Page 85 - Romanticism: A Weapon of Satan

When you open pages of the newspaper, it is common to read of people who have
committed an act or a crime motivated by a moment's rage and emotionalism-a person
becomes suddenly angry and brings an end to a pleasant evening by assaulting a friend or
relative; another stabs a total stranger in the street because he looked at him "sideways";
yet another loses money on the stock market and kills his family; while someone else
suddenly becomes angry because he is the but of a joke and kills his friends. Because
they were overcome in a moment of unruly passion, they will have to spend the rest of
their lives in prison, but, more importantly, they have committed murder, a grievous sin. In
each of these examples, Satan has clouded the perpetrator's reason, and led him to act
according to his base passions and desires.