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Filed on 23 June 2010 in Food For Thought category. Print This Page

Conscience and a Respectable Voice

Hannah Arendt writes of Adolf Eichmann “His conscience was indeed set at rest when he saw the zeal and eagerness with which ‘good society’ everywhere reacted as he did.  He did not need to ‘close his ears to the voice of conscience’ as the judgment has it, not because he had none, but because his conscience spoke with a ‘respectable voice,’ with the voice of respectable society around him.”

Is that not a frightening analysis?  The voice of conscience submerged by the desire to conform, to be part of respectable society, to be successful.

(Fr Sean Fernandez writing on anti-Semitism. The Record 16 June 2010)

“At this point in Australia we have banned the mixing of human genes with animal eggs but in England they have recently approved this citing the fact that the public are now more at ease with the concept of hybrids or chimeras as long as they are also destroyed at 14 days. Note the justification – the public are now more at ease with this.  This is frightening – we are becoming desensitized to things we would never have contemplated.”

From Confessing Christ in a Culture that has Forgotten how to Shudder (rev. June 2010)