{"id":13202,"date":"2013-05-14T15:14:41","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T21:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/?p=13202"},"modified":"2014-12-29T15:42:40","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T22:42:40","slug":"pope-francis-satan-always-rips-you-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2013\/05\/pope-francis-satan-always-rips-you-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis: Satan Always Rips You Off"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Live for yourself!<\/strong> Lookin\u2019 out for number one!<\/strong> Do unto others before they do it to you first!<\/strong> Greed is good.\u00a0<\/strong> Survival of the fittest.\u00a0<\/strong> He who has the gold, rules.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

These sentiments are how we make a little hell of our time here on earth. <\/strong>They enable us to lie, steal, cheat and destroy everything that gives real satisfaction, meaning and purpose to our lives.<\/p>\n

The underlying worldview for so many of the abuses trendy fringies are pushing on our society have at their base a Me Only, I\u2019m All That Matters value system. <\/strong>This leads us to believe that children are not people but commodities that we can design, kill, exploit, abuse and indoctrinate at our pleasure. It\u2019s the force that empowers the infidelities, battering and incests that change home from a sanctuary into a place of dread.<\/p>\n

We want what we want when we want it, and we are so verbally gifted that we can make up stories that allow us to convince ourselves that our wants and desires are somehow a manifestation of the common good. <\/strong>We are destroying ourselves from the inside out as a people, a nation and a culture with the excesses of I want it and I will have it and I don\u2019t accept any argument to the contrary.<\/p>\n

Narcissism reigns in a devil-dominated world.<\/p>\n

\u201cEat of the fruit, and you will not die,\u201d Satan told the woman in his famous first lying truth. \u201cYou will not die,\u201d he said. He didn\u2019t add that one word; he didn\u2019t say, \u201ctoday.\u201d \u00a0\u201cTake, eat, and you will not die today<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGod is a liar,\u201d he implied, and the woman along with the man after her, bought the lying truth.<\/p>\n

We have not progressed in our centuries of \u201cprogress\u201d from that initial sin. We still listen to the lying truths of Satan, and we are still destroyed by them.<\/p>\n

Glittery promises of something that passes for life abundant are what he offers. <\/strong>Do as you please. Lie to yourself and anyone stupid enough to listen to you about the harm your selfishness does. Lie to everyone around you, including, ultimately, yourself, and do as you please. Do it, not because it\u2019s right or fair or because you are being honest with anyone, including yourself, about the consequences. Do it because it pleases you to do it and you are the only arbiter of right and wrong that you accept.<\/p>\n

\u201cSatan is a liar and the father of lies,\u201d Jesus told us.<\/p>\n

The other end of the devil\u2019s empty promises is a nothingness, an absolute zero, that only those who\u2019ve looked off into that eternal futility can imagine.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pope Francis touched on this today during one of his wonderful morning homilies. \u201cWe must say that with Satan, the payback is rotten,\u201d he said, \u00a0\u201cHe always rips us off, Always!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Holy Father contrasted the selfish way of living that the devil promotes with the generous and loving way of life that Jesus exemplified. He taught that those who live just for themselves, are, in the end, like Judas, in that they lose everything, including their eternal life. He pointed out that Judas \u201cwas an idolator, attached to money \u2026 this attitude of selfishness developed into the betrayal of Jesus \u2026 he who isolates his conscience in selfishness, loses it in the end.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Every single one of us is tempted to put ourselves first, always and in everything. We are natural born self-lovers. <\/strong>But those who try to explain us with an over-arching theory of survival of the fittest as our only motivation find themselves stumped almost immediately by the enormous sacrifices human beings make for other people.<\/p>\n

I am not talking only about the things mothers will do to protect their children, or fathers who give their lives to protect their families. I am also referring to people who give their lives for total strangers, or those who, like St Thomas More, give their lives for the love of Christ.<\/p>\n

There is much more to us than you can find by dissecting us in an anatomy lab. We, alone of all the creatures on this planet, are moral beings. We understand what evil is, which is why we are capable of committing it.<\/strong> We, again alone of all the creatures on this planet, are responsible \u2014 to ourselves, to one another, to our society, our world and ultimately to God.<\/p>\n

God numbers the hairs of our heads. He remembers things we do that we forget ourselves as soon as we do them. We are not just grass that lives for a while and then withers and dies. We are part of eternity. As such, what we do balances on an eternal scale.<\/p>\n

\u201cSatan is a liar and the father of lies,\u201d Jesus said. The first such lie was and is that God Himself lies to us. From the Garden to today, the lie is the same. \u201cDo as you please. Because God lies when he tells you that if you eat of the fruit of your desires with no thought to the consequences to others, that you will surely die. That is not true. God just wants you to be unhappy. You will not die.\u201d<\/p>\n

That is the same lie he told the woman and it is missing the same word now as it was then. It is missing the word today.<\/p>\n

You will not die \u2026 today.<\/p>\n

From CNA<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Credit: Stephen Driscoll, CNA<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Vatican City, May 14, 2013 \/ 08:01 am (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>)<\/span>.- Christians who buy into Satan\u2019s temptation to live selfishly get swindled, while those who live life as a \u201cgift\u201d to others are immersed in love and the Church community, Pope Francis said.<\/span>

\u201cAnd, we must say, with Satan the payback is rotten. He always rips us off, always!\u201d the Pope emphasized as he contrasted the kind of selfish living that the devil promotes with the generous way of living Jesus exemplified.<\/span>

\u201cWhen a Christian begins to isolate himself, he also insulates his consciousness from the sense of community, from a sense of the Church, and from the love that Jesus gives us,\u201d he explained.<\/span>

\u201cInstead, the Christian who gives his life, what Jesus calls \u2018lost,\u2019 finds it and finds it in its fullness,\u201d the Pope preached May 14 in his homily on John 15.<\/span>

A group of employees from the Vatican Museums and some students of the Pontifical Portuguese College attended the 7:00 a.m. Mass in the chapel of St. Martha\u2019s residence.<\/span>

The Pope concelebrated the Mass with the Colombian Archbishop of Medell\u00edn, Ricardo Antonio Restrepo Tob\u00f3n.<\/span>

The Holy Father explained that wanting to live just for oneself is like Judas, who \u201cin the end loses\u201d his life. (Read more here<\/a>.)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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