2:2:23

Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen:

“As theologians dropped the demonic, the psychiatrists picked it up.”

This is one of the main theses of my forthcoming book, ACTING, the second volume of my Time Tells books, in which I examine the male double across disciplines and times.

Sheen, a theologian and philosopher, observed a very important transition of the demonic from the religious into the cultural sphere. From possessed to treatable.

First they stopped calling it demonic so they could de-stigmatize the diabolical, secularizing and normalizing it. Then the diabolical ceased to be a problem of the soul. Now it’s no longer a problem of the mind. In fact, it’s not any kind of problem at all. Now it is good to be evil.

FYI, YouTube bleeps/censors the word sin, as well as the word transcendence, whenever Sheen mentions it in his sermon.

If that’s not diabolic, I don’t know what is. We are living through the censorship of salvation. The divine.

Why should we see ourselves—or our bad deeds—as sinful anymore? Why should we ever feel shame? We don’t.

Sheen: “Was Satan for once in his life telling the truth—are all the kingdoms his?”