THE LAST SACRAMENT EXPOSED

The Sacrament of the Sick is the last of the Catholic seven sacraments, the seven rites that give salvation. It used to be known as extreme unction or the last sacrament. Now it is called the anointing of the sick.

This sacrament of the Catholics allegedly gives the grace to make the soul more pleasing to God, the grace of comfort and the remission of sins. It can even heal physically if that is God’s will.

Jesus forbade you to love yourself with all your heart.  You are not allowed to love your spouse, or your child, or your mother or father with all your heart.  You are to love them as yourself.  We often do ourselves harm.  When we harm others we harm ourselves for it leads to misery for ourselves.  So Jesus' teaching is uninspirational and really a burden to those who want to love.  The humanist should love humanity with all her heart.  The Christian following Jesus is expected to love God with all her or his heart as Jesus commanded it.  If you feel you love your mother more than yourself that is a sin.  If you want to love anybody more than yourself and that would make you happiest it is still vilified as a sin.  Such doctrines are vile.  The teaching of Christ masquerades as wisdom but it is simply vulgar religious bullying with a thick sugar-coating. 

 Imagine you are suffering horrendously on your deathbed.  You are permitted by the Church to ask God for death just so that you can be with him.  It is a sin to want death just because it will terminate the agony.   If belief in God comforts you on your deathbed, it is because you don't understand the harsh and troublesome implications of this belief.   The struggle to love God as he requires is only going to be additional torment on your deathbed.  A faith that infers that such torment is a great thing and to be inflicted on oneself is an evil faith.  The thought that everlasting torment may only be minutes away will be an additional torment.  The believer will possibly think this unlikely but irrational panic would only be expected as death looms.  A parent who knows her child is very unlikely to be inside the burning house will nevertheless panic and suffer as if she knew it was likely the child was there.  Its a normal reaction. 

The Church would say that wanting rid of the suffering would imply that you think you can't offer your heart to God in the midst of suffering with bravery.  It would say that it is foolish to want to be rid of the suffering for if you die you will have to face more of it in Purgatory!

The first Bible text that allegedly speaks of the sacrament is Mark 6:13. This simply says that the apostles expelled many demons, anointed the sick with oil and healed many. It doesn’t say that the oil cured anybody or got their sins forgiven. It would be that there were no definite or obvious miracles involved when Judas Iscariot was one of these healers. It seems doubtful that God would do miracles through a monster if that was what Judas was. The healings and exorcisms could have been indistinguishable from natural healings and recoveries from mental illness.

The second and last is James 5:14, 15 which says that when Church ministers anoint the sick and pray for them with faith their sins “shall be forgiven”. Catholics say that the shall proves that anointing of the sick is a sacrament that pardons sin. The shall does not back them up for even they say the anointing may forgive sins not shall – it all depends on whether the anointed is penitent. If pardon depends on this then perhaps the sins are only forgiven by virtue of the rite being an expression of repentance by the anointed (the anointed uses it as a sincere prayer for pardon its like a sign language prayer) and prayer for her or his deliverance from the guilt of sin by the minister? The passage does not attribute the pardoning to any sacramental power. It doesn’t say when the sins will be forgiven. A sacrament would require the forgiveness when the rite is undergone. James’ assertion that the prayer of faith shall save the sick man is disrespectful to God because God said that one prayer for the salvation of the world is enough. So, it is inaccurate to suggest that God needed the minister’s prayer to save and if James suggested that, then he didn’t know what he was talking about. James is saying that God vindictively refuses to forgive the sick unless he has the minister’s permission. And he never said that only ordained ministers could have the power to do it. Remember how Catholics teach that priests have powers that nobody else has – for example, they can put the Holy Spirit in you by giving you the sacrament of confirmation. They could have been lay elders.

Catholics are obliged to believe that the text teaches that the anointing is a sacrament for the Church used her alleged infallibility to make this clear. The Church says that she cannot add to what is taught in scripture and apostolic tradition which are the word of God. But her teaching cannot even be found in the second century never mind the first. She is not infallible.

The sacrament of last anointing is not in the Bible.

Rome claims that many dying sinners are stuck in mortal sin – cut off from God – until the priest arrives to rub some chrism on them. If God really cannot stand sin then he would not force people to stay in it even for a second with such an arrangement. If eternal punishment awaits them after death then God is diabolical and Jesus could not seriously be said to have died to save them.

Rome cannot say that the persons are granted the graces on account of the priests not being able to get to them yet because that would mean that the sacrament is not necessary and that the priest would be wiser to sit by his fire at home with a cup of cocoa. If the priest can’t or won’t go it is not the sick person’s fault and so the person is still entitled to the grace and will get it so it matters not if the priest goes or not. The Church claims that it is a mortal sin for the priest not to go.

“Those who are about to undergo an operation which may cause danger of death cannot receive Extreme Unction before the operation, unless their condition is so serious that there is already danger of death” (page 103, Life in Christ, Part III). It is hard to believe that God would create a sacrament for the sick to prepare them for death and nobody else.

The sacrament is totally pointless. Prayer can give all its graces except pardon in some circumstances. But Rome says that the sacrament of reconciliation, priests forgiving sins, will do for that.  The sacrament of the sick is mainly for healing the soul.  The sacrament of reconcilation supposedly does that anyway so what is another sacrament needed for?  People say they have been healed by prayer without the sacrament.  So what is the sacrament for?  It is totally unnecessary and so is just another typical Catholic superstition. 

A sacrament is a miracle and if the anointing of the sick is a sacrament then God does absurd miracles and if he is that silly who knows what is real? We might as well believe that the bucket of water put over the door that came down on us was put there by God and not a joker.

It is no answer to say that when God gives grace through prayer and reconciliation and that is not unnecessary miracle working. First, reconciliation itself is a preposterous and far from necessary miracle. A prayer of penitence should do. Responses to prayer are not necessary miracles. And answering a prayer for grace and making a rite necessary for grace for two different things. They are miracles yes but the latter is unnecessarily conferring miraculous power on a rite while the first sticks to essentials.

The doctrine of the sacrament commands priests to risk their lives to give the sacrament say in war conditions. An unnecessary sacrament that priests are asked to take such chances for is surely diabolical. The sacrament is evil. It is pro-unjust discrimination because those who were on the planes that were deliberately crashed into the World Trade Centre could not avail of the sacrament even if there had been enough priests around to administer it and only those who are dying of illness or old age can receive it validly. How low could one get to discriminate against the dying? The sacrament is supposed to heal the soul of sin and prepare one for death and no matter how much they want it they cannot have it and they are dying and the Church callously slaps them across the face. They are kicked when they are down. The Church cannot change this teaching for tradition says it is only for the sick who are in real danger of death and the Church puts dogma before decency.

The teaching that needing and being ready for the sacrament is no good for receiving the sacrament if there is no oil to do the anointing is an outrage.

The fanaticism of the Roman Catholic Church is plain to be seen. Is that what you want your children to grow up in? Do you want your children to esteem priests who make people desire and pray for the sacrament of the sick to be administered to them if they have the misfortune to be victims of a fatal hit and run when such a teaching will cause untold distress to the dying person in such a situation?

The anointing of the sick makes a fool out of the Lord. It originated with a brainwave. Priests who saw in it a marvellously effective way to get people to submit to them invented it. Many are so alarmed at the thought of dying without the sacrament that they attend Church faithfully and pay the priest every week.

Catholic Canon Law permits Catholic priests to administer the sacraments of Eucharist, Penance and Anointing of the Sick to an Anglican only when he or she is in danger of death or some other grave and pressing need, and provided the Anglican
in question cannot approach an Anglican priest, spontaneously asks for the sacrament, demonstrates the faith of the Catholic Church in respect of the sacrament and is properly disposed (Canon 844).  The priest who puts doctrines before a person's faith and before their peace of mind on their deathbed is a piece of shit.  Also, if somebody has had a massive heart attack the sight of a priest will certainly shock her or him and finish her or him off.

The sacrament shows the true colours of the Catholic Church.

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