{"id":56,"date":"2011-06-14T11:41:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T11:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/badcatholic\/2011\/06\/the-crookedhart-emails-re-catholics-cheat\/"},"modified":"2011-11-17T10:08:26","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T15:08:26","slug":"the-crookedhart-emails-re-catholics-cheat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/badcatholic\/2011\/06\/the-crookedhart-emails-re-catholics-cheat.html","title":{"rendered":"The Crookedhart Emails &#8211; Re: Catholics Cheat!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Dear Rothoof,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTvmxS5BbtXnsRSqYqCaKq5Da6mvvI_wTQMMq0E4Tj823hem72u\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" src=\"https:\/\/t0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTvmxS5BbtXnsRSqYqCaKq5Da6mvvI_wTQMMq0E4Tj823hem72u\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"177\" height=\"284\"><\/a>The first thing I would like to strike from your mind is the idea that, since your man is Catholic, you have to change your game. While it\u2019s true, Catholics have infuriating quirks and delicious weaknesses that must be taken into account, the basics stay the same, the Infernal Catechism still applies: Make him sin.<\/p>\n<p>I took the liberty of checking your man\u2019s file, and I see that upon becoming Catholic, he has made some renewal, some promise to put a stop to the sexual sins that have so wonderfully made him miserable throughout his agnostic career. Excellent. There\u2019s nothing like a failed renewal to make a man doubt his new religion. See, there\u2019s a \u2018high\u2019 of conversion: These disgusting creatures actually get excited by Truth \u2013 for what I don\u2019t know, Falsehood being so much more sensible \u2013 and thus spend the first few months of Catholicism infuriatingly happy. Now this happiness (could I convey a retch at the very word in text? Bleaaauuuughhch) would be too disgusting to deal with if it were not so easily manipulated. If you can press him hard when he feels best, right now, in the midst of his happiness, and his wondering at the False Glories of Catholicism, then you run the excellent chance of making him feel unworthy of his new religion. That he, alone in his Church, is a disgusting man, and would do better to leave. But even if he is too convicted of Catholicism to leave \u2013 is he Rothoof? I have little idea of how seriously he takes his conversion \u2013 this feeling of worthlessness can still be effective, by becoming our favorite sin in an instant: Pride. Let him sit in the pew thinking only of his faults and failings, let him feel sorry for himself, let him look at the Priest and think, \u201cIf you knew my evil, you\u2019d cast me out,\u201d let him cringe at conversations with old, sickeningly holy women, let him think \u201cmea culpa, me, me, me, me, mea culpa\u201d until he dies. Heehee. But we are getting ahead of ourselves. Just continue to make him sin, now more than ever. Might I suggest increased temptation from his favorite pornography sites?<\/p>\n<p>But listen. There <em>is<\/em> an important difference we must take into account when attempting to seduce Catholics into ripping out their souls and trampling on them. \u00a0Catholics cheat. We managed to trick old Luther into playing fair, into beginning the end of Sacraments and sacramentals. It really was brilliant, because it has lead to millions playing our difficult game, to \u2018go out in the dark\u2019 with their Bibles, there own personal faith, and their own emotions. Granted, Our Enemy has been insufferably patient with them, and made a buffoon of himself by meeting them, and meeting them intimately, in their grating music and constant reading of that stupid, stupid, completely retarded and sickeningly foul human being C.S Lewis. I curse his name! Can you believe he had the gall, the absolute swaggering confidence to write a book mocking the correspondence of us Enlightened Demons, to instruct other humans on how to fool us? But never mind that. Catholics are given all sorts of footholds, railings, crutches and boosts to avoid us. They are called the Seven Cheats. Now, we\u2019ll go into a few of them in detail, but it\u2019s enough for now to know that you must avoid letting your man use these at all! Ever!<\/p>\n<p>So. I would advise that you downplay the importance of Catholicism. Let him think of it as another denomination of Christianity, not as the surest way to avoid us, and certainly not as the One True Church. Let him think of the Seven Cheats as culturally unique to Catholicism, as altar calls are to Baptists, but never, never for an instant let him believe that they are universally true, that is to say, real. Luckily for you, the nearest parish to him is one called \u2018Hope Church: A Catholic Community\u2019 and is virtually indistinguishable \u2013 aesthetically \u2013 from an evangelical Church, and the priest \u2013 quite the personality, the demon assigned to him has had great success so far \u2013 is virtually indistinguishable from an\u00a0Episcopal\u00a0pop-psychologist. Try to steer him towards that parish, and work hard to get him to ignore the Cheats.<\/p>\n<p>Yours,<br>\nCrookedhart<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3060433030054060305-2282399166464989763?l=badcatholicblog.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Rothoof, The first thing I would like to strike from your mind is the idea that, since your man is Catholic, you have to change your game. 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