The other day, after a Mass reading that dealt powerfully and solemnly with expelling demons, a priest gave a homily warning against blaming the devil when we sin. "The devil made me do it. The devil made me do it." (Remember that comedian's line in the 1960s?) Too often, he pointed out, we attribute what we do to demons.
The point about Satan is well-taken: we can't blame him for everything we do (and choose) through free will. Our sins are our sins.
But there are certainly demonic temptations (we recall these particularly during Lent) and we suggest that by far the larger problem is that too often we are flip about the devil (no pun intended, Mr. Wilson); evil goes "unblamed" vastly more than it gets blamed (see the recent uproar over a candidate who dared to mention its workings)
Read more here: http://www.spiritdaily.com/evilchurch.htm
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