WHAT IS A SACRAMENT? and WHY DOES IT SOUND LIKE MAGIC?

A sacrament is a rite that pictures a grace from God that really gives this grace. For example, baptism pictures cleansing from the sin we were born with and baptism really causes this cleansing. The word sacrament comes from a word meaning oath. The sacraments involve oaths that bind you to God and thus they are immoral for unnecessary oaths are bad and people who don't take such oaths can be often better than those who do. And it involves you signing up to a long winded faith that hides its dark side from you. Christians are not told about how Jesus was pro-religious fanaticism.
 
Magic or the occult is the use of non-physical or supernatural or spiritual power to affect the physical.
 
A sacrament is an occult spell. Believers say it is not because instead of working like magic, the sacrament only works on a person who wants to receive the grace and who has faith. But that is like saying that a love spell is not a spell at all if the one you want to love you has to consent to letting the spell work! But witches are clear that spells cast on another do not work unless the person lets them work. The notion that the sacraments are not magic for administering any sacrament does not guarantee it will bear fruit is contrary to Catholic doctrine. The Church says the problem when no fruit appears is that the person is blocking the sacrament from working on her or him. So it is not the sacrament that fails to bear fruit but the person.
 
Many Christians believe that you should not do the Ouija Board or meditate for you don't know what kind of spirits or supernatural influence you are opening yourself up to. And they have the nerve to inflict sacraments on their babies and eat communion wafers!
 
THE DOCTRINE OF INTENTION

Rome has infallibly taught that no one can give a sacrament unless they mean to permit the Holy Spirit to let his grace flow for God’s sake (Secrets of Romanism, page 105-107, Council of Trent, Session 7, Canon 11). It is not enough just to do the rite (page 90, 91, Dawn or Twilight?). This intention must be present the second the rite is performed.
 
Nobody knows if the sacraments they get really work for the minister may have intended to simply pretend to be giving the sacrament. What if the minister intends to pass on satanic energies through the sacrament? When you consider how most Christians in the past believed that the Catholic Church was antichrist and the occult whore of Babylon and how believable that claim was in the light of the behaviour of the Vatican and the prelates of the Church you will worry. What if priests and bishops were glad to think themselves disciples of Satan and attempted to pass on his alleged powers and influences through going through the motions of giving Catholic sacraments? Or they could have though they were giving such powers THROUGH THE REAL SACRAMENTS!

Roman Catholic sacramentalism is not only irrational but also unchristian. It advocates unjust discrimination against those who are ordained over the Internet or who ordain themselves.

Its superstition and therefore occult. Sacraments and superstitions thrive on irrational fear and both are magical.
 
Sacraments give false help to become the best person one can become. It is only by transforming ourselves by self-love that we will succeed. To depend on sacraments is worse and more damaging than depending on charlatans who claim to be mediums and fortunetellers. It damages our hearts not just our lives.
 
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