{"id":8486,"date":"2013-09-12T15:04:25","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T15:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/09\/12\/the-role-of-concupiscence\/"},"modified":"2013-09-12T15:04:25","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T15:04:25","slug":"the-role-of-concupiscence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/09\/12\/the-role-of-concupiscence\/","title":{"rendered":"The Role of Concupiscence"},"content":{"rendered":"

The role of concupiscence in dimming our spiritual sight has long been recognized by many, among them, Plato, Augustine, and Pascal: "There are some who see clearly that man has no other enemy but concupiscence, which turns him away from God." (Pens\u00e9es<\/strong><\/em>, Krailsheimer #269, p. 110)  One wonders how much of the atheism of a Russell or a Sartre or an A. J. Ayer<\/a>  is the theoretical reflex of an inordinate love of this world and its flesh pots.<\/span><\/p>\n

Frequent the flesh pots and it may turn out the best you can do by way of a conception of God is that of a celestial teapot<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The role of concupiscence in dimming our spiritual sight has long been recognized by many, among them, Plato, Augustine, and Pascal: "There are some who see clearly that man has no other enemy but concupiscence, which turns him away from God." (Pens\u00e9es, Krailsheimer #269, p. 110)  One wonders how much of the atheism of a … Continue reading “The Role of Concupiscence”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[191,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism-and-theism","category-sex-love-lust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}