Comment Said In Anger?

[nsper7]

Earlier today, my dad and I were discussing politics–I am an adult, but my father and I live in the same city and so we talk a lot and spend time together–and we are both very conservative politically and see that our country (the US) is getting destroyed by liberalism. For example, abortion-on-demand and gay marriage, we are losing our freedom of speech possibly and we both have a real concern as to where America is going (i.e. Obama’s fascistic economic policies) and I said to my father something like, “Well, I have to be careful talking too much about politics because I get angry,” (my concern is getting into the sin of anger) and my father, who is not a Catholic just for clarification, told me there is nothing wrong with getting angry like that, but then I said that sometimes the anger causes me to wish “there would a be a new Hitler type that would exterminate the liberals”. Obviously, thinking it over, I didn’t really mean that, but it was just a way of expressing–inappropriately of course–my anger towards those seem bent on destroying the country and the Church. I worry that I committed a mortal sin since the comment was inappropriate and then I started thinking about it because I was worried I had committed a mortal sin.

 

[Tim_Kirchoff]

Exactly how does your comment fit the criteria for a mortal sin? It seems to me that what you said, though it may have been about a very grave matter, was not said with full intent or self-awareness. If there is a sin here, it is in that you continued in the discussion even though you knew you tend to get angry in discussing politics- but even that is rather minor, venial at worst.

 

[Lief_Erikson]

I don’t know if it would be considered “grave matter” or not, but I seriously doubt it.

Whether it is or not though, it can’t be mortal, because for it to have been a mortal sin, you would have had to have said that with a fully conscious, purposeful decision to defy Christ’s will. For a sin to be mortal, it must be of grave matter and committed with full knowledge that it’s against Christ’s will, with the conscious decision prior to the act to defy Christ in this anyway. This was a heat of the moment comment you made, though, rather than a premeditated one, so it seems impossible that it could be a mortal sin.