The worst enemy of religion is ignorance. Therefore, it is crucial to cultivate doctrinal formation in order to arrive at a knowledge of the truth. This is especially urgent today, as many opposing doctrines abound, sowing confusion and disorientation in people’s hearts.

Easter brings to mind the victory of Christ, his divinity. From this triumph flow important intellectual consequences. This is what we will now consider.

Christ is God. And, therefore, He is infinite wisdom. Consequently, His knowledge far surpasses all the knowledge that human beings, and even all of humanity combined, can ever possess.

Thus, for example, his knowledge of divinity is so perfect that any knowledge of the infinite being, obtained by the finite mind of a mortal human person, compared to that is nothing.

Just as the soldiers guarding Christ’s tomb stood as though dead before the triumphant, risen Christ, so too do the teachings of Christ triumph over all opposing statements. Oppositions to Christ’s doctrine are defeated, falling to the ground, shattered, trembling, as though dead, before the incomparable radiance of the truth of our Lord Jesus Christ’s teaching.

In the face of Christ’s glorious presence, Renaissance anthropocentrism, the excesses of rationalism and empiricism, the anti-Christian Enlightenment, Kant’s idealism, Hegel’s pantheistic idealism, Marx’s materialism and atheism, Sartre’s atheistic existentialism, positivism, neopositivism, postmodern thought, etc., all fall to the ground.

The height of Christ’s thought, an unlimited sea of ​​pure truth, is so great that, in comparison with it, all the systems of philosophers, with their successes and failures, are nothing more than a toy.

Since Christ is the pinnacle of wisdom, it is understandable that the great minds and great hearts who have allowed themselves to be enlightened by him have greatly shared in his light and, consequently, have reached immense heights. Thus, for example, Christian philosophy is the philosophy that has reached the highest intellectual level. An example of a great philosopher is Saint Thomas Aquinas, a great follower of Christ, who is the wisest of the wise, who has nothing to envy in any other intellectual since the time of the creation of the world. Whoever has the light of Christ has a light superior to all other modes of thought. Christianity has raised civilization to a very high level also with respect to the intellectual element.

On earth, the three persons of the Holy Family—Jesus, Mary, and Joseph—stand out. The thought that Christ, the most perfect man, has transmitted to us is full of simplicity and humanity. The Blessed Virgin, having had no original sin even at the moment of her conception, and being the exalted Mother of God and most holy, has been enriched with immense intellectual gifts. In these three persons, a common denominator is observed: they are people of simple lives and simple thoughts, according to the will of Christ. For the greatest souls are the simplest! Simplicity is truth. The right path lies in being truly human. In this, Christianity also triumphs over all those who, in order to be philosophers, cease to be human. That is, they become strange people who contradict human nature. Christ teaches us simplicity, common sense, realism, and sound thought. The Christian way of life breaks with complication, with strange and inhuman doctrines. The Christian, a follower of Christ, who is the most perfect man, has the great liberation of being very human, very simple.

In short, the world today, teeming with so many misleading voices that corrupt our minds, needs liberation. This liberation is found in the doctrine of Christ, which wonderfully elevates human intelligence, and in comparison to which everything else pales in comparison.