Atheists At Christmas

I am pained to see in the media that a digital sign saying "Who need Christ during Christmas? Nobody"  [1] is in New York's Times Square.  This sign was posted by the current president of American atheists David Silverman.[2]

I am pained because Christ is being crucified again, posthumously.  These atheists are not unconscious of Christ because they are expressly rejecting Christ with knowledge and intellect.  However, they could be unconscious of Satan and have become its minions.  Evidences of that are in the ways they celebrate Christmas, with different kinds of entertainment, parties, trees full of ornaments and colorful blinking lights, all without the slightest attention being paid to the Holy Family.

Evidence is also in the giving of certain gifts that bring momentary smiles to faces, smiles that fade away when such gifts are no longer fashionable, broken or technologically embarrassing to own.  Even gifts that are practical are temporal on the one hand and a nuisance when they are given year after year on the other [3]  All these material things can be good but are all tainted in one way or another, before, during and after their creation, by Satan to bring ruin to life and all things that sustain it. [4], [5]  Even receiving things that are produced by Mother Nature and are wholesome have nothing to do with Christmas.

Christmas is about Christ and His birth, His humility and His saving grace.  With the birth of Christ, we have been given a new Adam, and a new Eve, the Mother of Jesus, the Blessed Virgin Mary.  They are the Ones to give us all a chance at a new life.    At the crucifixion, Christ had shed His Holy blood for the redemption of Sin and its variations.  Upon His resurrection, the living Christ has given all hope for an eternity with God.  These are the true gifts of Christmas.  They are the reasons for the celebrations.  Nothing else, not the sights and the sounds, the shopping and the gift-giving or the food and the drinks, matters.

Those who say that nobody needs Christ for Christmas, or at any other time for that matter, have taken their gifts for granted and have exercised their Free Will in favor of Satan.  This Oratio Fatima is for them:

Domine Iesu, dimitte nobis debita nostra, salva nos ab igne inferni, perduc in cealum omnes animas, praesertim eas, quae misericordiae tuae maxime indigent. [6]




[1] http://pix11.com/2013/12/09/atheist-billboard-in-times-square-deletes-christ-from-christmas/#axzz2nPrq6xdA
[2] When I saw him on television, he does not look evil.  Perhaps he had given up fighting his battles with Satan and Satan now owns him and has made him its spokesman.  It is my hope that one day he will look into the mirror and see God waiting patiently for his return and reject the call of Satan.
[3] For example, how many cappuccino makers does one need?  How many sweaters and how much bling can one wear?  Perhaps an exception could be made for a fine wine that improves with age but arguably that is a gift of God, a transubstantiable drink that can become the blood for Christ for the forgiveness of sins, but when abused, can lead to death and destruction.  Having a discussion on alcoholism and drunk driving is not intended for this blog.
[4] For example, cell phones are a convenience and can be used for good, but how many different models and variations do people need, year after year?  Are they not driven by corporate greed?  Is greed not part of Satan's Original Temptation that led to Adam and Eve's Original Sin?  Is not the seemingly innocuous and respectable business concept of creating demand, when stripped of its euphemistic coating, equivalent to any of Satan's temptations that exploit man's Free Will and corrupts his desires?
[5] Matters that can be good are tainted by Satan before their creation are driven by greed (see [4] above); those tainted by Satan during their creation are also driven by greed by exploiting natural resources without compunction for profit; and those tainted by Satan after their creation raises toxicity in the soil and in the water when they leak chemicals during the recycling and decomposition processes in concentrations that ruin health and lives.
[6] http://www.thesacredheart.com/latpray.htm#n

The Unconscious Free Will

Free Will is an oft repeated theme in this blog.  The Free Will that has been referred to so far has been a conscious choice, meaning that when man is given a choice between good and evil [1], he has the freedom to arrive at a decision that is known fully to him.

The concept of the unconscious choice came to mind in the last few days and I am writing about it as it is taking shape.

First I wanted to know if unconsciousness exists, and I found support that it does.  "Unconscious processes are smart and adaptive throughout the living world, as Dawkins (1976) contended, and the psychological research evidence that has emerged since the time of his writing has confirmed that this principle extends to humans as well. In nature, the ‘‘unconscious mind’’ is the rule, not the exception." [2]

The question then is whether Free Will operated in the unconscious mind.  Without doing any research, let me just postulate that it does.  Free Will is part of God's perfection and it exists together with God.  Free Will is a gift from God and it is pervasive. [3]  It was given to angels before even Adam was created.  Having Free Will, Lucifer was able to disobey God and became Satan; similarly, Adam and Eve took advantage of it, ate the forbidden Apple and their Sin became the seed of all our sins.

While Lucifer, Adam and Eve had exercised their Free Will knowingly at those specific instances, man also exercises his Free Will with all his cognitive faculties intact under a variety of circumstances on a daily basis, but when man sometimes acts without having sufficient time to deliberate or by finding it unnecessary to deliberate [4] and at those times, man necessarily relies on his unconscious mind that propels him to act or not act.  Whether to act or not, or the nature of the act if action is chosen, all stems from Free Will.  Therefore, Free Will operates in the unconscious mind.

My conclusion, if true, has ramifications.  For instance, if those who live a life full of kindness and humility but are not consciously part of any organized religion, or a religion that is not Christian or Catholic, then under my theory, they would still be following the path of Jesus in their unconscious minds.  In their unconsciousness, their words of kindness become their prayers and their acts of humility are their expression of their love for neighbors. [5]  Conversely, those who are consciously and outwardly living a life of poverty, humility and charity but are not poor, humble or charitable with their time or their love, they have in their unconsciousness chosen freely to be under the influence of Satan to one extent or another. [6]




[1] Every moment we are confronted with such a choice.
[2] Quoted from the last paragraph of the conclusion of the Yale University report at:  http://www.yale.edu/acmelab/articles/Bargh_Morsella_Unconscious_Mind.pdf, accessed December 8, 2013.
[3] I have no proof but I believe all living things have Free Will perhaps with the exception of vegetation.
[4] The decision not to deliberate is a cognitive one.  An action that takes place without deliberation is, in my opinion, one that comes from the unconscious mind.
[5] I still like to think that I am Catholic even though in my opinion many of the Catholic churches are becoming more and more secularized and those who run them are succumbing to the inexorable influence of Satan with their hypocrisies.
[6] I would like to believe that those who have chosen to live contemplatively in Christ are living in poverty, humility and charity because they have no attachment to material things, act humbly in the service of others and are generous with their talents, time and love.

The Three Faces of Hope

Hope is an illusion of perfection and a desire for perfection, not Perfection itself. In this paragraph, Perfection is all that is good even though evil can also achieve perfection and when it does, it can be manifested in Greed, Hope's identical twin.

Hope must not be confused with Faith. Hope lives in the realm of uncertainty whereas Faith is unwavering. Hope induces stress; Faith eliminates it. Hope is the mirror image of Faith. They are as difficult to tell apart as they are different, like cubic zirconia and diamonds. The seller of Hope would like you to think that you are buying Faith.

Hope resides in the imagination. It is neutral, it is dreamy, has multiple layers, is priceless and when monetized, and way overpriced at every level. Hope is manipulative and can induce delusions of Perfection in good or in evil. Its identical twin, Greed, resides in the intellect. In the intellect, Greed is methodical, calculating and ruthless. It uses the intellect to destroy all that stands in its path. Faith, the most abstract face of Hope and the most elusive, resides in the heart and cannot be bought. At any point in time, Faith is either present or absent; there is no in between. When it is present, it is powerful. Its energy is constant; it creates and sustains inner peace. It is perfection in fulfillment.

The person, or an inner voice, that makes you think of Hope targets your imagination but what he or it really wants is your heart.

If Hope wins, then the heart is left with the image of Faith and all it can deliver with Hope in residence are insatiable desires and turmoil, but that is not the worst. The worst is when the evil twin of Hope emerges, and it will emerge in those who are without sufficient intestinal fortitude to contain Hope's burning desires. With Greed already residing in the intellect and now finding a second home in the Heart, you have become an official agent of Satan.

Life presents us with all three faces of Hope. In those epic battles between good and evil we see all three. The face of victory can be anyone of them and it is determined by will, Free Will.