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Jocelyn
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Is one mortal sin more deadly than another. For example is engaging in homosexual acts more deadly that engaging in premarital sex?
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legeorge
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Isn’t mortal sin deadly by definition? Mortal sin is mortal sin. We should try to stay away from it all. Unfortunately, homosexuality gets more press because the activists are forcing it down our throats constantly. And even though chastity programs in the schools are sometimes hot topics, and sexual activity in teenagers is looked at sometimes, it doesn’t get as much attention because there is no pre-marital sex lobby out there throwing money at lawyers and judges to pass new laws from the bench.
Of course, sexual sins aren’t the only mortal sins out there, and as Catholics, we should be concerned with modeling ourselves after Jesus, avoiding sin, and teaching our children to do the same. Change the world one person at a time.
Of course, sexual sins aren’t the only mortal sins out there, and as Catholics, we should be concerned with modeling ourselves after Jesus, avoiding sin, and teaching our children to do the same. Change the world one person at a time.
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mlchance
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The natural consequence of a culture that has come to widely accept the idea that premarital sex itself is not sinful, but, if anything, is actually a virtuous expression of love and freedom.
– Mark L. Chance.
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Crow
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Right and wrong, good and evil, virtue and sin; these things don’t change because people ‘feel’ differently about them.
Sin will always remain sin, virtue shall always remain virtue, never will can they be exchanged for one another and to do so is a distortion of reality. If a society as a whole believe in the acceptance of such a condition then you can almost start talking about a collective insanity (the world’s gone mad! Like we never heard that one before
).As far as the particular example here, homosexuality;
It is a mortal sin.
Mortal sin can be mittigated through ‘ignorance that is not one’s own fault’ and/or ‘inconquerable ignorance’. Which, if a person is afflicted by these ignorance and commits homosexual acts, although he/she has committed a mortal sin, he/she is not necessarily dammed.
Making a quick search in the CCC online will reveal more detailed info on homosexuality and ingorance;
scborromeo.org/ccc/ccc_toc2.htm
See paragraphs 1790-1810, sectioin IV; ERRONEOUS JUDGEMENT
for example.
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MommaKat
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One thing I suggest is that you read what was revealed by Mary at Fatima. More people fall into hell because of sexual than by any others sin and because there is no one to pray and do sacrifices for them.
It is all sexual sin, pre-marital, lust, adultry, pornography, strip club, and homosexuality. So it is not Catholics it is God.
It is all sexual sin, pre-marital, lust, adultry, pornography, strip club, and homosexuality. So it is not Catholics it is God.
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Gabriel_Gale
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Is cyanide worse than a bullet in the head?
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Jennifer123
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I agree - this is why I think the Catholic position is so much more nuanced and wise. Of course I’m biased!
But I did mention in discussion one day with a Protestant about all sins of a sexual nature, homosexuality just being one, and it seemed it was the first time they had thought about it that way before?
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Siena
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I think it is one step worse.
Premarital sex (with a condom) - 1. not open to life 2. degrading the dignity of the other person 3. not in the context of a marriage
Homosexual sex - 1. not open to life 2. degrading the dignity of the other person 3. not in the context of a marriage (and can never be) 4. disordered/unnatural
Homosexual sex adds the complications of NEVER being in the context of a sacramental marriage, AND is, of itself, a disordered action.
Hetrosexual sex in and of itself is not disordered, it’s only so if done outside of marriage, or with contraception.
That said- I think the murder of innocents is the worst sin- in and out of the womb.
Premarital sex (with a condom) - 1. not open to life 2. degrading the dignity of the other person 3. not in the context of a marriage
Homosexual sex - 1. not open to life 2. degrading the dignity of the other person 3. not in the context of a marriage (and can never be) 4. disordered/unnatural
Homosexual sex adds the complications of NEVER being in the context of a sacramental marriage, AND is, of itself, a disordered action.
Hetrosexual sex in and of itself is not disordered, it’s only so if done outside of marriage, or with contraception.
That said- I think the murder of innocents is the worst sin- in and out of the womb.
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tom.wineman
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It would be of great interest and only fair if you told us your view first.
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fix
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This is a link to Aquinas:
Gravity of a sin depends more on the abuse of a thing than on the omission of the right use. Wherefore among sins against nature, the lowest place belongs to the sin of uncleanness, which consists in the mere omission of copulation with another. While the most grievous is the sin of bestiality, because use of the due species is not observed. Hence a gloss on Gn. 37:2, “He accused his brethren of a most wicked crime,” says that “they copulated with cattle.” After this comes the sin of sodomy, because use of the right sex is not observed. Lastly comes the sin of not observing the right manner of copulation, which is more grievous if the abuse regards the “vas” than if it affects the manner of copulation in respect of other circumstances.
newadvent.org/summa/315412.htm
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