Beware the Serpent’s Promises

Catholic Exchange ^ | May 24, 2004 | Dr. Earl H. Tilford

[NYer]

From Hitler’s vision for a Thousand-Year Reich and Lenin’s promise to use the dictatorship of the proletariat to build a workers’ paradise, to abortion depicted as a “women’s health issue” and homosexual behavior justified as an “alternative lifestyle,” evil always comes to humanity disguised as good.

Ping!

[NYer]

Eve never would have been tempted if the Serpent told her what really lay ahead — an end to paradise, the pain of childbirth followed by fratricide between her sons, the sufferings of aging culminating in the ravishment by disease and, finally, death. The Serpent lied... Eve suffered and died.

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[NavySEAL F-16]

I saw the movie -- and think all should see it. Our children need to be taught history. You cannot learn from the past if you don't know it, which I know is part of the NEA's agenda. Keep them stupid in the government schools! It is just so frustrating at the lies and propaganda that our children are being taught in these schools. And, on our tax dollars!

[correctthought]

One of the best things I read recently.

[MoodyBlu]

A bit off topic but we are considering Grove City for our son. He is just finishing up his junior year at a Classical Education school. We plan to visit in the fall.

MoodyBlu

[Saundra Duffy]

Beware the Serpent's promises. No kidding!

[NYer]

A bit off topic but we are considering Grove City for our son.

Not at all off topic! Here's an opportunity to gain some insight into the caliber of professor hired by that institute.

[Gritty]

BTTT

[.cnI redruM]

Richard Harris has a really great book about this whole scheme by Heydrich. "Fatherland" is a murder mystery that posits how Heydrich would have tried to cover up the final solution if Germany had won. An intriguing read.

[mad_as_he$$]

Interesting that it was published in the Catholic Exchange, considering that Hitler had the Pope in his vest pocket.

[Coleus]

 

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[little jeremiah]

Very good article. Wouldn't it be good if there were more professors like him?

I agree with the premise - that peoples' desire for perfect happiness, when invested in the mortal world, results in a perfect hell. That desire has to be directed towards a relationship of loving service to God, or it becomes a poison.

(I don't necessarily accept Adam and Eve as literal fact, but have no problem if others do. The moral of the story is what is important.)

[LiteKeeper]

read later

[redgolum]

Bump

[Right Angler]

The serpent is there to lie and tempt us at every turn. A dear old pastor used to say, "If the devil doesn't bother you, it's probably because you're walking with him!".

[TheSpottedOwl]

Ping for your consideration.

Roger, I know you don't usually show up on these type of threads, but the article is imo, very well written. I think it has relevance to the social ills plaguing our society today.

Thanks for pinging me, NYer. Great article! Pretty scary, too...

[jmaroneps37]

The greatest trick that satan ever did was to convince some people that he doesn't exist.

[MHGinTN]

" ... evil always disguises itself as good." There is no clearer example of this in today's world than the democrat's chosen mantra of 'a woman's right to choose'. Evil disguised as women's rights, reproductive rights (serial killing of already alive unborn children is way beyond 'reproduction' and fully into infanticide), or freedom to reject care for children.

[MHGinTN]

The democrat party has chosen to serve evil. But the people voting blindly for democrat candidates are yet to realize for whom they are truly casting their votes. And yet they insist they're Catholics, etc. Catholics/Christians defending infanticide? It makes one shudder at the blatant nature of Evil's parade.