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Even the Devils Cannot Stand Unnatural Vice

These wretches not only do not bridle this fragility (homosexuality), but do worse, committing that accursed sin against nature, and as blind and fools, with the light of their intellect darkened, they do not know the stench and misery in which they are. It is not only that this sin stinks before me, who am the Supreme and Eternal Truth, it does indeed displease me so much and I hold it in such abomination that for it alone I buried five cities by a divine judgment, my divine justice being no longer able to endure it.

This sin not only displeases me as I have said, but also the devils whom these wretches have made their masters. Not that the evil displeases them because they like anything good, but because their nature is angelic and causes them to loathe the sight of the actual commission of this enormous sin. They truly enough hurl the arrow poisoned with the venom of concupiscence, but when their victim proceeds to the actual commission of sin, they depart for the reason and in the manner that I have said.

Dialog of St. Catherine of Siena

 

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0 #3 Preston Allex 2011-06-03 16:06
Please check your source. If you are using a different English Translation (I used Algar Thorold's translation), please refer me to the translator's name and the section so that I can verify it. Thank you.
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0 #2 Preston Allex 2011-06-03 16:04
The only thing in the Dialog that is somewhat similiar (that I could find) is a part on the sin of sensuality. It mentions God as the Supreme Purity, and that the devils cannot endure the sight of such filthy actions, but there is so much added text in your article that takes those statements out of context. Or at the very least makes it look like St. Catherine wrote (for example) about the destruction of 5 cities, of which I could find no reference at all in the "Dialog".
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0 #1 Preston Allex 2011-06-03 16:03
I love these short and sweet messages that you publish and am completely in favor of all your work, but I struggle greatly with this posting. Not because I don't like it, but because I have read the Dialog and don't remember anything like what is written above. To me this undermines your credibility.
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