Posted on 06/11/2010 10:31:15 AM PDT by markomalley
Satan doesn’t make you play with little boys!
This is exactly what happened.
No? So what does Satan make you do?
Satan is precisely the one who was behind the sins of (a very tiny group) of the clergy, and Satan is behind this attack on the Church, which does vast amounts of good in the world, including educating American black children to a standard where the average black graduate of a Catholic school is better employed and earns more than the average white American.
So I suppose the Holy Spirit does?
(Yes, I know...they did so of their own accord...but if Satan is not behind it, then I suppose God is?)
“(a very tiny group) of the clergy”
Has anyone run the numbers if it’s an average number?
A little self control.
That’s blasphemous!
So basically you are saying that we don’t have free will?
The activity of Satan is very often cited as a cop-out so as to blame inexcusable activity on an outside force.
Though Satan no doubt delighted in their weakness and evil, I see no reason to deflect blame, and no reason to believe they were possessed or not acting on their free will. We are called to resist temptations presented by Satan — failure to do so is our problem, not Satan’s.
Give glory to God for the good you do, take the blame on yourself for the evil you perpetrate.
SnakeDoc
I'm no Calvinist.
Maybe you should re-read the entire post.
ForAmerica
Since Apr 19, 2010
Perhaps you could provide some quotes from the article upon which you base your comments.
As a joke I said I could do better than that and he told me about a few people kept coming back the next day because they get home and think of more sins they forgot to confess and in these cases he had to get a written statement from the Bishop that their sins are forgiven and they can stop confessing.
That is the business the Church is in is seeking forgiveness. I think people forget that.
I’m no Calvinist.
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I am
It’s still a choice and it was a bad one!
Wow. A person only committing a mortal sin once a year.
He must have nothing but canonizable saints in his parish.
So being new here means that I can’t have an opinion or something?
It was a general response, and, honestly, my reaction every time I see Satan blamed for evils perpetrated by men.
SnakeDoc
I could do better than that.
By posting your anniversary date, it puts many people on alert to “ignore”. Many new posters are “seminar posters”.
Your posting history shows that you take delight in joining our Usual Suspects who are here to bash Catholics and LDS.
Lots of people will be praying for you.
“God personally looks after me, after us, after all mankind. I am not abandoned, adrift in the universe and in a society which leaves me ever more lost and bewildered.”
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Words to remember
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