Thought for the Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Our Lady of Fatima – ‘more souls go to hell for sins of the flesh than for any other reason,’ and ‘people must renounce sin and not persist in it,’
sins against the sixth commandment lead directly to sins against the fifth commandment, always always. …
Matthew 5
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ 28 But I say to you that every one who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29 If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and throw it away; it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.[e][f] 30 And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away; it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.
eye.. viewing pornography…
hand .. masturbation…
Not suggesting that ought to be the punishment(s).. am suggesting that sexual sins are serious.. and they become deadly when you do not take them seriously at all.
The domestic disorder of our time is a consequence of pretending there are no sexual sins.
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What’s interesting is the social psychological phenomenon you see among bourgeois ‘progressives’, and, really, middle-class people generally. Job one is to please sexual deviants and that’s done by policy measures equivalent to throwing rubbing alcohol on an open flame. How we came to a point where it was modal among the middle class for one’s public esteem self-understanding to be regulated by one’s attitude toward homosexuals and miscellaneous freaks is a history to explore, but hardly anyone among the 1.2 million post-secondary teachers in this country will ask the question.
In my youth, I used to hear, “if there is a god or gods, I’m sure they don’t care about who we have sex with or some borders in the Middle East”. As I grew older, I noticed the two most common ways people mess up their lives are over who they have sex with and their opinions about borders in the Middle East.
This sin got me into a lot of trouble. But compared to His Holiness, what do I know? I was just a submarine sailor with a girl in every port, as it were.
LQC,
St Augustine would/does side with you.
“The” question is HOW COULD THE AUGUSTINIAN NOT KNOW!
Which Augustinian doesn’t understand the danger of sexual sin?
“ They [sexual sins] are a pathway to a bleak life here and hereafter.”
Wise words yet unheeded in this troubled and unhappy age.
Not the worst, Mr. Feser? Oh, I think they rank right behind murder….and I don’t need Mr. Feser’s validation on that point.