Trans as idolatry |
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The Socialist Rifle Association is one of the far-left militia groups that train transgender and Antifa-linked radicals to kill. |
Child predation, whether sexual or violent, as with transgenderism, is not just a psychological issue but a spiritual one. When we ask, “Who could do such a thing?” with regard to violence, self-mutilation, and abuse, we have to remind ourselves that it is Satan himself who entices his targets to accomplish unimaginable things through his various strategies of shame, guilt, self-hatred, envy, rage, and unchecked desire for gratification, among many other diabolical tools tailor-made for the torture and destruction of human beings.
The horrors of the transgenderism epidemic cannot be simply comprehended as a sociological or psychological phenomenon, although we might be tempted to think in such terms. In recent decades, we have desired to lean more and more on the field of psychology to address issues that are not just psychological but also spiritual. Gaudium et Spes repeatedly praises “Advances in biology, psychology, and the social sciences” as means to achieve progress in human development and well-being. While these modern sciences are useful, they are nonetheless limited. It is true, spirituality cannot fully compensate for or replace psychology, but the reverse is true as well! We attribute psychological causes to spiritual maladies at our peril: the very real danger of explaining away the devil.
Can we not see the tragic consequences of this in our society today and, indeed, in our Church? We must address both the human and the demonic in confronting evil. There’s no other way around it! As Shakespeare put it, “Sometimes we are devils unto ourselves”; and yet, at the same time, “There lurks a still and dumb-discursive devil / That tempts most cunningly. But be not tempted” (Troilus and Cressida, Act IV, Scene IV). The sexual revolution is doubtless part of the wider spiritual battle in our world—a battle that involves God and man, angels and demons. To the person caught up in the maelstrom of sexual dysphoria, I exhort them in the words of Sacred Scripture: “Our struggle is not with flesh and blood, but with the principalities, with the powers, with the world rulers of this present darkness, with the evil spirits in the heavens” (Ephesians 6:12). As St. Paul suggests, the evil spirits long for us to abuse “flesh and blood,” whether our own or another’s, rather than confront the real culprit: Satan himself. That’s a good reminder to us all! As to our response to this tragedy, we must be reminded that Satan is the instigator of hatred, as he is also the designer of murder, self-mutilation, and abuse. The last thing we want to do is respond to senseless hate with senseless hate. No. That is what the enemy wants. Rather, we must, as Christ commands, love our neighbor. And we must love ourselves, too, just as God made us. Furthermore, our society and our Church must address transgenderism—and the political movement associated with it—for what it truly is: a tragic affliction of Satan’s wicked design, inflicted out of hatred for humanity and for the ruin of souls. May the Divine Assistance be always with us. May God have mercy on the miserable soul of that deeply confused and afflicted man who perpetrated this horrible crime. And may those poor slain innocents be taken up to the loving arms of Jesus by their guardian angels. |
St Francis of Assisi, please pray for the world