Seven Deadly Sins of the Undeclared Sinner

Undeclared Sinner

• someone who has yet to acknowledge his status as a fallen creature
• see also: hypocrite

Witnesses

I felt for the tormented whirlwinds

Damned for their carnal sins

Committed when they let their passions rule their reason.

- Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, Hell, Inferno: Canto V

I understood that unto such a torment

The carnal malefactors were condemned,

Who reason subjugate to appetite.

(H.W. Longfellow translation)

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In one sense, and that the eternal sense, the thing is plain. The answer to the question, ‘What is Wrong?’ is, or should be, 'I am wrong'. Until a man can give that answer his idealism is only a hobby. - GKC, Letter to the “Daily News”, August 16, 1905, “What is Wrong”. H/T Mike Miles @ The Society of G.K. Chesterton

In an earlier post, yours truly wrote:

It's one thing to be a Catholic who repents of his or her sins (and confesses those sins in the confessional) and resolves to avoid near occasions of sin. It is quite another to obstinately refuse to acknowledge and repent of those very public sins as such - e.g., support for the destruction of innocent pre-born human lives - and pretend that, at the end of the day, one's conscience is free of culpability after either standing idly by or by enacting laws and policies that permit a most heinous act against innocent pre-born human life.

And elsewhere, in Pondering the Penitential Rite of Divine Worship during the Eucharistic Revival, a paraphrase of the priest's or deacon's invitation to make the General Confession:

The priest could say to us, "You have lied to yourself and God by sinning; do not lie now. God awaits you, His beloved child, and calls you to abandon your faults and return home, to draw closer to Him and be welcomed once again into His loving embrace. Speak truthfully, therefore, about what you have done. God sees all. But how will you change unless you admit to that lingering effect on you, the drag of concupiscence, and expose your need for God's grace to be forgiven by Him and to live freely as children of God?"

What is keeping us from living freely as children of God?

Pride (superbia)? I am what I am because of what I have, i.e., that which I possess.

Avarice (avaritia)? It's not enough to have what I have.

Envy (invidia)? I want what you have, i.e., that which belongs to you. I fear not having want I want to possess.

• the struggle aroused by envy has three stages: during the first stage, the envious person attempts to lower another's reputation; in the middle stage, the envious person receives either "joy at another's misfortune" (if he succeeds in defaming the other person) or "grief at another's prosperity" (if he fails); and the third stage is hatred because "sorrow causes hatred" (Aquinas, Of Envy)

Wrath (ira)? I despise you for having what you have.

Lust (luxuria)? I'll do whatever it takes to get what you have.

Gluttony (gula)? I can never have enough. I am possessed by what I possess and the need to possess even more.

Sloth (acedia, tristitia)? I despise myself for having nothing and for wanting what you have.

To have and to hold

In many ways, the deadly sins are an inversion, a displacement, a corruption of true covenant. The seven are a library of fraud. A covenant is real and true when freely entered into, and is freeing and therefore good because it is real and true.

Groom: I,____, take thee,_____, to be my wedded Wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part, according to God's holy ordinance; and thereto I plight thee my troth. 

Bride: I,_____, take thee,_____, to be my wedded Husband, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love, cherish, and to obey, till death us do part, according to God's holy ordinance; and thereto I give thee my troth.

The spouses-to-be, who are the ministers of the Sacrament of Matrimony, enter freely into a covenant of love. To have her once meant to be present to her intimately, solemnly, reverently, joyfully, lovingly, to love her and share all, body and soul, constantly desiring her good and her well being. To hold her meant to protect her, to walk with her, to rejoice with her in good times, to suffer with her in rough times, to provide for her and the family household, and to uphold her in truth, goodness and beauty for the salvation of her soul. To have him formerly meant to cherish him for who he is, to honour him and be honoured by him. To hold him meant to call him to his better self, to offer him her better self, to be joined with him in truth and goodness, forged together in purpose, to be bound to him in love as he is bound to her in a lifegiving, life-loving, lifelong shared immersion in God's blessing.

Nowadays, to be held is to be trapped in illusion, held back from achieving one's potential, to serve an artificial societal imperative. To have is to rob, and to be robbed of dignity and, for children, to be robbed of innocence.

When undeclared sinners - e.g., medical and mental health practitioners - become agents of evil... .

Children - who should be cherished and protected, and mentored in common sense - are too often subject to the whims of monstrous sinners who pretend to care for children more than their own parents do.

The following personal stories represent a few of the thousands of young people who have been harmed by deadly propaganda and willful negligence by clinics, doctors and indifferent and indulgent parents. Rather than practicing medicine and resisting pressure from extremists, health practitioners and social scientists routinely abandon reason and create tragedy after tragedy.

• Cat Cattinson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOZgT2wSIyQ
• Jalisa Vine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IawS_e36ZnM
• Sinead Watson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyMbTd1crgs
• Helena Kerschner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ibq3ld087Y4

Young people are susceptible to and possessed by a contagion, a shared toxic illusion saturating social media that targets teenagers, that plays on emotions and robs youth of their natural and supernatural identity, and which solidifies dissonance in their lives. A confusion of being has seized many young people. Attempts to alleviate that confusion but indulge delusion only make a person prone to further manipulation, and enable an individual to lose himself in an alphabet soup of identities, identities that are frequently propped up by a deception, a Luciferian agenda, that is a cancer to the soul: a promise of personal fulfillment, well being and power to be anyone and anything one imagines, without cost, without suffering. Such identities are not sustainable. They are terminal, spiritually and physically.

1970s Redivivus

To ignore the danger of gender ideology and to promote body-mind destroying medications and surgeries is to share the naivety and shame of those social scientists who, in the 1970s and 1980s, enabled serial pedophiles by diagnosing them as reformable and normal after treatment, thus enabling them to destroy countless children's and young adults' lives. Today, again, social scientists, along with the legacy media that hosts a twisted Hollywood morality, bear a massive share of the responsibility for attempting to - and in many cases succeeding at - subverting family relationships and annihilating children's lives. Activists have enrolled an army of supporters - teachers, physicians, advocacy groups, social media influencers, politicians - to alienate young people from their families, and to sacrifice children and adolescents to the gods of this age.

Internment

Western societies are toxified by an pseudo-intellectual pandemic enabled by policies and popular idioms founded on a basic ideology, that sevenfold ideology described above. By murdering reason, and by elevating disordered passions in an attempt to replace reason, to fill the void in people's souls, an extreme liberal overclass has crafted a pit into which casualties continually fall. Woke sentries are constantly bullying others to accept vice as virtue. Enough is enough.

Anyone who rejects his susceptibility to possession by those vices, those deadly sins, who fails to acknowledge and resist his disordered passions, is chaining not only himself but likely dragging others into the same pit, a prison cell that gets smaller and smaller with time, crushing the soul against its walls and forcing what's left of the person through the disfiguring, unyielding iron bars of perverse ideologies. Only God's grace can free a man from a prison of his own making, or that of another's imposition. No prison can hold the person who accepts Jesus' invitation to salvation and newness of life.

The undeclared sinner is miserable, and is practically oblivious to her most lamentable condition. She trusts nothing but her idols, her self-gods - power, prestige, profit - that accompany her as empress of her city of Dis: dis-connect, dis-appointment, dis-order and dis-ease. She orbits a world polluted by ideology. She is the sole inhabitant of that world, and does not realize she is suffocating by inhaling its toxic atmosphere. As long as she refuses to admit her dire need, to declare her status as sinner-loved-by-God, she will remain isolated, trapped, held by illusion. As long as she refuses to acknowledge she is a sinner in need of God's grace, she remains dangling in a soul-corroding blandness.

That's the bad news. And now for the Good News of Jesus Christ.

Holy Gospel according to Saint John 3:16 - 21

For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God sent the Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him. He who believes in him is not condemned; he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one who does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who does what is true comes to the light, that it may be clearly seen that his deeds have been wrought in God.