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Article II: On Irreligiosity

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  1. Irreligiosity, or impiety, is a special irreverence which is inflicted upon God, either immediately in himself, or mediately in sacred persons or things. - It is inflicted upon God immediately through tempting God, through blasphemy, through perjury and perfidy in promises; but mediately through sacrilege and simony.

Moreover, of these various species of irreligiosity three pertain to the second precept of the Decalogue, insofar as it is negative: namely blasphemy, perjury, and perfidy in promises; but the other three, by which due subjection to God, or fidelity, is denied, pertain to this first precept.

Therefore there must be treated: 1. of tempting God; 2. of sacrilege; 3. of simony.

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