Divine disdain, by the way, looks a lot like this.<\/span><\/div>\nHere\u2019s what I think, take from it what you will. Being evil acknowledges God. You can\u2019t actively and intentionally go against the will of God unless you know the will of God. To put it another way, the very act of intentional sinning admits that you are a sinner, and this, my friends, is something God wants very much. Thus, sinning like a boss, going hard by saying, \u201cI know it\u2019s wrong but I\u2019m going to do it anyways\u201d, while it may very well lead you to hell, it might just as well lead you to conversion. Not being lukewarm in sin leaves room for God; it admits his majesty while defying it. It sets an ultimatum, it declares war against God, and the wonderful, beautiful truth is that God is very good at winning wars.<\/p>\n
Compare that sin with the wannabe sinners that we tend to be. When we are faced with the choice to sin we don\u2019t very often say \u201cI know God wants me to do otherwise, but I don\u2019t care, I\u2019m doing this\u2026\u201d or \u201cI know there is objective morality, and don\u2019t give a damn about it\u2026\u201d rather we justify our sins, essentially becoming the arbiters of our own morality. This cuts God out of the equation. We don\u2019t set ourselves at opposition with God, we become gods: the oldest, shittiest sin around. We say things like \u201cI was forced into this situation\u2026\u201d or \u201cWell if you\u2019d have been there you would have done the same thing\u2026\u201d or my personal favorite \u201cThe woman made me do it!\u201d ( I actually use that a lot. 20 miles over the limit, officer? Ah, you see, \u2019twas the woman made me do it.) How can we open to conversion if our very sin, our very rebellion, is a denial of sin and rebellion? In his masterpiece Heretics, Chesterton faults modern day heretics for not believing in their own heresy, for having a snarky sort of \u201coh-aren\u2019t-I-so-heretical\u201d attitude, not the old-school \u201cI\u2019m-right-and-everyone-else-is-wrong\u201d heresy. The same can be said of sin. Our very sin is very weak.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/t3.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQbK5sOlZsLLNiotyHzqBQxKQ-KSq3YTErUfnxzlhv-2TSp7mjWqA\")
<\/a>Do you think St. Paul would have been knocked off his horse if his motto had been, \u201cWell I have my morality and everyone else has their own, and I\u2019m just practicing mine.\u201d Do you think Francis Collins<\/a> might have converted at the sight of a waterfall if his atheism had been lukewarm? If you didn\u2019t click on my oh-so-tantalizing link to Vlad the Impaler, do. The truth that the author lightly touches on is that it is much more likely and sensible that Dracula would accept Christ and convert then that Nancy Pelosi ever will. The difference between them is certainly not their physical appearance, it is that one went hard, while the other stayed lukewarm. As we speak, our culture is in danger of being spat out of the mouth of God. If we acted like real human beings and not justification-robots, we would say \u201cit is alright to kill babies for\u00a0convenience.\u201d How I wish we would be honest like this! How I wish we would go hard in our sin, and kill babies with guns. But we have nothing but weakness in our taste for murder; we wash our hands, say that a baby is not a person \u2013 that elusive and ever-evolving definition \u2013 while in the womb, and can thus be killed halfway out of the womb, etc. etc. We \u2013 by being weak \u2013 block out the chance for a conversion. If abortions were performed by guillotine then there would be hope for conversion, hope for revolution, hope for outrage. But abortions are performed by a potent relativism and deadly evasion. So to go back to a previous point, yes, Unitarianism and all it entails has killed many more people than those going hard in their sin.<\/p>\nNow for the disclaimer. I\u2019m not advocating the practice of all-out evil. I am advocating that, when we are going to sin, we be as honest with ourselves as any other time. I think, I hope and I pray that this practice will make it much more difficult to sin. For us Catholics, there\u2019s something about saying \u201cI\u2019m actively opposing God and inviting his wrath into my life\u201d that makes doing that<\/em> with that girl\/guy seem less appealing.
\nSo there you are. In all things go hard. In all things be strong. God is saying, \u201cLook, I give you these commandments, I give you this Church, I give you these things to live for. Accept them or reject them, but whatever you do, go hard.\u201d<\/p>\nIf there\u2019s anything I want you to take from anything I\u2019ve written so far it\u2019s this post. Many apologies for it\u2019s lateness, but I haven\u2019t been able to write it like I wanted to.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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