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- PART THREE: LIFE IN CHRIST
- SECTION TWO THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
- CHAPTER ONE YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND
- Article 1 THE FIRST COMMANDMENT
- III. 'You Shall Have No Other Gods Before Me'
- Article 1 THE FIRST COMMANDMENT
- CHAPTER ONE YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND
- SECTION TWO THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
III. 'You Shall Have No Other Gods Before Me'
2110 The first commandmentforbidshonoringgods other than the one Lord who has revealed himself to his people. It proscribessuperstition and irreligion. Superstition in some senserepresents a perverseexcess of religion; irreligion is the vicecontrary by defect to the virtue of religion.
2111Superstition is the deviation of religiousfeeling and of the practices this feelingimposes. It can even affect the worship we offer the trueGod, e.g., when one attributes an importance in some waymagical to certainpractices otherwise lawful or necessary. To attribute the efficacy of prayers or of sacramentalsigns to their mereexternalperformance, apart from the interiordispositions that they demand, is to fall into superstition.41
2112 The first commandmentcondemnspolytheism. It requiresman neither to believe in, nor to venerate, other divinities than the one trueGod. Scriptureconstantlyrecalls this rejection of 'idols, (of) silver and gold, the work of men's hands. They have mouths, but do not speak; eyes, but do not see.' These emptyidols make their worshippersempty: 'Those who make them are like them; so are all who trust in them.'42God, however, is the 'livingGod'43 who giveslife and intervenes in history.
2113Idolatry not only refers to falsepaganworship. It remains a constanttemptation to faith. Idolatryconsists in divinizing what is not God. Mancommitsidolatry whenever he honors and reveres a creature in place of God, whether this be gods or demons (for example, satanism), power, pleasure, race, ancestors, the state, money, etc. Jesussays, 'You cannot serveGod and mammon.'44 Many martyrsdied for not adoring 'the Beast'45refusing even to simulate such worship. Idolatryrejects the uniqueLordship of God; it is therefore incompatible with communion with God.46
2114Humanlifefinds its unity in the adoration of the one God. the commandment to worship the Lord alone integratesman and saves him from an endlessdisintegration. Idolatry is a perversion of man's innatereligioussense. An idolater is someone who 'transfers his indestructiblenotion of God to anything other than God.'47
Divination and magic
2115God can reveal the future to his prophets or to other saints. Still, a soundChristianattitudeconsists in puttingoneselfconfidently into the hands of Providence for whatever concerns the future, and giving up all unhealthycuriosity about it. Improvidence, however, can constitute a lack of responsibility.
2116 All forms of divination are to be rejected: recourse to Satan or demons, conjuring up the dead or other practicesfalselysupposed to 'unveil' the future.48Consultinghoroscopes, astrology, palmreading, interpretation of omens and lots, the phenomena of clairvoyance, and recourse to mediums all conceal a desire for power over time, history, and, in the last analysis, other humanbeings, as well as a wish to conciliatehiddenpowers. They contradict the honor, respect, and lovingfear that we owe to God alone.
2117 All practices of magic or sorcery, by which one attempts to tameoccultpowers, so as to place them at one's service and have a supernaturalpower over others - even if this were for the sake of restoring their health - are gravelycontrary to the virtue of religion. These practices are even more to be condemned when accompanied by the intention of harming someone, or when they have recourse to the intervention of demons. Wearingcharms is also reprehensible. Spiritism often impliesdivination or magicalpractices; the Church for her partwarns the faithful against it. Recourse to so-calledtraditionalcures does not justify either the invocation of evilpowers or the exploitation of another's credulity.
2118God's first commandmentcondemns the mainsins of irreligion: temptingGod, in words or deeds, sacrilege, and simony.
2119TemptingGodconsists in putting his goodness and almightypower to the test by word or deed. Thus Satantried to induceJesus to throw himself down from the Temple and, by this gesture, forceGod to act.49JesusopposedSatan with the word of God: 'You shall not put the LORD your God to the test.' 50 The challengecontained in such tempting of Godwounds the respect and trust we owe our Creator and Lord. It always harborsdoubt about his love, his providence, and his power.51
2120Sacrilegeconsists in profaning or treatingunworthily the sacraments and other liturgicalactions, as well as persons, things, or placesconsecrated to God. Sacrilege is a gravesinespecially when committed against the Eucharist, for in this sacrament the trueBody of Christ is made substantiallypresent for us.52
2121Simony is defined as the buying or selling of spiritualthings.53 To Simon the magician, who wanted to buy the spiritualpower he saw at work in the apostles, St. Peterresponded: 'Your silverperish with you, because you thought you could obtainGod's gift with money!'54Peter thus held to the words of Jesus: 'You received without pay, give without pay.'55 It is impossible to appropriate to oneselfspiritualgoods and behave toward them as their owner or master, for they have their source in God. One can receive them only from him, without payment.
2122 The minister should ask nothing for the administration of the sacraments beyond the offeringsdefined by the competentauthority, always being careful that the needy are not deprived of the help of the sacraments because of their poverty.'56 The competentauthoritydetermines these 'offerings' in accordance with the principle that the Christianpeopleought to contribute to the support of the Church's ministers. 'The laborerdeserves his food.'57
2123 'Many . . . of our contemporaries either do not at all perceive, or explicitlyreject, this intimate and vitalbond of man to God. Atheism must therefore be regarded as one of the most seriousproblems of our time.'58
2124 The name 'atheism' covers many very differentphenomena. One commonform is the practicalmaterialism which restricts its needs and aspirations to space and time. Atheistichumanismfalselyconsidersman to be 'an end to himself, and the solemaker, with supremecontrol, of his own history.'59 Another form of contemporaryatheismlooks for the liberation of man through economic and socialliberation. 'It holds that religion, of its very nature, thwarts such emancipation by raisingman's hopes in a futurelife, thus both deceiving him and discouraging him from working for a betterform of life on earth.'60
2125 Since it rejects or denies the existence of God, atheism is a sin against the virtue of religion.61 The imputability of this offense can be significantlydiminished in virtue of the intentions and the circumstances. 'Believers can have more than a little to do with the rise of atheism. To the extent that they are careless about their instruction in the faith, or present its teachingfalsely, or even fail in their religious, moral, or sociallife, they must be said to conceal rather than to reveal the truenature of God and of religion.'62
2126Atheism is often based on a falseconception of humanautonomy, exaggerated to the point of refusing any dependence on God.63 Yet, 'to acknowledgeGod is in no way to oppose the dignity of man, since such dignity is grounded and brought to perfection in God..'64 'For the Churchknowsfull well that her message is in harmony with the most secretdesires of the humanheart.'65
2127Agnosticismassumes a number of forms. In certaincases the agnosticrefrains from denyingGod; instead he postulates the existence of a transcendent being which is incapable of revealing itself, and about which nothing can be said. In other cases, the agnostic makes no judgment about God's existence, declaring it impossible to prove, or even to affirm or deny.
2128Agnosticism can sometimes include a certainsearch for God, but it can equallyexpressindifferentism, a flight from the ultimatequestion of existence, and a sluggishmoralconscience. Agnosticism is all too often equivalent to practicalatheism.
41Cf. ⇒Mt23:16-22.
42⇒Ps115:4-5, 8; cf. ⇒Isa44:9-20; ⇒Jer10:1-16; ⇒Dan14:1-30; ⇒Bar6; ⇒Wis13: 1- ⇒15:19.
43⇒Josh3:10; ⇒Ps42:3; etc.
44⇒Mt6:24.
45Cf. ⇒Rev13-⇒14.
46Cf. ⇒Gal5:20; ⇒Eph5:5.
47Origen, ContraCelsum2, 40: PG11, 861.
48Cf. ⇒Deut18:10; ⇒Jer29:8.
49Cf. ⇒Lk4:9[ETML:C/].
50⇒Deut6:16.
51Cf. ⇒1Cor10:9; ⇒Ex17:2-7; ⇒Ps95:9.
52Cf. ⇒CIC, cann. 1367; ⇒1376.
53Cf. ⇒Acts8:9-24.
54⇒Acts8:20.
55⇒Mt10:8; cf. already ⇒Isa55:1.
56⇒CIC, can. 848.
57⇒Mt10:10; cf. ⇒Lk10:7; ⇒2Cor9:5-18; ⇒1Tim5:17-18.
58GS19 # 1.
59GS20 # 2.
60GS20 # 2.
61Cf. ⇒Rom1:18.
62GS19 # 3.
63Cf. GS20 # 1.
64GS21 # 3.
65GS21 # 7.