Blasphemous Thoughts

[DanishGuy]

Hey there.
I get heinous blasphemous thoughts quite often. I know they aren’t sinful if they are involuntary, however sometimes (in frustration) I sort of dwell on them and think them through instead of suppressing them which can also be hard.

I suffer from OCD also.

However I am not completely innocent in this matter. I used to expose myself to a lot of blasphemous and darkness as a non-Christian that is.
So I guess some of those images still are with me.

Please pray for me. I am seeking to convert ASAP.
I will be meeting a Priest first time this Friday.

 

[Bookcat]

(I will re-post a post I posted before - general remarks about “unwanted thoughts”)

UNWANTED THOUGHTS

All sorts of thoughts can happen to us out of the blue…(not sought etc)

The fact that a thought happened to one- does not mean per se there was any sin.

And for mortal sin one needs not only grave matter, full knowledge and deliberate (complete) consent…

Just cause a thought happened to you does not mean there was any sin. Let alone mortal sin.

Just calmly turn to something good…

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Now…

For the next few moments --try real hard NOT to think of an Apple.

then scroll down.

What did you think of?

An apple.

Even though your will was against it (you did not want to think of an apple!)

Now back to unwanted thoughts…

The more you fear and try hard not to have them…the more they will likely come and bother you.

The best thing to do with such thoughts is not to fight them directly --not fear that they will come—simply do not consent and simply and calmly turn to something else…(or it may be best to keep doing the good thing one is doing…like they come out of the blue when your at work …keep working…keep praying …etc…calmly ignoring them…turning to something good…)

Ignore such unwanted thoughts like one would ignore a hissing goose or a barking dog. One does not stop to argue with a hissing goose or a barking dog does one? No one keeps on walking…

(as noted above the image there comes from a Carthusian Monk from centuries ago…)

Ignore such unwanted thoughts and do not fear them…just calmly turn to something good.

 

[e_c]

Hey there.
I get heinous blasphemous thoughts quite often. I know they aren’t sinful if they are involuntary, however sometimes (in frustration) I sort of dwell on them and think them through instead of suppressing them which can also be hard.

I suffer from OCD also.

However I am not completely innocent in this matter. I used to expose myself to a lot of blasphemous and darkness as a non-Christian that is.
So I guess some of those images still are with me.

Please pray for me. I am seeking to convert ASAP.
I will be meeting a Priest first time this Friday.

Suppression is not the method. Nor is accepting them. Both feed the problem.

Pay them as little attention as possible. This is the key to breaking the OCD reinforcement chain, it seems to me.

Also look into something called the “high place phenomenon.” It’s something I’ve become aware of recently that really helps explain this stuff.