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The Most Unsatisfying Sin? | Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J. · The Catholic Current

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  What if I told you there are people who know exactly
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  Exactly how to turn you into an addict. Would you believe that? Is that even possible?
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  Well, it really is back in the 70s
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  There was a psychologist named Howard Moskowitz and he found something called the bliss point
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  What's that?
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  well
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  he found with food if you get just the right texture and
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  Mixture of salt and fat and sugar
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  you can have these great big dopamine blasts these experiences of pleasure and
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  You can have craving for more and more and it bypasses the experience of fullness
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  Now imagine you're a snack manufacturer. You said oh my gosh. Tell us more about that
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  That's what we want people who can't stop eating our
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  Junk food
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  Well, according to legend, he was a consultant for a very major snack manufacturer who spent ten million dollars
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  Back when that was a lot of money
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  In a couple of years to research the bliss point for a certain type of chip now
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  I don't want to name names, but I will suggest
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  That long ago there was a very famous comedian who eventually on this account became a very famous
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  Talk show host and he would make his commercials for this particular type of chips
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  And then he said something that was as insidious as it wasn't genius. It's a crunch all you want. We'll make more
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  see that is the rallying cry of
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  Every pusher of everyone who wants to exploit an addict you can have all you want
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  Will make
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  more so the problem was with this ultra processed snack chip was you had the bonus of whoa that tastes good you
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  Had the craving more more more but you never had the bonus of that feeling of fullness of
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  Satisfaction not to mention you didn't get much in the way of nutrition either now imagine
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  You're in the world of CS Lewis and the screw tape later. It says famous
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  Satirical manual for how demons tempt imagine the demons are looking at the bliss point
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  That place where you crave more and never feel full. So, you know what?
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  We had to do that
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  not with chips, but with sex
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  Is that even possible stay with me got a story to tell I'm Jesuit father Robert McCaig
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  We're hosting every day at the Catholic current coming to you from the station of the cross Catholic Media Network
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  Let's take a closer. Look glad you're here. You know that recently I've been doing an on-again off-again series
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  Regarding the seven deadly sins. It's time that we talk about
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  lust
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  Lust is a sexual craving for something that God did not provide for now
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  chastity is the universal obligation and really
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  Liberation to live human sexuality according to your state in life
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  we can talk about the details of that another time and
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  When you want something outside of the bounds of what God had provided for you, that's lost now
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  let's take that idea of the bliss point of
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  Stimulating a desire for something that feels good that doesn't satisfy that generates
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  dramatic craving and there is just
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  never enough and
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  all those pushers out there saying
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  Crunch all you want will make more. So let's take that idea of lust which is
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  really the
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  unsatisfying sin
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  Because you never get to the point of as they say in Latin
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  Satisfaction a to be made full to be made complete. No one ever says. Oh, please couldn't possibly have more lust
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  No, I'm full. Thank you. I've had my last quotient for the day
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  You know Saturday's my cheat day
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  But during the week can't
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  It's not how people work now
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  Imagine working at a formula for a lost addiction would how would you do it?
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  Well, that's what pornography is especially electronic pornography
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  Pornography is like those ultra processed snack foods with the bliss point
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  There is the surge. There's the craving there's
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  no fulfillment and
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  There is an
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  endless supply
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  The attic never has to run out
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  Now any priest will tell you that he's worked with a very many people who've tragically been involved with addiction
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  young and old men and women sadly sadly and all these folks would tell you the same story that it leaves you in
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  more pain with greater
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  loneliness and
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  Desolation and despair than before you started and yet they seem
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  Not to be able to stop
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  That's a tragedy and that is a really diabolical trick and I know
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  That one of the ways the devil works against us
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  His endgame is to have us betray the first commandment the primacy of God by manipulating us
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  Through the sixth commandment through lust through sexual sin
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  so if God forbid you are caught up in the pornography trap the pornography cycle of
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  Addiction or someone you love is there is help. I'm going to recommend to you Steve Bacorni of
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  freedom coaching
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  It's a Catholic
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  apostolate that has a great track record of
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  getting people free from the chains of lust and the addiction that is fed by
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  Pornography and if you want me to do some further reflections on the link between
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  The devil wanting to destroy the first commandment by manipulating the sixth commandment
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  Let me know at the comment section below or write me at the station of the cross comm slash ask father
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  Meanwhile think on these things today take him to prayer and talk about it with those you love
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  Go in peace and please do pray for me for I am a sinner
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  Thanks for watching today, I release new videos on Mondays and Wednesdays check out the archives for more videos
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  You can listen to my podcast the station of the cross.com and you can find my written work at herald of the gospel
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  org, see you next time