[kosta50]

This is really weird stuff, kosta. Does your church agree with you on this stuff

On the surface probably not, I will have to look into this more. But in principle yes. The Church always speaks of ever-present evil, teaches that we must blame ourselves first. So, the concept is there. Our resistance of "passions" and even "passion foods" is the reason behind rigorous fasting (no animal products; we have three 40-day fasts, we also fast fast every Wednesday and Friday, and have several other minor fasts, some 14 days or less, all in all about 180 days total in a year) The goal is: defeating temptation (i.e. resisting evil) by choice.

[kawaii]

On the surface probably not, I will have to look into this more. But in principle yes. The Church always speaks of ever-present evil, teaches that we must blame ourselves first. So, the concept is there. Our resistance of "passions" and even "passion foods" is the reason behind rigorous fasting (no animal products; we have three 40-day fasts, we also fast fast every Wednesday and Friday, and have several other minor fasts, some 14 days or less, all in all about 180 days total in a year) The goal is: defeating temptation (i.e. resisting evil) by choice.

I definitly concur that there is no passing off guilt on Satan. that reeks to me of the liberal 'its all everyone elses fault' mentality. I think God knew and intended there to be temptation...