We live in a hyper-sexualized world. Sex is used to sell products everywhere we look. On TV, on billboards, in stores. From 30' tall Victoria's Secret models to lacy thongs and undies that read "Juicy" in the little girl's department at Wal-Mart; it's everywhere. It's in the public eye. It's the social norm. And we expose ourselves and our children to it every day. Is it any wonder that the pornography industry is one of the largest industries in the world, rivaling big-energy and tobacco? Are we shocked to hear that eight and nine year olds are performing oral sex on each other? Are we appalled that adolescent girls are having anal sex so that they can say that they are still virgins? Of course we are! But then we turn a blind eye to all of the public marketing of sex. Hell, even the most sociopathically right-wing conservative Christian I know is defending Hasbro's phallic faux pas, saying that it is "us, not them." We allow this to happen. Actively, passively, consciously or subconsciously, we are all the perpetrators and we are all the victims.
With that, I give you this article...
by on 2014-09-04 •
Listers, if a person invites lust into his heart, the daughters of
lust will soon follow and nest deep within it. A vice is not a
single act. Both vice and virtue are habits. Habits are described by both
Aristotle and Aquinas as a species of the category of “quality,” and qualities
are difficult to change. When a person habituates themselves to the evil that
is lust, that repetitive action changes the quality of their soul. Lust is a
vice that can easily consume a person. The consequences are dire. Our Lady of
Fatima proclaimed, “more souls go to Hell because of sins of the flesh than for
any other reason.” Understand
the vice of lust and her daughters so that the Catholic soul may stand guard
against them...
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