Luther and the Law

While working at the library I came across an interesting article on the demise of reason, written by a Catholic priest and defender of the unborn. The following is a few extracts.

Five hundred years ago, Martin Luther, an Augustinian monk who not only detested philosophy, but also refuted the very notion of logic in theology, led a rebellion against the Church that split Christendom asunder. He rejected "reason contrary to faith" and, in doing so, discarded the God-given means by which we discern what is good and what is evil. In short he declared war on the Natural Law. Luther's rebellion with its catch phrases sola fides (goodbye to reason), sola scriptura (goodbye to natural law) detached his followers from any exterior authority (the Church) and transformed then into a law unto themselves (each person becoming his own pope). And so were laid the philosophical foundations for the elevation of the human will and the autonomous self a the prime determinant of truth in all human affairs. Luther's intellectual heirs, the ideologues of the so-called Enlightenment, also held a disdain for reason that was only surpassed by their hatred for God and man ... Martin Luther's ideas have armed nature against us. The Church he attacked still stands by what she has always said: Nature reveals the mind of God and is not governed except by its [the mind of God's] rules and ordinances. The modern world following the mind of Luther tells us that to be happy we must overcome the prejudices inherited from tradition and free ourselves from every teaching authority. The Church tells us that to be happy we must put on the mind of Christ and live according to His law which is made known, even to unbelievers, through reason and the natural law.