Day 276: Irreligion and Atheism

The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)

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🗓️ 3 October 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

We continue our examination of the First Commandment, unpacking irreligion and atheism. Fr. Mike highlights the different elements of irreligion, namely tempting God in words or deeds, sacrilege, and simony. He emphasizes that the sin of tempting God is easy to fall into when we are deeply troubled or afraid. Fr. Mike also spends time unpacking the many different aspects of atheism, and its impact on our world today. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 2118-2126.

This episode has been found to be in conformity with the Catechism by the Institute on the Catechism, under the Subcommittee on the Catechism, USCCB.

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Please note: The Catechism of the Catholic Church contains adult themes that may not be suitable for children - parental discretion is advised.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to The Catechism in a Year Podcast,
0:09.2	where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in Scripture and passed down to
0:13.6	the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a year is brought to you by Ascension.
0:17.0	In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering our identity
0:22.0	and God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. This is day 276
0:26.3	for Reading Paragraphs. 2118-2126, as always, I am using the Ascension Edition of the Catechism,
0:32.0	which includes the foundations of faith approach, but you can follow along with any
0:35.2	recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download your own
0:38.7	Catechism in your reading plan by visiting AscensionPress.com slash C-I-Y.
0:43.0	And you can click follow or subscribe to their podcast app for daily updates and daily
0:46.6	notifications. As I said, today's day 276 well done, reading Paragraphs 2118-2126. Yesterday,
0:52.4	we talked, of course, about divination and magic and superstition and idolatry. Today,
0:57.9	we're continuing this whole trend, but the ways in which we could put other gods before the Lord
1:04.2	God, or we might not place the Lord God in his place. So, we're talking today about
1:09.2	irreligion. We're talking about tempting God in words or deed, sacrilege,
1:13.3	semini, we're talking about atheism today. Tomorrow we'll look at agnosticism and some other stuff,
1:17.9	but here we are with these, what's irreligion? Okay, irreligion, the Catechism will highlight
1:24.0	these three particular ways of sinning when it comes to this irreligion. One is tempting God
1:31.1	in words or deeds, sacrilege and semini. And semini is essentially trying to buy or sell
1:38.8	spiritual things. So, in case you're wondering, that is the definition of semini. We're also
1:44.6	looking at atheism. And that is that is a word that I imagine every single one of us are familiar
1:49.7	with. We're looking at the Catechism has four paragraphs on this and just kind of like unpacking
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