Liberalism Is a Sin

By Fèlix Sardà i Salvany, Felix Sarda y Salvany, Félix Sardá Y Salvany

Book Overview

Refutes every aspect of the deadly error that one religion is as good as another and that a person has a moral right to choose whichever religion suits him best. Cuts through the foggy religious thinking rampant today Impr. 204 pgs, PB

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 089555478X
• ISBN13: 9780895554789
• Release Date: June 1993
• Publisher: Tan Books
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.4" x 7.1"

Customer Reviews

A much needed warning to modern ears

This book is a warning and condemnation of what today can be described as religious pluralism and indifferntism. The word used at the time of the writing of this book for that is "liberalism," and hence this book is not about the political ideology per se. This is one of those books that will get you pumped up and motivated to be much more serious about your faith. Words and phrases are not sugar-coated, and a spade is called a spade. Though published around 1900, the book is extremely applicable today. It has about 30 short chapters, each answering and looking at different aspects of liberalism, such as what it is, how to recognize it, what to do about it, etc. It is quite sobering to read this book, knowing that it was published so long ago, and read the harsh words the author has to say about this sin of sins, realizing how much worse things have gotten and how deeply liberalism has been ingrained into our culture. The author points out all the different faces of liberalism, including the worst kind, the so-called Catholic liberal. This is the most dangerous because he acts as a wolf in sheep's clothing, masquerading as a Catholic concerned about the Faith. Being so much a part of a culture where liberalism is taken for granted, it is easy for a Catholic to fall victim to subtle liberal doctrines, even unconscionably, and this book gives very good advice and reminders to avoid such thinking and actions.

Very Perceptive

This is a great book with wonderful insights. It is all the more impressive that it is over a hundred years old. They should have had a copy of this at Vatican II. The cover alone is worth the price and would make a great poster.

Excellent book

I can hardly tell you how grateful I am to my friend Mario because recommended this superb book to me. I'm a traditionalist Catholic who has always seemed theologically ultraconservative. But Fr. Slavany has proved that liberalism had tained my thought about charity, i.e., Christian love. That love requires Catholics to denounce heresy and sometimes even heretics. Blunt denunciation can be charitable becaue it protects people from a heresies and from the proponent of heresies. If it hadn't been for Father Salvany, I probably would have kept believing my misconception about charity. Today, when false ecumenism and other evils fool Catholics into thinking that they ought to be too conciliatory and to believe that non-Catholics have a God-given right to believe heresies, Father Salvany's book is a much-needed cure for liberal opinions.

The second most enlightening book- after the Bible

Before reading this book, I was neoconservative (often called a "classical" liberal). That is to say, I accepted the very basic principles of Liberalism while rejecting some of the more radical elements established during the 20th century. After reading this book, however, I can now say that I am a "classical" conservative. Don Sarda reveals in an easily understood manner the errors of Liberalism, especially how even the smallest amount of it is poisonous. Neoconservatism is just the first step in the process that produces the philosophies of communism, radical feminism, and other errors of "modern" society. Liberalism is a Sin articulates the idea of a Catholic state well, and explains how human reason is not and should not be the sole arbiter of what becomes law or what opinions we should hold. Though it was written well over 100 years ago, everyone, especially conservatives, should make it one of the books at the top of his or her to-read list- if only to see what 19th century conservative theory was like.

Eye-Opener

Liberalism Is a Sin is a powerful book written in Spain in 1886 and its content is more relevant today than when it first appeared. Although written from a Catholic perspective, this book is an eye-opener for catholics as well as for open-minded non-catholics. The moral depravity existing in our country today is a consequence of liberalism (pervasive in television, movies, literature, public and private morals) deeply enmeshed in our society. Liberalism asserts the sovereignty of the individual and social reason and enthrones Rationalism in the seat of authority. "It knows no dogma except the dogma of self-assertion." You will learn in this book that the non-logical thinking of liberalism which infects so many people today is the rebellion of the human intellect against God. This book contains the answers to the questions that people today are almost universally asking, "What has happened to our society? What is wrong?" I highly recommend this book..