation, misunderstanding. Judging straightening society as a matter of personal referral,understand first of all that we can ask ourselves straightening others. If God does not force man goes, how can we think of ourselves something? Respect for other's freedom is a prerequisite of any Christian act.

Moreover, we must know that correction of our own people does not mean limiting ourselves. Man, as a

person, there is always evolving relationship with others. The self can and should exist in a certain period of time for recollection and self-criticism.

But the goal is not to limit the Christian himself, butopenness to all humanity.

Grand error, which typically make is forgetting the double commandment of love and therefore dissociate ourindividual responsibility to social responsibility, which is universal. Thus, we come to understand personal responsibility as a lack of social responsibility and CSR as a lack of personal responsibility.

Personal responsibility involves caring for any justified intervention in social relations. And indifference to them, which proves social irresponsibility, not personal responsibility.

Christian considers himself above all, accountable to anything happening around him. Not judging others, nor does it deems responsible for social evil. Moreover, heconsiders responsible impersonal social system, whose value or lack of value depends on the man.

At the same time, however, not remain indifferent to what is happening in the world, to people and to the impersonal social system. And here we ought to confess that Christians indifference or ignorance or from ignorance or lack of courage, has a very important partin promoting evil in the world.

The world is our body wider. Its problems are our problems. Therefore, interest in the world is of interest to ourselves. Separating the person Nestorian our world, seeing the Monophysite Church, only as a spiritual society which has no relations with the issues of daily life become a reality heretics.

The Orthodox Church has always been interwoven with everyday life. The problems of injustice, poverty, health, social instability, feels like its own problems. The problems that we have people in our time are issues related to the body of the Church, that is our body.

However, the lived reality of the Orthodox Churches do not always seem to confirm their theological teaching. Temptation nationalism, which has been condemned by conciliar decision in 1872, does not cease to create problems for Christian unity. Likewise, money attraction is deadly threat to their spiritual life.

In the moral and social life, Orthodox probably not a position of superiority toward the heterodox. The spread of secularization, which started in the West andtransferred to the East, Orthodox peoples have been in a weaker position.

Mimicking natural rough and difficult to assimilate andcreatively use specific elements of foreign cultures creates a personal and social disorder.

Superiority is Orthodox, but the theological level, at the level remains in the truth of the Christian faith.

In the Orthodox Church there unadulterated truth of Christianity and kept alive his eschatological perspective. This is the great value of Orthodoxy and it guarantees the quality of its offer to the whole mankind.

Perspective outlines that currently the world by expanding globalization is bleak. All existing phenomena crisis confirms and announces upcoming explosion.

As long as man works aimed exclusively its individual interest, it neinteresându neighbor, society is undermined and is reached deadlock. The ideal springboard for economic development becomes self-destructive. CHOKING gluttony, on the one hand, and thedeath of starvation, on the other hand, death threatensour globalized society.

The rich get richer as the economy built on leading wealth always win hands of the rich and the poor get poorer because the same economy, to the need to slow down development to ensure its viability, limited incomes of the poor. This development, however, can only have an end, namely self-destruction.

Man can not humble light of his selfishness or empty, to accept others. Although provision is innate human nature to love, true love does not characterize fallen

man needs sacrifice and selfishness, that it might appear.

The model of this love is God in the Trinity. Unity of the Holy Trinity, which is achieved through loving and kenotic perichoresis Persons, is the prototype of unitybetween people, setting up the firm deifying.

Christ showed the world that love and the Church proposes all this love for man's salvation, coinciding with the rise to the stature of universal person.

In the Church, the believer is called to live the universal tragedy, which runs through the whole historyto reach reconciliation through repentance from universal, the universal communion of love. Thus the whole world and everyone Infratest open to universality.

To meet such a life perspective superhuman efforts are needed. Man is created and perishable called to improper mode of Being uncreated and eternal life.

Of course, this can not be accomplished only by man. Therefore Orthodox theology speaks always of divine-human cooperation, synergy theandric. And limit cooperation with God is only death.

Ultimately, this provides confidence and assurance thatGod's human death has been conquered. But thus breaks the wall of death and opens new creation of the gospel.

Therefore, the Gospel, as recorded by the Apostle Paul,"is not human" (Gal 1, 11).

In pantheism differently from that confuses being worldand being of God, Holy Scripture says that God's being is transcendent being radical to the world, but the energy, light and work of the Spirit, God is present inall creation.

Those who isolated the transcendent God and His disregard the world, divine omnipotence attribute denies God and transforms into a being powerless.

Uncreated God without His energy, which is present and working in the world, God appears as inconsistent.

Orthodox Church managed to keep religiosity people consistently saying the presence of God in creation andman.

Modern and postmodern human tragedy stems from the factthat he is forever longing for God, searching for Christ. This search for Christ as the meaning of life, anxiety and disorder underlies the modern human suffering, for in the depths of his soul in May flashing longing life he choked itself a regret after losing meaning. And the meaning of our lives is revealed only when we discover our roots deep in the Trinitarian reality in Christ.

In other words, without faith in God's life is marked by non sense. The successes and joys, labors, his good

deeds go nowhere. Do not provide any lasting reward andthank him forever man. Good and evil only because matter is suppressed conscience and freedom is also empty in the absence of God and not only because there is no role with responsibility eternal value. The sufferings and death of the causes anguish and despair,because beyond it there is no horizon, everything seemsfutile. Such a man completely covered in natural frames, only can have any value, because the whole earth belongs. He has given worth as much as both can produce, becoming source of income. Its value lies onlyin what is seen: his body. And then just man is a mystery, but is anyone but only some. Not a person, buta person, puppet, one of the many animals.

Exaggerated human preferences modern and postmodern, expressed toward esotericism, gnosticism, magic, occultism, witchcraft, spiritism and Satanism and that these phenomena have become today magnitude that seem to replace faith in God, everything is explained by theemptiness that he feels his man inside due to the absence of God in his life.

Undoubtedly, the civilization where we live is dependent economic development: the focal point of the search for truth is not spiritual or essential thrill to the mystery once and uniqueness of every person. Thepublic space of the agora loses its classic dimensions in such a large extent that the market place (market), in the economic sense of the word. If, in the classic

sense, agora is where different voices meet and listen to a mutual enrichment, strong emerging economic factors operating within the contemporary culture sometimes painful reductions. The disappearance of the fifties and so far half of the languages spoken in the world should be a serious signal reflection due respectto national and local cultures.

 Man looking for a sense, does not find in today's society and is not satisfied with the life you have. Then he finds refuge in some imaginary "artificial paradises". Violence, drugs, alcohol have the same roleas occult practices listed above: to fill the gap left inside the man after God has been banished.

Under the influence of the postmodern world, even some pious Christians are victims of these serious deviations, being encouraged by some priests killed in cupidity. Increasingly, it is noted that only the Holy Cross and icons are venerated for their relationship with the holy people they represent, but they are worshiped separately and in their place.

Everyday concerns of postmodern man, and these concernstilts more toward the bottom, toward the subject and body culture itself fell to the temporal ideals and petty. For it is the work of individuals who live only to eat, to produce material goods dress, to multiply and to master, to individuals who are no longer striving to emerge from the rules of nature but resigns

himself, seeking to honor pleasures to live their livesand fulfill their dreams in this life that I love.

Postmodern man greedily wants more and more goods and therefore arrive soon to be possessed by his own possessions. And postmodern society stimulates greed, manufacturing always new needs, but those needs are induced, products and provoked. Never, throughout its entire history as the man never had the power to createartificial needs. They give but unsatisfied and overwhelmed him, prevents personality to mature.

Deep in his soul he suffers, but suppress their suffering with intense experience of the moment. The sufferings it causes man who consumes more

Moreover, at the urging of publicity often immoral persist in humans, despite the common message of all advertising is the motto of whom bore fruit rich field:"you have many goods laid up for many years; take thineease, eat, drink, and be merry "(Luke 12:19); target ofsuch advertising is to make us worship the womb: "god is their belly" (Phil. 3:19).

As a result of subhuman level reached postmodern man, he only tasted and only true culture is able to create an authentic culture, which explains the preference of most young people today, expressed in surveys, to subculture. It does not require an effort in the act ofcreation or at the reception, but neither feeds. The suffering that it causes inability to thirst Absolutely

right, planted in man through the act of creation, and therefore the mission and destiny yearning after heights beyond the natural world, modern man is too often and increasingly surrogate victim: alcohol, drugs, sex, prostitution, adventure, luxury, violence, pornography, etc. But they do not take the place of Godand do not solve the fundamental problem of man: salvation.

Lacking the model - Christ, the modern man looking for patterns among men, but because of the confusion promoted himself by removing and disregard divine revelation - the only true universal criterion - and the rule of divine values of truth, good and beautiful,modern man declaring himself the measure of all things,decides what is good and what is bad, who is good and who is bad. That is why he seeks and finds patterns of conduct immoral people without end and without God, only because they were declared "megastars" and "superstars".

The confusion between good and evil, between truth and falsehood, between beauty and ugliness, between music and noise, of works of art or culture and kitsch, between morality and immorality, generated by indifference to the Person of Christ, led to the overthrow scale values . Therefore, Holy is disregarded, and the star, even if it is immoral, is idolized. But by this man demeans himself, because if life lived in holiness only constitutes an attractive

target and higher, man betrayed his destiny; if one prefers what is small and fleeting greatness and eternity instead, he chose the state and condition of the animal and was disqualified! "For my people did twoevils: Me, the fountain of living waters, have forsakenme, and have dug wells broken, that can hold no water" (Ier.2,13).

We are dealing with a new anthropological, resembling less and less Christian anthropological type. In postmodernism, new anthropological day looms as required, transmitted through the media and not by the truth revealed.

The new anthropological refuse obligations, faithfulness, responsibility, and precisely by their refusal to disturb harmony society and causes sufferingin the lives of others. Man postmodern consciousness only has sinfulness, guilt, because he does not feel accountable to God and man, so that sin in postmodern society is perceived as a fact indifferent, if not as avirtue.

We note with dismay that the streets, in factories, in the family, multiply "masks" and disappear "people". People have roles usually lifeless. Increasingly resembles more a mechanism accessories only are people.Very often we feel that we are in a dance of some people disguised sui generis, where participants hide their original identity with a note which consists precisely in the fact that every time when a mask is

removed, another appears. In such a crisis of human authenticity it is impossible that we walk together to become a real communion. People love only when it no longer can be honest, open, but being selfish, pretending, hiding their true face and true intentions.

"Masks" that people wear postmodern phenomenon generated distrust in relationships, a general suspicion that makes any man should only have total confidence in each other. Lack of trust carries with itthe fear of his fellow man and all contribute to the enhancement of stress and uncertainty. The chief cause of this dramatic situation in which postmodern man lives is in opposition to God and to his revealed truth. In place of God he prefers to spend more energy,be more and more human institution, to live in fear anduncertainty, and all without ever being sure if truth and justice were restored.

But all these sufferings it has caused modern and postmodern thinking man is a tragedy together that man lives today and is increasing by the day.

Therefore, today's crisis talks more than joy, more fear than hope, more than what separates them from people than what's coming.

The spiritual crisis, a moral crisis, political crisis,economic crisis, crisis management, family crisis, the crisis of educational and cultural crisis that talks somuch today are nothing but expressions of tragedy

postmodern society lives as a result of her separation from God.

For humans there is no other solution than turning to Christ because of the Incarnation of the Logos, the destiny of man is bound by his Christ. The coming of Jesus in the world or the Incarnation of the Son of Godbrings the world a law and reason, but reason itself and the law, not some conception of life but the supreme conception of life. "In Jesus Christ is revealed measure of all things and all values in this world. Like the time he is the center from which to start counting the years and towards the end of her world, so it's far from that report levels of life before he met or followed him.

Today, man is in a state of crisis and must return to his natural state. And the natural state of man is thatwhich defines him as a true man; the real man is the man of virtue, virtuous man, settled in well, proving that strength in opposition to sin and life which sees the presence of Christ through behavior and attitude. Man's natural state is to concern for the higher spiritual in taking responsibility to himself and to others, in personal cultivation and affirmation of human dignity. Man's natural state is the same state ofgrace, grace, and it can not have it unless you are in communion with Jesus Christ, our God and with others.

Doctor in Theology: Antony Pastine - Catalin