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  • Alaskaball [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    4·
    1 month ago

    Thank you for sharing these recent events and feelings you’ve been having. I hope it helps get some of the weight off your shoulders. While I didn’t grow up with Catholic trauma, probably by virtue of a language barrier and genuinely kind and good priests, nuns, and old parish grannies, I will admit I do feel bouts on the rare occasion of somewhat to fairly strong religious fervor and random levels of guilt over what I’ve been taught to believe are sins and that I haven’t gone to confession for decades and its all piled up. Honestly if it wasn’t for my own personal convictions that the righteousness of communism aligns with the righteousness of catholicism, and I guess what I’d call ideological devotion to the ideology, I’d probably be quite discombobulated every time the wellspring of child indoctrination into the faith swells forth. That said I do still get bothered by the guilt of what’s concidered mortal and venial sins in the Catechism, but I’m hoping that my own small work in my party building towards liberation of the human race, along side whenever I get around to actually going to confession, will at least earn me a nice rest in purgatory while I work off the rest of the spiritual debt I accrue.

    Well I hope some good rest comes to you soon at least. Everyone deserve a good rest.

    • DisabledAceSocialist [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      5·
      1 month ago

      Thank you. I just don’t understand why this keeps happening to me. I was brought up catholic but it was literally just church and sunday school once a week, apart from that no pressure. I really think I have a mental illness and I need help but I know if I ask for mental health treatment I’ll be on the waiting list for years and then just get dismissed. Or drugged up and i don’t want any more meds.

      • Alaskaball [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
        5·
        1 month ago

        That is indeed tough to deal with. The only thing I can think of off the top of my head that can maybe help lighten the fervor is learning that what youve experienced in life according to the catholic theological analysis of Thomas Aquinas in his work Summa Theologica, is that theft is not a mortal sin nor is taking what is needed to survive concidered theft.

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        I answer that Things which are of human right cannot derogate from natural right or Divine right. Now according to the natural order established by Divine Providence, inferior things are ordained for the purpose of succoring man’s needs by their means. Wherefore the division and appropriation of things which are based on human law, do not preclude the fact that man’s needs have to be remedied by means of these very things. Hence whatever certain people have in superabundance is due, by natural law, to the purpose of succoring the poor. For this reason Ambrose [Loc. cit., Article 2, Objection 3] says, and his words are embodied in the Decretals (Dist. xlvii, can. Sicut ii): “It is the hungry man’s bread that you withhold, the naked man’s cloak that you store away, the money that you bury in the earth is the price of the poor man’s ransom and freedom.”

        Since, however, there are many who are in need, while it is impossible for all to be succored by means of the same thing, each one is entrusted with the stewardship of his own things, so that out of them he may come to the aid of those who are in need. Nevertheless, if the need be so manifest and urgent, that it is evident that the present need must be remedied by whatever means be at hand (for instance when a person is in some imminent danger, and there is no other possible remedy), then it is lawful for a man to succor his own need by means of another’s property, by taking it either openly or secretly: nor is this properly speaking theft or robbery.

        Simply put, what you’re doing is okay. Just because stuffy and cruel British laws say otherwise, they’re nothing but human laws that interfere with the natural and divine right to not go hungry. Not mentioning ideologically speaking as well.