One principle that today’s intellectuals most passionately disseminate is vulgar relativism. For them it is certain that there is no truth, only opinion: my opinion, your opinion. They abandon the defense of the intellect; those who surrender the domain of the intellect make straight the road to fascism. Totalitarianism is the will-to-power unchecked by any regard for truth. To surrender the claims of truth upon humans is to surrender Earth to thugs. Vulgar relativism is an invisible gas, odorless, deadly that is now polluting every free society on earth. It is a gas that attacks the central nervous system of moral striving. “There is no such thing as truth,” they teach even the little ones. “Truth is bondage. Believe what seems right to you. There are many truths as there are (many) individuals. Follow your feelings. Do as you please. Get in touch with yourself.” Those who speak in this way prepare the jail of the twenty-first century. They do the work of tyrants.
Michael Novak

If Jesus Came To our House

If Jesus Came To our House

If Jesus came to your house.

If Jesus came to your house to spend a

day or two
If he came unexpectedly, I wonder what

you’d do.
Oh, I know you’d give your nicest room

to such an honered Guest,
And all the food you’d serve to Him

would be the very best,
And you keep assuring Him

you’re glad to have Him there
That serving Him in your own home is

joy beyond compare.

But when you saw Him coming,

would you meet Him at the door
With arms outstreched in welcome to

your heavenly Visitor?
Or would you have to change your

clothes before you let Him in?
Or hide some magazines and put the

Bible where they’d been?
Would you turn off the radio and hope

He hadn’t heard?
And wish you hadn’t uttered that last,

loud, hasty word?

Would you hide your worldly music and

put some hymn books out?
Could you let Jesus walk right in, or

would you rush about?
And I wonder if the Savior spent

a day or two with you,
Would you go right on doing the things

you always do?
Would you go right on saying the things

you always say?
Would life for you continue as it does

from day to day?

Would your family conversation keep

up its usual pace?
And would you find it hard each meal

to say a table grace?
Would you sing the songs you always

sing, and read the books you read,
And let him know the things on which

your mind and spirit feed?
Would you take Jesus with you everywhere

you’d planned to go?
Or would you, maybe, change your plans

for just a day or so?

Would you be glad to have Him meet

your very closest friends?
Or would you hope they’d stay away

until His visit ends?
Would you be glad to have Him stay

forever on and on?
Or would you sigh with great relief

when He at last was gone?
It might be interesting to know the

things that you would do
If Jesus Christ in person came to spend

some time with you.

Computers for Christ – Chicago