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Plus, a lot of what you call “charity” in the Catholic Church really doesn’t do God’s work, but even the opposite. I know all around the U.S. that Catholic Charities gives psychological counseling. I posted on this before. They use secular counselors who are exactly the same in terms of education and licensing as counselors everywhere else. They are bound to approve of and advocate for homosexuality and condone abortion. Now, I have had a lot of interest in psychology for decades, and have studied it extensively. It is a mix of true and error - a very dangerous mix in spiritual terms. At base, it has some natural truth to it, but it embraces atheistic naturalism and rejects Christian faith. After a lot of consideration of it for years, it seems to me that it is something that the Lord might allow temporarily in someone’s life out of mercy, like He might for a time overlook all the vices we can turn to in life to get us by. For Christians, though, we are to be transformed, to allow that, which means allowing the Lord to work the world out of us and to turn us towards Him more and more. So, psychology is not the highest help we can get, and in fact if we stick to it when the Lord is calling us to replace it with faith and to be transformed through knowing Him better, then it is most dangerous to us. And the Lord will use crises to get us to turn to Him (as the entire Bible shows us), but psychology in such cases will steer us away from God’s will and plan for us. And at bottom, it is built on secular humanism, the idea that we’re not sinners, just have victims with problems. Yet the Catholic Church doesn’t use crises and life struggles to bring people to God’s Word, but to psychology. And Catholic Charities finances it.

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32 posted on 08/27/2014 6:19:28 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: cloudmountain

It’s really not that long of a paragraph, is it? I happened to be writing on a library computer that was going to be shutting down in less than 20 seconds when I finished writing, so I didn’t have time for anything more. Is it also that important a matter, more important than even what’s said?


62 posted on 08/28/2014 4:23:24 PM PDT by Faith Presses On
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