>>10353246You show a lack of faith in God by thinking that he cannot accomplish his will regardless of the character of men. Choice is not an illusion. But choice between evils is not a real choice. One either chooses between good and evil, or between goods. A choice between evils is rendered meaningless by its evil, which surpasses in importance any difference between choices. You can say there is a difference between evils in the extent of their evil, but that is only to say that the difference between one evil and another is how little good is left in one versus the other. What's more, what kind of a humility is it that does not recognize that I am less virtuous than other men? In fact, in humility, I recognize that even if I was ruled by an unjust man who did unjust things to me, the injustice lies not in the consequences I face but only the man, for by my sins I would, by rights deserve hell. Even after baptism and the conferring of saving grace, suffering at the hands of an unjust man remains virtuous and just for me as an individual not least because it was by that very manner that salvation was achieved. If all men were perfectly humble, then the Kingdom of Christ would reign on earth. But that other men are not humble does not mean I should give up on my own humility and subservience. Rather, it compels it all the more. That any in the Church are corrupt only encourages greater devotion to the Church, greater humility, and greater obedience, for it is only by these things that the Authority of God is brought about on Earth. This approach openly calls for a mortification not only of flesh but of feeling. Though joys and sufferings may be experienced in compassion with Christ, they cannot be pursued without inviting ambition and pride, which could all judgment. These are the very things which create chaos, for it makes it so that one man will not obey another. It is not the manner by which things are decided which makes them good or bad, right or wrong, true or false, but the end to which things are set. If you set your end against the end put forward by God, which is to his greater and endless glory, how can you ever find what is good, right, or true?
