Michael O’Brien: ‘It’s a battle to the death with a dictatorship of moral relativism’
Image via Wikipedia Barry’s Bay , Ontario, October 4, 2011 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - In his talk to the annual meeting of LifeSiteNews staff this summer, Canadian author , artist, essayist and lecturer Michael D. O’Brien spoke of his travels in various countries in Europe over the past year meeting with leaders in the culture wars who all had the same message. “To encapsulate it in a thumbnail would be to say everyone is fighting a battle to the death with a dictatorship of moral relativism,” he said. “Confusion is created everywhere through media. Media is the primary shaper of consciousness of our times. In every nation it was the primary worry of apostolic people - clerics as well as lay apostles. The unprecedented power of film and television is something we Christians have never had to deal with before on this scale. So new strategies are being initiated everywhere in every country that I went” “Everywhere there is the sense of facing a Goliath, a monster that feeds or is dri