Hell Bound: Dissent & Dishonoring God

Posted on June 21, 2025 by Father Joe

What is heaven? Heaven is where we find God. Sin reflects a prevailing failure to love, either in hatred or indifference. The damned would not want any part of this love, either here on earth or in heaven. God is not a cherished part of their life. They might readily manipulate others, but they refuse to really care for their neighbor. What do saints and angels do in heaven? They worship God as the Holy, Holy, Holy. By contrast, if so-called Catholics cannot tolerate an hour a week at Sunday Mass, then why would they want to spend eternity at the nuptial banquet for the Lamb of God?

Those who reject the testimony of Scripture, dissenting from the teachings of the Church, already have one foot in hell. We are obliged to accept what has been revealed by God. We must obey the commandments. None of us should cast ourselves outside the pale of Christ, the one who is the Light of the World. What the children of darkness presume as enlightenment is in truth error and eternal night. While it is true that saints need not always be right, just holy; there must still be an assent from Catholics to the foundational truths and values of the faith. Otherwise, one is saying, “Not Thy will, but my will be done.” This is a critical contradiction to the kerygma, itself. One does not have to have a degree in theology but one should appreciate the creed and the commandments. Dissenters will often fashion a caricature of Jesus that is in contradiction to the one who appears in the New Testament and in the constant preaching of the Church. What dissenters fail to grasp is that “their Jesus” stands neither on the firm foundation of Scripture nor of Tradition. Those who would abandon the barque of Peter must seek refuge upon the worthless driftwood or flotsam of human whim and proximate pleasures. Instead of the moral base grounded upon natural and divine positive law, values emerge from a sham individualism that has no rudder other than the media and politics of secular humanism. The guideposts are literally the deadly sins. The worst of the lot is arguably pride as it most earned the ire of Christ against the pharisees. It makes a place for the other six sins. It poisons communion with God.