Tyranny of Feelings

[@truecatholic1]

Satanists have one "commandment:" "Do what thou wilt." Taking emotions as the rule of action corresponds perfectly with this EVIL.

[@truecatholic1]

Marriage is defined by the Catholic Church and is a natural and divine institution. Evil people have attempted to corrupt it. This appears to have started in the 1990s.

[@slickmechanical]

It started way before that. In the 1930s the Anglican communion allowed their faithful to use contraception to space children and this neutered the primary purpose of matrimony. This was the first wound in the institution, as if marriage is not primarily for procreation then it is for making the spouses happy. This inversion destroys marriage as if the spouses arent happy then they should find someone else who does. After this the pill made it worse and following on that came abortion and no-fault divorce in the 1970s. Gay "marriage" is only the latest development in the war of attrition on the family.

[@peace-and-quiet]

Whoa...it began way before that.

[@truecatholic1]

@peace-and-quiet I am talking about "gay marriage." I don't doubt that you are correct, but the 1990s were significant. That was when "progress" was made in law dictionaries. Feminism has been alleged to have started around 1791.

[@louis-vd3ur]

Emotions are what make us human. Ignoring that is pathological. Our temperaments frame our world, our bodies influence our souls through habit. We cannot deny feeling....Christ didn't

[@christianbenedict4861]

Either we are a slave of our flesh or we are not. That’s fundamental Catholic teaching

[@epachecojr1976]

Living and leading with our emotions leads to relativism and a path of Sin and destruction. If one places truth and logic first and then feelings to follow then we are on the right path. Jesus is the Logos which is the root word of Logic. Also Jesus is the TRUTH THE WAY AND THE LIFE. Amen

[@JanelleJames-l2t]

Hey, I don't think the priest is saying to IGNORE our feelings, and you are right, Christ did not. It's not about becoming feelingless robots. Christ wants us to truly know ourselves, which means intercepting and acknowledging every emotion, their root causes, implications, the movements of our hearts. All the priest is saying is, yes, feel all your feelings, but it would be a MISTAKE TO LET THEM RULE YOU. Your emotions will be a tyrannical master, is all he is saying. This is following the science of the saints. All the priest is saying is while you feel your feelings authentically, you must subordinate them to the will of God. Everything, your whole life, every part of you, must be subordinated to God's will, including your emotions. When you do this, everything gets placed in its proper order, including your feelings. And back to your point about Christ: He felt more acutely than any human his feelings during the Agony in the Garden. He did not ignore them, He felt them passionately, which is why He suffered so much in this Agony. Yet, did He let them rule Him? No, while not ignoring His agony, He placed all He felt under the Will of God, and accepted the Cup. This is a model for us. Feel it, feel deeply, but know that those feelings are not to influence our actions because they are not our master, God is. Sorry for the long writing 😫, I need to practice this myself!