A reader writes:
Here’s a couple of out-there sister sites from The Vigilant Citizen, that Spirit Daily and other “vigilant” Catholic websites have linked to in the past.
Who has time to compile stuff like this? People who don’t have families, homes and kids to take care of, I’m fairly certain.
Maybe, though paranoia is not confined only to the childless. However, I suspect you are right. The pressures of earning a living tend to force us toward certain behaviors and away from this time-wasting fretting over shadowy forces of evil. The irony is that Satan is quite as happy with those who neglect obedience to God in order to sup on the fear of devils as he is with those who dabble in the occult. In the end, it comes down to the same thing: prioritizing the amount of time you spend focusing on the devil over the amount you spend focusing on God. The point is to distract you from God. If that is accomplished by devil-fearing rather than devil-worshiping, Old Scratch doesn’t care, just as long as it’s not God-loving.