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Related: About this forumTroubling signs that Satanism is infiltrating Catholic Church
NOTE: This article is NOT satire, believe it or not.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/troubling-signs-that-satanism-is-infiltrating-catholic-church
Should we be surprised about this? In a way, yes, and in a way, no.
The most powerful churchmen will suffer the greatest temptation to ally themselves with the angel of light who attempts to rival God and overthrow His orderan order most apparent in the differentiation of the human race into male and female, and the ordering of sexual activity to procreation. Any powerful man in the Church, if he does not bend all his effort to sanctifying his soul and body in accord with supernatural virtue, will be drawn to defile his soul and body with unnatural vice. Those who are not totally committed to Christ will find themselves sliding down into the party of His archenemy.
...Pretending that we, in our time, are not witnesses to and participants in an unprecedented battle between supernal armies of good and evil would be delusional. The enemy has breached the walls and is inside, comfortably seated on episcopal thrones, running curial offices, and long since committed, with the help of Satan and his angels, to the destruction of any recognizable form of confessional Christianity.
Got that? Those of us who see no evidence of a supernatural struggle between Yahweh and Lucifer are the delusional ones.
dlk
(12,382 posts)Major Nikon
(36,900 posts)Major Nikon
(36,900 posts)Because it was really satan's fault all along.
As batshit crazy as this sounds, it really should come as no surprise any of them make that claim. This is the kind of garbage they are indoctrinated with. It absolves them of any personal responsibility for the evil shit catholics may do. The only mistake they can make is leaving the door open for Lucifer.
Cartoonist
(7,534 posts)There has been some objection here to the use of that word to describe believers. Glad to see it come here to roost.
MineralMan
(147,606 posts)That excuse never works.
It's all the same thing, really. Supernatural entities, one and all. Non-existent, one and all. Figments of the imagination, one and all.
Fundamental Protestantism has long attacked the Pope and his many minions.
So much for comity among Christians, eh?
Major Nikon
(36,900 posts)MineralMan
(147,606 posts)Scapegoating goes way, way back, apparently. But, then, God apparently acknowledges his role in all of that, as he is reported to have said in Isaiah 45: 7:
"The Word of the Lord"
It stands to reason that a deity who created all things created evil as well.