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"Nice."

So he's a martyr now, just humbly following in the footsteps of his Master. His enemies can't be reasoned with, because they aren't reasonable, being possessed by hate as they are.

That is NOT fair.


To answer your question, Stevus --
Yes, I believe Catholics who go astray because of the flesh tend to lose touch with reality more and more. I know at least 2 of them personally. They do things that leave you scratching your head, thinking "HOW can they justify that? Weren't they taught clearly that it's wrong?" Usually they are extremely unhappy.

And yes, the temptation to "wield power" is very great. It takes constant vigilance. Even though it's just a small, insignificant web forum, you can still get into it, the same way a kid "gets into" a video game virtual world. In that world, he's super leveled-up powerful, even though it's all just a few bits on a computer somewhere. Once he turns off the Playstation he's nobody, but in that world he's super powerful. I've played RPGs (Role Playing Games) in the past, and I'll tell you that it's possible to immerse yourself in an imaginary world -- especially if you're a deep thinker/imaginative type.


Back to the fallen Catholic discussion --
Just like the characters we read about in World History, a person CAN be apostate or completely in mortal sin, and still be in possession of his main faculties (intellect, memory, reason, etc.), though his judgment of right and wrong gets increasingly clouded -- and his sensitivity to the gravity of sin dulls considerably.

Some will craft elaborate excuses and reasons to explain their current behavior. Some, being quite intelligent, do a pretty decent job at this!

In fact, Chesterton (in his book "Orthodoxy") talks about how it's the man of REASON who loses touch with reality and goes "mad" -- not the poet or artistic type.

Just read the missives of "Pope Augustine" -- the layman who still has a day job but considers himself pope (he said he's found the Great Monarch, and yesterday he said he's going to canonize Christopher Columbus.) The man clearly has some natural intelligence -- but he's gone off into his own world -- he's completely mad.

Matthew

http://catholicforum.fisheaters.com/index.php/topic,3423856.0.html
I'm going to stop the nauseous task of actually looking at a few of these threads as they are beginning to serve as a near occasion of sin due to the anti-Catholic content.

Truly a sad lot. The site is basically a gathering of socially challenged Neo-Trads exchanging juvenile & immodest humor and leading people into error. What a complete waste of time and an evil.

That's one of the reasons I started CathInfo -- to provide an alternative.

Everyone who joins CathInfo, posts something edifying, spreads the word about CathInfo, etc. does something to help improve the Catholic world a little bit. We all do our part. It all adds up.

Matthew

That's one of the reasons I started CathInfo -- to provide an alternative.

Everyone who joins CathInfo, posts something edifying, spreads the word about CathInfo, etc. does something to help improve the Catholic world a little bit. We all do our part. It all adds up.

Matthew

Amen Matthew. The sin and evil on FE is almost tangible. You just feel dirty even reading the inanity there. I'd love to say I expected it, but it really does wound me as a Catholic that the posters there take the owners' public sin so lightly.

In addition, Quis and other posters are still calumniating me months after my exit. An obsession of sorts. I still get to them even in my absence. It is really not so much me but the conviction of the Holy Spirit as all I did was repeat Catholic teaching while there. If all I did was attack people unprovoked I would have been long forgotten there.

As you remember, back when they first came out with the news a lot of the posters there fraternally corrected the mods. There was outrage on the site. Holy outrage against scandal. And they were all slowly purged. There are now nothing but "yes" men there. Those who are outraged are too scared to speak for fear of banning/ being piled up on.

To those FE who are lurking, I urge you to do what is right as Spouse did, publicly condemn the scandal, delete your account there and post on a board that will be edifying to your faith and not a hindrance to it.

Certain posters on the FE board, as liberals do, actually argued that it doesn't matter what the owners do in their personal lives. That is separate from the Forum. Unbelievable. this is the same argument as Bill Clinton's supporters made. As I said, so many of these people are liberals, it is sad.

It is not like the owners are repentant reformed public sinners.  They justify what they did, claim there is no sin or scandal, and attack those who are justly outraged. Sadly there is no insight there.

Instead of quoting Malachi Martin, Quis should read this article to perhaps get some insight into the mindset of those who are trying to help him by admonishing his sin.


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