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Delving into the writings of the Holy Fathers, the French theologian Jean-Claude Larchet underscores their teaching according to which illness is the natural and necessary effect of the primordial sin, prolonged and amplified by personal sins and passions. Far from being merely a punishment for sin, for the person who manages to discover its profound spiritual meanings, suffering is revealed to be a path to salvation and perfection.
-Fr. Ioan C. Teșu
But here steps in Satan, the eternal rebel, the first freethinker and the emancipator of worlds. He makes man ashamed of his bestial ignorance and obedience; he emancipates him, stamps upon his brow the seal of liberty and humanity, in urging him to disobey and eat of the fruit of knowledge.
Mikhail Bakunin
