Fé e Razão (importância da fé, valor da Fé, crer, acreditar, amar)
       Racionalismo, Ceticismo, Relativismo, Ateísmo, Ciência (razão humana, filosofia)
             SUPLEMENTO: Revelações privadas de videntes católicos sobre Ateísmo, Ciência e Racionalismo (Não reconhecidas oficialmente pela Igreja)
                   Revelação da vidente Maria Valtorta

 O Racionalismo é a heresia mais perniciosa porque é a mais sutil e penetrante de todas. É um vírus

Jesus says: ^[...] "The sinner whose mind is not corroded by the acid of rationalism has a ninety percent chance of being able to receive the Word and find Life. The rationalist has only a ten percent chance, and even less, of keeping himself capable of salvation through the Word.
"Rationalism is worse than couchgrass. When its action is seen, at the moment when everything concerning the earth and men is made known, this heresy will be seen to have been the most pernicious one because it is the most subtle and penetrating of all. It is like a gas. You absorb it, and it kills you, but you don’t see it; you sometimes don’t even smell it, or, since this smell is pleasant, it is breathed in by you with pleasure. Rationalism is just like that.
"The major heresies have contained two good things: first of all, they were originated by a faith. As erroneous as it may seem to you, as worthy of condemnation as you may think. But still a faith. They have thus had their martyrs, their tears, and their struggles to assert themselves, and upright souls have over the centuries embellished them with lights of holiness whose only disadvantage is to have blossomed on a wicked tree not grafted onto Christ. The second good thing about heresies is the loud noise produced by them, whereby whoever did not want to belong to them knew how to act so as not to belong to them. The struggles with the Church and with States were an indication to Catholics; they constituted a boundary beyond which one went only knowingly.
"In rationalism this is lacking, and it penetrates unnoticed even where it is thought that it cannot enter. It enters through a thousand foramens, like a snake. It dresses in licit — indeed, admirable — clothing and acts underneath it, but against it. It is a virus. When one notices it, it has already spread through one’s blood, and it is hard to get free of it.
"The reaction of sin is violent under the ray of my Mercy. But that of rationalism is nil. Like a burning glass, it makes the way to grace impassable and rejects it. Indeed, it turns it into a harmful burning to finish giving itself its own condemnation.
"The rationalist makes the things of God serve his purpose. He does not make himself serve God’s purpose. He bends, explains, and uses the Word in the light — poor light — of his disturbed mind and, like a madman who no longer knows the value of things and words, he gives them the sort of meanings which can emerge only from one whom the extremely crafty action of Satan has sterilized.
"There are rationalists and rationalists.
"I will begin with the greatest. The ‘supermen.’ The deniers of God. They want to explain creation, miracles, and the divinity according to their concepts filled with human pride.
"Where there is pride, God is not present. Be sure of this. Where there is pride, Faith is not present. Satan is there, and Satan is the most skilled juggler in seducing man and making the leaf of tinfoil picked up in the mud appear to him to be pure gold.
"These deniers of God, who think they degrade themselves by humbly accepting what they are unable to explain ^{[the things of God]} through their mental capacity alone and have slain the capacity to love in themselves, are the giants of rationalism.
"I am not giving a speech to men and thus do not cite names. You can include the names on your own. For Me they are dead stars which have plunged into the mud in bits and pieces.
They no longer have a name or have one alone which shall be engraved in fire upon their arrogant brows and their hearts more arid than flint on the Day of Justice. They spend their lives devastating. They are worse than an avalanche or a hurricane, worse than dementia, worse than a fever. They kill wherever they arrive.
"The Word does not descend at all into these. Too many things remain upon them to act as an obstacle to the Word. They belong to the category of the ‘spiritually Dead.’ Rebellious and scandalous.
"The second category are the humanly learned. These do not deny God. But over divine simplicity — which has become such so that even the humblest can grasp it in the light of love — they set a whole thicket of human erudition. They dress themselves in it like peacocks proud of their tails with a hundred eyes, and, like peacocks, they are beautiful only in appearance: they are unable to walk; they are unable to sing on the way and in the praises of the Lord.
^[...] "The third category involves those who have paved their hearts with the stones of the rationalism of others to make them less ignorant. They are the worshippers of human idols.
They are unable to worship God with their whole self, but are able to remain ecstatic before a poor man who poses as a superman. They close the door to the Divine Word with distrust, but accept the explanations of one of their fellow men who is famous for being learned.
^[...] "The fourth category is that of the imprudent. They are open ways over which everything passes. They do not surround themselves with a holy defense of faith and fidelity to their God.
They receive the Word with great joy and open themselves to receive it, but they also open themselves to receive any doctrine under the specious pretext that one must be condescending.
"Yes. So condescending with one’s brothers and sisters. Not to disdain anyone.

  Vide também Vida e Obra de Maria Valtorta

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Nota sobre a fonte: Maria Valtorta foi uma mística católica italiana. Durante sua vida, ela foi agraciada com revelações de Jesus Cristo sobre o Evangelho, e também de Nossa Senhora, do Espírito Santo e de vários santos e anjos.