faucetman to NYer: “You are on the broad way, hell bent for destruction”
Are the Protestant churches and private interpreters of Scripture who see nothing wrong with the use of abortifacient contraceptives on the broad path or the narrow path? I admit that 80-90% of my fellow Catholics in the pews on Sunday have been involved with contraception, but the Church has stood firm on that truth and not caved. Anyone who unrepentantly uses contraception is an idolater, worshipping his own fallen flesh and refusing to crucify it with its desires as the apostle Paul said. Is the reason this truth about contraception is ignored by most outside the church because without the Holy Eucharist and Confession, they don’t receive the heroic grace necessary to live the natural law which forbids the use of contraception? I wish Pope Francis would speak the old Council teaching that it is virtually impossible for a Christian to live the fullness of truth the way Christ wants him or her to, to stay in the state of Grace, without the Holy Eucharist. Christ wants us to shun even lustful thoughts. What mortification, what Grace this requires. What path are the churches and individual believers on who have ridiculously broad excuses for divorce, the broad one or the narrow one? What path are the churches and believers on who defend evils like in-vitro fertilization? So many good Christians are Pro-Life, but they seem to have no clue that trying to stop abortion while defending the use of artificial contraception is like trying to put out a fire with kereosene. They’re evils of the same poisonous tree, one leading to other. Or is it a coincidence that our Supreme Court legalized contraception in 65 and then abortion in 73? If sex is only or foremost for pleasure, what is the argument against so-called gay marriage? I think the private interpretation of Scripture is largely reponsible for the relativism that is destroying everything today. The relativism in which every man is a god onto himself. It’s the first temptation all over again: “and ye will be as gods who know good and evil.” Because Pope Paul VI stood up against all the pressure trying to get the Catholic Church to cave in on birth control, my faith is even stronger that I am a member of the One True Church which the gates of Hell will never prevail against as they prevail against virtually ever other institution at this point.
Well said.