Suggested Prayer for a Recovering Postmodernist

In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

I firmly believe and profess that reality is objective, that is, it exists independently of any human perception, including my own, and also that truth is a state of correspondence between belief and this reality, and that all beliefs which fail to meet this criterion, no matter how meaningful to the one who holds them, are false. I maintain that the Christian faith, as proposed by the Magisterium of the Catholic Church, corresponds to reality, and, since two contradictory beliefs cannot both be true, of necessity I also maintain that beliefs which contradict the same Christian faith, including those of a deeply held religious nature, do not; that is to say, they are false and those who hold them are wrong. Moreover, I believe and profess that truth is desirable and falsity dangerous. Hence it is profitable that those who hold false beliefs be dissuaded from their errors and brought to the knowledge of the truth, which task is accomplished, among other means, by deductive reasoning, since true premises and sound logic always yield true conclusions. Finally, I firmly believe and profess that moral and religious truth, since it consists in the conformity of mind to the immutable and absolute God, is itself immutable and absolute, and that it is, without any taint of error, expressed in the propositions defined as dogma by the Catholic Church, understood in the same sense they have always been understood. Glory be.

In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Ben Douglass