@#~%ing catholics!

At a very young age, it was ridiculously apparent that religion was the nexus of worldwide mass psychosis. And no religion had a greater insanity quotient than the Catholics. Whoo, boy. The luniest tenet of this looniest of religions was the idea that all you had to do to commit a sin was to THINK about doing it. Think about it, and you've already done it. To my humanity-loving mind, that was about as hideously oppressive and soul-destroying as tenets get.
So a rather frightening thought i've been rassling with over the past few years has been...what if them Catholics were actually, gulp, RIGHT on that one?
Take a deep breath, don't hyperventilate, i'm just speculating a little.
Now when i was younger, i was the pinnacle of the intellectual cynic. The rational empiricist. Champion of coincidence and enemy of superstition everywhere! But over the past decade i've been exploring the possibilty of a connectedness that runs through life, on a level beyond the five senses. A connective energy that could account for intuition, coincidence, maybe even ghosts. I've had seemingly sane friends who swear by sympathetic pains felt across a continent...i myself have had moments of bizarre connectedness like thinking of someone for the first time in years, only to get a phone call from them later that day. I've sometimes seemed able to shape events with my mind.
Somewhere i hear my younger mind screaming "Don't be a sappy sentimental simpleton! It's COINCIDENCE! Sigh, a once-promising mind embracing foofery..."
It's okay younger mind, i haven't gone over to the dark side yet.
But suppose that our thoughts do exist on an unseen, energetic, connected level? Wouldn't that mean that if we think a hateful thought, that thought is as real an "action" as any physical act? There are heavy ramifications, if so. I've always prided myself on my alert driving style, in which i imagine everything that could go wrong. But perhaps I'm helping to "create" such possibilities, by focusing on them? To be fair, i've never had any kind of accident under such circumstances. Or suppose i'm in love with someone, but issues of responsibility or fidelity require her and i to be apart? Might it not be destructive to the fabric of the universe, and to the people involved, to focus on my unrequited love?
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! The Catholics right? Truly, dark would become light and day become...well, okay it wouldn't be as bad as all that. And i'm still undecided about all this...there's a compelling counter-argument that says that denying your feelings is one of the surest paths to psychological/spiritual despair.
End of post.
What, you thought i was going to take a cheap parting shot at the trinity or original sin?
Too easy, we have bigger fish to fry.