So when you buy a sacrament, it will protect you from demons that lurk from every corner, but only for a short while; then you have to buy more sacraments and rituals to protect yourself from devils and even the big boss himself, Lucifer. Capisce?
Take baptism, that is just a starter pack sacrament to get you off the demons brought to you by your ancestors, but then you need the additional sacraments to defend you from the demons that you summon through every day life by doing things that anger God.
As the consecrated virgin explains:
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Take baptism, that is just a starter pack sacrament to get you off the demons brought to you by your ancestors, but then you need the additional sacraments to defend you from the demons that you summon through every day life by doing things that anger God.
As the consecrated virgin explains:
Quote:In families that are suffering from generational curses or that are involved in a lot of occult practices, why doesn't baptism free their infants from the power of demons?
The short answer is that I wouldn't be so quick to assume that baptism doesn't do this.
The sacrament of baptism itself has an exorcistic character, since, as the Catechism puts it: "baptism signifies liberation from sin and from its instigator the devil" (CCC 1237).
When a person is baptized, they -- or their parents or godparents on their behalf, if they are an infant and unable to speak for themselves -- promise explicitly to "reject Satan (…) and all his works."
Furthermore, the Rite of Baptism also contains a minor exorcism as part of the ritual.
Even beyond baptism, the other sacraments can have exorcistic effects, insofar as they free us from sin (such as in the sacrament of penance) and strengthen us against temptations and the lure of darkness. In fact, the sacraments in and of themselves are more powerful against Satan than the ritual for solemn exorcism.
The spiritual common sense around such things is that the baptized, who are delivered from the powers of darkness by their baptism, normally will not experience any extraordinary demonic afflictions unless they do something of their own free will to "open a door," such as attempting to engage in the supernatural through illicit means or committing certain serious sins.
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teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
