How active is the devil?

[henrikhank]

This past weekend in my city area, a previously perfectly normal man walks into a Cracker Barrel with a gun and shoots his wife and two young daughters. As the man would not surrender, the police had to shoot him.

That’s what non-Americans think the North American police/cops are doing all the time, i.e. shooting people and sometimes killing them.
Wouldn’t it better if the Police had their own prayer team who could pray for the suspect before they even think of shooting him/her. I mean, it seems that when the devil is working with a suspect the only thing to that will work is praying, offering Mass and maybe using sacramentals. I don’t think the devil is afraid of guns.

 

[BluesPicker]

I think Marxism is a tool of the devil to shape society. Right now Christians are mocked openly, but in the future Christians will be imprisoned or killed openly.

 Sadly this is occuring in the present in many nations.  I believe you are correct.  People don't like to think that if all the spirits of the air would become opaque the sun would be blocked out.  While it is true that  we are responsible for our own sins,  Satan was the first to sin.   There

BP

 

[Lost_Wanderer]

It’s the whole nature vs. nurture theory; Natural instinct vs. learned behavior. Scientists have been trying to unlock THAT riddle for some time now, and we may never fully know what really causes “evil behavior.” What we DO know is that it happens, and happens way more often than you’d think.

The cause of evil behavior is Fallen Nature. The Church already cleared that up for us. Attributing every evil action to the activity of the Devil actually dispels any necessity for the sacrifice of Christ on the cross. The devil tempts us but he does not control us. It is still up to us whether or not to give in to the darkness within our hearts.