The Faith of a Fighter

Taken from an interview with MMA Legend, Bas Rutten, who is actually a "devout, daily rosary praying, Mass-attending Catholic":

A REAL man sacrifices himself for others. Praying right and learning about our faith and living right is HARD work. It is manly. The man who dedicates himself to his family, works hard, treats his wife like he treats himself (you are “one flesh”), who is there for his kids, THAT is a real man. Not a guy who plays video games all day, has no time for his family, doesn’t have a job, smokes weed all day, etc. because that guy is the loser.

I am not saying you can’t do that stuff, like video games, drinking in moderation, etc. Of course you can, but it has to be ordered and moderated.  It has to be virtuous for it to be manly. Moderation is the key thing here, as soon as any of those things take over your life, you are not a man anymore. You are actually a slave to those things, the Bible said, if you are a drunk: “You are enslaved”. That line has made me a moderate drinker, I was out of control for a while, I drank a lot and everybody knows this. But I also wanted to be always in control, so as soon as I read that I was a “slave to alcohol,” meaning, that alcohol was controlling me and my life and not the other way around, I simply didn’t want to be a slave anymore and beat it.  All sin is the same way.  We are slaves to it until we grow in virtue.

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