QUOTATION: Secularism and the Sense of Sin

This secularism cannot but undermine the sense of sin. At the very most, sin will be reduced to what offends man. But it is precisely here that we are faced with the bitter experience which I already alluded to in my first Encyclical, namely, that man can build a world without God but this world will end by turning against him.

--Pope John Paul II, Reconciliatio et Paenitentia